Liang Xu, Yue Pan, Hui Li, Ben Wang, Aonan Zhang, Ying Dong, Lijian Zhang, Direct characterization of quantum dynamics viageneralized weak values, Science Advances, 12, eaeb7304 (2026).
Qilin Yu, Ben Wang, Kaimin Zheng, Minghao Mi, Hui Li, and Lijian Zhang, Dose-efficient quantum phase estimation in lossy optical interferometry, Optica 13, 1130-1136 (2026)
Yuguo Shao, Yong-Chang Li, Fuchuan Wei, Hao Zhan, Ben Wang, Zhaohui Wei, Lijian Zhang, and Zhengwei Liu, Variational graphical quantum error correction codes, Communications Physics (2026).
Jiaqi Liu, Xinyu Chen, Liang Xu, and Lijian Zhang, Accrediting outputs of noisy all-optical quantum circuits, Chinese Optics Letters, 24(4), 042701 (2026).
Shufan Chen, Yubin Fan, Hao Li, Xiaodong Qiu, Ben Wang, Lijian Zhang, Shumin Xiao, and Din Ping Tsai, Meta-device for sensing subwavelength lateral displacement, Light: Science & Applications, 15, 68 (2026).
Ben Wang, Minghao Mi, Huangqiuchen Wang, Qian Xie, Lijian Zhang, Experimental Joint Estimation of Phase and Phase Diffusion Via Deterministic Bell Measurements, Advanced Science, 13, e18375 (2026).
Zhongjian Zhang, Ben Wang, Kaimin Zheng, and Lijian Zhang, Quantum-enhanced distributed sensing using nonlinear optical networks, Physical Review A, 112, 062403 (2025).
Hao Zhan, Liang Xu, and Lijian Zhang, Research Progress of Multiphoton Interference in Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning (Invited), Acta Optica Sinica, 45, 2027020 (2025).
Chenyu Hu , Ben Wang, Jiandong Zhang, Kunxu Wang, Huigen Liu, Jilin Zhou, and Lijian Zhang, Superresolution of unequal-brightness thermal sources for stellar interferometry, Physical Review A, 112, 032609 (2025).
Jiandong Zhang, Kaimin Zheng, Ben Wang, and Lijian Zhang, Performance advantage of quantum illumination using symmetric and asymmetric hypothesis testings in lossy environments, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 58, 225301 (2025).
Qianyi Wang, Ben Wang, Jun Wang, Lijian Zhang, 'A geometric quantum speed limit: theoretical insights and photonics implementation.', Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 68, 9: 290311 (2025);
Minghao Mi, Ben Wang, and Lijian Zhang, Approaching the Multiparameter Quantum Cramér-Rao Bound via Classical Correlation and Entangling Measurements, Physical Review Letters, 135, 110804 (2025).
Hui Li, Jie Xie, Hyukjoon Kwon, Yixin Zhao, M. S. Kim, Lijian Zhang, Experimental demonstration of generalized quantum fluctuation theorem in the presence of coherence, Science Advances, 11, eadq6014 (2025).
Qianyi Wang, Ben Wang, Jun Wang, Lijian Zhang, Quantum geometric tensor for mixed states based on the covariant derivative, Chinese Physical Letters 42, 070603 (2025).
Hao Zhan, Ben Wang, Minghao Mi, Jie Xie, Liang Xu, Aonan Zhang, Lijian Zhang, Experimental benchmarking of quantum state overlap estimation strategies with photonic systems, Light: Science & Applications, 14, 83 (2025).
Haochen Li, Kaimin Zheng, Rui Ge, Labao Zhang, Lijian Zhang, Weiji He, Biao Zhang, Miao Wu, Ben Wang, Minghao Mi, Yanqiu Guan, Jingrou Tan, Hao Wang, Qi Chen, Xuecou Tu, Qingyuan Zhao, Xiaoqing Jia, Jian Chen, Lin kang, Qian Chen and Peiheng Wu. Noise-tolerant LiDAR approaching the standard quantum-limited precision.Light: Science & Application, 14, 138 (2025).
Ben Wang, Kaimin Zheng, Qian Xie, Aonan Zhang, Liang Xu, Lijian Zhang, Achieving the Multiparameter Quantum Cramér-Rao Bouond with Antiunitary Symmetry, Physical Review Letters, 133, 210801 (2024).
Liang Xu , Lijian Zhang, Progress and perspectives on weak-value amplification, Progress in Quantum Electronics, 96, 100518 (2024).
