Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology(2021ZD0300703);National Natural Science Foundation of China(62101320);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2019SHZDZX01);Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Project(22310701D)。
Quantum key distribution(QKD)has been proven to be theoretically unconditionally secure.However,any theoretical security proof relies on certain assumptions.In QKD,the assumption in the theoretical proof is that the s...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.12304340,12074241,11929401,and 52130204);the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant Nos.20501130600,21JC1402600,and 21JC1402700);the Shanghai Pujiang Program (Grant No.23PJ1403200);the Key Research Project of Zhejiang Laboratory (Grant No.2021PE0AC02);the startup funding of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen (Grant No.UDF01002563)。
While non-Hermiticity provokes intriguing phenomena without Hermitian counterparts, e.g., the skin effect and the breakdown of bulk-boundary correspondence, attracting extensive attention both in fundamental physics a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11847061);Domestic Visiting Program for Young and Middle-aged Teachers in Shanghai Universities.
We investigate the behavior of edge modes in the presence of different edge terminations and long-range(LR)hopping.Here,we mainly focus on such model crystals with two different types of structures(type I:“…-P-Q-P-Q...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11874272);Science Specialty Program of Sichuan University (Grant No.2020SCUNL210)。
We study the one-dimensional tight-binding model with quasi-periodic disorders,where the quasi-period is tuned to be large compared to the system size.It is found that this type of model with large quasi-periodic diso...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11875034);the Major Program of Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.20224ACB201007);financial support from the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Special Artificial Microstructure Materials and Technology。
We consider a quantum Brayton refrigeration cycle consisting of two isobaric and two adiabatic processes,using an ideal Bose gas of finite particles confined in a harmonic trap as its working substance.Quite generally...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62201620);the Outstanding Youth Program of Education Department of Hunan(Grant No.21B0228);Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.kq2202293);Hunan Students’Platform for innovation and entrepreneurship training program(Grant No.S202210538069);the Research Fund of Central South University of Forestry and Technology(Grant No.1121001703).
A hybrid linear amplifier is inserted at the output of the source-in-the-middle distribution protocol to overcome the shortcomings of the transmission distance.The modified protocol aims to maintain a high key rate fo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12274223);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BK20211145);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.020414380182);the Key Research and Development Program of Nanjing Jiangbei New Aera(Grant No.ZDYD20210101);the Program for Innovative Talents and Entrepreneurs in Jiangsu(Grant No.JSSCRC2021484);the Program of Songshan Laboratory(Included in the management of Major Science and Technology Program of Henan Province)(Grant No.221100210800)。
Quantum secret sharing(QSS)is one of the basic communication primitives in future quantum networks which addresses part of the basic cryptographic tasks of multiparty communication and computation.Nevertheless,it is a...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFA0305800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12174387 and 11804337);the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(Grant No.XDB28000000);the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association;supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11975024 and 62175001);the Anhui Provincial Supporting Program for Excellent Young Talents in Colleges and Universities(Grant No.gxyq ZD2019023)。
The nondivergence of the generalized Gr¨uneisen ratio(GR)at a quantum critical point(QCP)has been proposed to be a universal thermodynamic signature of self-duality.We study how the Kramers–Wannier-type self-duality...
Project supported by the Botswana International University of Science and Technology Research Initiation(Grant Nos.R00015 and S00100)。
We present a three-party reference frame independent quantum key distribution protocol which can be implemented without any alignment of reference frames between the sender and the receiver.The protocol exploits entan...
This work is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2033—Projekt-nummer 390677874;This project has received funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking(JU)project UltimateGaN under grant agreement No.826392;The J.U.receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and Austria,Belgium,Germany,Italy,Slovakia,Spain,Sweden,Norway,Switzerland D.W.and C.Vd.W.were supported by the US Department of Energy(DOE),Office of Science,Basic Energy Sciences(BES)under award No.DE-SC0010689.
The repeated slab approach has become a de facto standard to accurately describe surface properties of materials by density functional theory calculations with periodic boundary conditions.For materials exhibiting spo...