Zhi-Xiang Li, Dong Zhu, Jiang-Shan Tang, Ming-Yuan Chen, Ya-Ping Ruan, Jian-Ji Liu, Han Zhang, Peng Chen, Ke-Yu Xia, Li-Jian Zhang, and Yan-Qing Lu, Quantum ghost imaging of a vector field, Optics Express, 32, 5898-5907 (2024).
Ben Wang and Lijian Zhang, Progress in Photonics Quantum Metrology (Invited), Chinese Journal of Lasers, 51, 0112001 (2024).
Liang Xu, Mingti Zhou, Runxia Tao, Zhipeng Zhong, Ben Wang, Zhiyong Cao, Hongkuan Xia, Qianyi Wang, Hao Zhan, Aonan Zhang, Shang Yu, Nanyang Xu, Ying Dong, Changliang Ren, Lijian Zhang, Resource-efficient Direct Characterization of General Density Matrix, Physical Review Letters, 132, 030201 (2024).
Lin Zhou, Ben Wang, Yan Li, Weiji He, Lijian Zhang, Approaching the quantum resolution limit for two partially coherent optical point sources, Third International Computing Imaging Conference (CITA 2023), 12921, 1242-1248 (2023).
Hongkuan Xia, Liang Xu, Lijian Zhang, Direct tomography of high-dimensional entangled states, Third International Computing Imaging Conference (CITA 2023), 12921, 1165-1169 (2023)
Mingchen Liu, Lijian Zhang, Haixing Miao, Adaptive protocols for SU (1, 1) interferometers to achieve ab initio phase estimation at the Heisenberg limit, New Journal of Physics, 25, 103051 (2023).
Hua-Ying Liu, Minghao Shang, Xiaoyi Liu, Ying Wei, Minghao Mi, Lijian Zhang, Yan-Xiao Gong, Zhenda Xie, Shining Zhu, Deterministic N-photon state generation using lithium niobate on insulator device, Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2, 016003-016003 (2023.
Chenyu Hu, Liang Xu, Ben Wang, Zhiwen Li, Yipeng Zhang, Yong Zhang&Lijian Zhang, Experimental 3D super-localization with Laguerre-Gaussian modes. Quantum Frontiers 2, 1 (2023).
Hao Zhan, Aonan Zhang, Minghao Mi, Jie Xie, Ben Wang, and Lijian Zhang, Experimental Comparison of Strategies for Quantum State Overlap Estimation. in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023), paper FM4A.8 (2023).
Ben Wang, Liang Xu, Hongkuan Xia, Aonan Zhang, Kaimin Zheng and Lijian Zhang, Quantum-limited resolution of partially coherent sources. Chinese Optics Letters 21, 042601 (2023).
Xinyu Chen, Feixiang Xu, Huichao Xu, and Lijian Zhang, Efficient tomography of coherent optical detectors. Physical Review A 106, L051702 (2022).
Ningping Cao, Jie Xie, Aonan Zhang, Shi-Yao Hou,Lijian Zhang and Bei Zeng, Neural networks for quanutm inverse problems, New Journal of Physics, 24 063002 (2022).
Yang Liu, Kaimin Zheng, Haijun Kang, Dongmei Han, Meihong Wang, Lijian Zhang, Xiaolong Su and Kunchi Peng, Distillation of Gaussian Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering with noiseless linear amplification, npj Quantum Information 8, 38 (2022).
Liang Xu, Huichao Xu, Jie Xie, Hui Li, Lin Zhou, Feixiang Xu, Lijian Zhang, Direct characterization of coherence of quantum detectors by sequential measurements, Advanced Photonics, 3(6), 066001 (2021).
Peng Yin, WenHao Zhang, Liang Xu, ZeGang Liu, WeiFeng Zhuang, Lei Chen, Ming Gong, Yu Ma, XingXiang Peng, GongChu Li, JinShi Xu, ZongQuan Zhou, Lijian Zhang, Geng Chen, ChuanFeng Li, GuangCan Guo, Improving the Precision of Optical Metrology by Detecting Fewer Photons with biased weak measurement. Light: Science & Applications 10, 103 (2021).
Liang Xu, Huichao Xu, Tao Jiang, Feixiang Xu, Kaimin Zheng, Ben Wang, Aonan Zhang, and Lijian Zhang, Direct characterization of quantum measurements using weak values, Physical Review Letters 127, 180401 (2021).
Aonan Zhang, Hao Zhan, Junjie Liao, Kaimin Zheng, Tao Jiang, Minghao Mi, Penghui Yao, and Lijian Zhang, Quantum verification of NP problems with single photons and linear optics, Light: Science & Applications 10, 169 (2021).
Feixiang Xu, Xiao-Ming Zhang, Liang Xu, Tao Jiang, Man-Hong Yung, and Lijian Zhang, Experimental Quantum Target Detection Approaching the Fundamental Helstrom Limit, Physical Review Letters 127, 040504 (2021).
Ben Wang, Liang Xu, Jun-chi Li, and Lijian Zhang, Quantum-limited localization and resolution in three dimensions, Photon. Res. 9, 1522-1530 (2021).
Jie Xie, Li Zhou, Aonan Zhang, Huichao Xu, Man-Hong Yung, Ping Xu, Nengkun Yu and Lijian Zhang, Entirety of Quantum Uncertainty and Its Experimental Verification, Chinese Physics Letters 38, 070303 (2021).
Liang Xu and Lijian Zhang, Progress in Weak-Value-Based Quantum Metrology and Tomography, Laser & Optoelectronics Progress 58, 1011004 (2021).
Yang Liu, Kaimin Zheng, Haijun Kang, Dongmei Han, Lijian Zhang, Xiaolong Su, and Kunchi Peng, Distillation of Gaussian Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper FTh1D.5 (2020).
Xinyu Chen, Wei Ding, Ying-Ying Wang, Shou-Fei Gao, Feixiang Xu, Huichao Xu, Yi-Feng Hong, Yi-Zhi Sun, Pu Wang, Yan-Qing Lu, and Lijian Zhang, High-fidelity, low-latency polarization quantum state transmissions over a hollow-core conjoined-tube fiber at around 800 nm, Photon Res 9, 460-470 (2021).
Jie Xie, Aonan Zhang, Ningping Cao, Huichao Xu, Kaimin Zheng, Yiu-Tung Poon, Nung-Sing Sze, Ping Xu, Bei Zeng* and Lijian Zhang*, “Observing geometry of quantum states in a three-level system”, Physical Review Letters 125, 150401 (2020).
Kaimin Zheng, Minghao Mi, Ben Wang, Liyun Hu, Shengshuai Liu, Yanbo Lou, Jietai Jing, Lijian Zhang*, Quantum-enhanced stochastic phase estimation with SU(1,1) interferometer, Photon Res 8, 1653-1661 (2020).
Liang Xu, Zexuan Liu, Animesh Datta, George C. Knee, Jeff S. Lundeen, Yan-qing Lu*, Lijian Zhang*, Approaching quantum-limited metrology with imperfect detectors by using weak-value amplification, Physical Review Letters 125, 080501 (2020).
Huichao Xu, Feixiang Xu, Thomas Theurer, Dario Egloff, Zi-Wen Liu, Nengkun Yu, Martin B. Plenio* and Lijian Zhang*, “Experimental quantification of coherence of a tunable quantum detector”, Physical Review Letters 125, 060404 (2020).
L. Li, Z. Liu, X. Ren, S. Wang, V.-C. Su, M.-K. Chen, C. H. Chu, H. Y. Kuo, B. Liu, W. Zang, G. Guo, L. Zhang, Z. Wang, S. Zhu, D. P. Tsai, Metalens-array–based high-dimensional and multiphoton quantum source. Science. 368, 1487–1490 (2020).
Xiang Li, Jingrou Tan, Kaimin Zheng, Labao Zhang*, Lijian Zhang*, Weiji He, Pengwei Huang, Haochen Li, Biao Zhang, Qi Chen, Rui Ge, Shuya Guo, Tao Huang, Xiaoqing Jia, Qingyuan Zhao, Xuecou Tu, Lin Kang, Jian Chen and Peiheng Wu “Enhanced photons communication through Bayesian estimation with SNSPDs array”, Photonics Research 8, 637-641 (2020).
Samit Kumar Gupta, Yi Zou, Xue-Yi Zhu, Ming-Hui Lu*, Lijian Zhang*, Xiao-Ping Liu* and Yan-Feng Chen*, “Parity-time Symmetry in Non-Hermitian Complex Media”, Advanced Materials (2019).
Aonan Zhang, Jie Xie, Huichao Xu, Kaimin Zheng, Han Zhang, Yiu-Tung Poon, Vlatko Vedral* and Lijian Zhang*, “Experimental Self-Characterization of Quantum Measurements”, Physical Review Letters 124, 040402 (2020).
Kaimin Zheng, Huichao Xu, Aonan Zhang, Xinghai Ning and Lijian Zhang*, “Ab initio phase estimation at the shot noise limit with on–off measurement”, Quantum Information Processing 18, 329 (2019).
Minyi Huang*, Ray-Kuang Lee*, Lijian Zhang*, Shao-Ming Fei* and Junde Wu*, “Simulating broken PT-symmetric Hamiltonian systems by weak measurement”, Physical Review Letters 123, 080404 (2019).
Thomas Theurer, Dario Egloff, Lijian Zhang and Martin B. Plenio, “Quantifying Operations with an Application to Coherence”, Physical Review Letters 122, 190405 (2019).
Lei Tang, Kaimin Zheng, Jiale Guo, Yi Ouyang, Yang Wu, Chuanqing Xia, Long Li, Fang Liu, Yong Zhang*, Lijian Zhang, and Min Xiao, “Quantum tomography of the photon-plasmon conversion process in a metal hole array”, Optics Express 27, 13809 (2019).
Aonan Zhang, Huichao Xu, Jie Xie, Han Zhang, Brian J. Smith*, M. S. Kim, and Lijian Zhang*, Experimental Test of Contextuality in Quantum and Classical Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 080401 (2019).
Aonan Zhang*, Yujie Zhang, Feixiang Xu, Long Li, and Lijian Zhang*, Adaptive tomography of qubits: purity versus statistical fluctuations, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 51 395304 (2018).
G. Chen, L. Zhang*, W.-H. Zhang, X.-X. Peng, L. Xu, Z.-D. Liu, X.-Y. Xu, J.-Sh. Tang, Y.-N. Sun, D.-Y. He, J.-Sh. Xu, Z.-Q. Zhou, Ch.-F. Li*, and G.-C. Guo, Achieving Heisenberg-Scaling Precision with Projective Measurement on Single Photons, Physical. Review. Letters. 121, 060506 (2018).
Sh. Wang, Y. Wang, L. Zhai and L. Zhang*, Two-mode quantum interferometry with a single-mode Fock state and parity detection, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 35, 1046-1053 (2018).
Bin Li*, Wenyan Zhang, Xiaoqing Liu, Haixiao Deng, Taihe Lan, Bo Liu, Jia Liu, Xingtao Wang, Zhinan Zeng*, Lijian Zhang, Chromatic effect in a novel THz generation scheme, New Journal of Physics 19, 113025 (2017).
P. Main, P. Mosley, W. Ding, L. Zhang, and A. V. Gorbach, “Hybrid Microfibre-Lithium Niobate Nanowaveguide Structures as High Purity Heralded Single Photon Sources”, Physical Review A 94, 063844 (2016).
Y. Ming, W. H. Zhang, Z. Chen, Z. Wu, J. Tang, F. Xu, L. Zhang*, and Y. Q. Lu*, “Squeezing a surface plasmon through quadratic nonlinear interactions”, ACS Photonics, 3, 2074 (2016).
Yi Ouyang, Shuai Wang, Lijian Zhang, “Quantum optical interferometry via the photon-added two-mode squeezed vacuum states”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 33, 1373 (2016).
Wei Ji, Chun-Hong Lee, Peng Chen, Wei Hu, Yang Ming, Lijian Zhang, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Vladimir Chigrinov and Yan-Qing Lu, “Meta-q-plate for complex beam shaping”, Scientific Reports 6, 25528 (2016).
L. Zhang, A. Datta and I.A. Walmsley, “Precision metrology using weak measurements”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 210801 (2015).
Y. Ming, J. Tang, Z.-X. Chen, F. Xu, L. Zhang*, Y. Lu*, “Generation of N00N State With Orbital Angular Momentum in a Twisted Nonlinear Photonic Crystal”, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. Ele. 21, 6601206 (2015).
L. Zhang, H. Coldenstrodt-Ronge, A. Datta and I.A. Walmsley, “Quantum Detector Tomography”, Single-Photon Generation and Detection, eds A. Migdall, S. Polyakov, J. Fan and J. Bienfang, Elsevier, pp. 283-313 (2013).
L. Zhang and M. Xiao, “Towards quantum-enhanced precision measurements: Promise and challenges”, Chin. Phys. B 22, 110310 (2013) (Invited review)
J. Nunn, L. Wright, C. Soeller, L. Zhang, I.A. Walmsley, B.J. Smith, “Large-alphabet time-frequency entangled quantum key distribution via time-to-frequency conversion”, Optics Express 21, 15959 (2013).
C.M. Natarajan, L. Zhang, H. Coldenstrodt-Ronge, G. Donati, S.N. Dorenbos, V. Zwiller, I.A. Walmsley, R.H. Hadfield, “Quantum detector tomography of a time-multiplexed superconducting nanowire single-photon detector at telecom wavelengths”, Optics Express 21, 893 (2013).
T.J. Bartley, P.J.D. Crowley, A. Datta, J. Nunn, L. Zhang, I.A. Walmsley, “Strategies for enhancing quantum entanglement by local photon subtraction”, Physical Review A 87, 022313 (2013).
A. Dienst, E. Casandruc, D. Fausti, L. Zhang, M. Hoffmann, V. Khanna, N. Dean, M. Gensch, S. Winnerl, W. Seidel, S. Pyon, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, M. Eckstein, A. Cavalleri, “Excitation of Josephson Plasma Solitons in a Cuprate Superconductor”, Nature Materials 12, 535 (2013).
L. Zhang, A. Datta, H. Coldenstrodt-Ronge, X.-M. Jin, J. Eisert, M.B. Plenio, I.A. Walmsley, “Recursive quantum detector tomography”, New Journal of Physics 14, 115005 (2012)
L. Zhang, H. Coldenstrodt-Ronge, A. Datta, G. Puentes, J.S. Lundeen, X.-M. Jin, B.J. Smith, M.B. Plenio, I.A. Walmsley, “Mapping Coherence in Measurement via Full Quantum Tomography of a Hybrid Optical Detector”, Nature Photonics 6, 364-368 (2012).
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L. Zhang, C. Soeller, O. Cohen, B.J. Smith, I.A. Walmsley, “Heralded Generation of Single Photons in Pure Quantum States”, Journal of Modern Optics 59, 1525(2012).
A. Datta, L. Zhang, J. Nunn, N.K. Langford, A. Feito, M.B. Plenio, I.A. Walmsley, “Compact Continuous-Variable Entanglement Distillation”, Physical Review Letters 108, 060502 (2012).
N. Thomas-Peter, B.J. Smith, A. Datta, L. Zhang, U. Dorner, I.A. Walmsley, “Real-world Quantum Sensors: Evaluating Resources for Precision Measurement”, Physical Review Letters 107, 113603 (2011).
A. Datta, L. Zhang, N. Thomas-Peter, U. Dorner, B.J. Smith, I.A. Walmsley, “Quantum Metrology with Imperfect States and Detectors”, Physical Review A 83, 063836 (2011).
N. Thomas-Peter, N.K. Langford, A. Datta, L. Zhang, B.J. Smith, J.B. Spring, B.J. Metcalf, H.B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge, M. Hu, J. Nunn, I.A. Walmsley, “Integrated photonic sensing”, New Journal of Physics 13, 055024 (2011).
L.E. Vicent, A.B. U’ren, R. Rangarajan, C.I. Osorio, J.P. Torres, L. Zhang and I.A. Walmsley, “Design of bright, fiber-coupled and fully factorable photon pair sources”, New Journal of Physics 12, 093027 (2010).
L. Zhang, L. Neves, J.S. Lundeen and I.A. Walmsley, “A Characterization of the single-photon sensitivity of an electron multiplying charge-coupled device”, Journal of Physics B 42, 114011 (2009).
L. Zhang, Ch. Silberhorn and I.A. Walmsley, “Secure Quantum Key Distribution using Continuous Variables of Single Photons”, Physical Review Letters 100, 110504 (2008).
L. Zhang, A.B. U’ren, R. Erdmann, K.A. O’Donnell, Ch. Silberhorn, K. Banaszek and I.A. Walmsley, “Generation of Highly Entangled Photon Pairs for Continuous Variable Bell Inequality Violation”, Journal of Modern Optics 54, 707-719 (2007).
L. Zhang, E. Mukamel, I.A. Walmsley, Ch. Silberhorn, A.B. U’ren and K. Banaszek, “Continuous Variable for Single Photons”, Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light, eds N.J. Cerf, G. Leuchs and E.S. Polzik, Imperial College Press, pp. 367-388 (2007).