A quantum internet is the holy grail of quantum information processing, enabling the
deployment of a broad range of quantum technologies and protocols on a global scale …

Quantum theory has been successfully validated in numerous laboratory experiments. But
would such a theory, which effectively describes the behavior of microscopic physical …

Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Thirty years after it was first proposed, quantum teleportation remains one of the most
important protocols in quantum information and quantum technologies, enabling the …

Controlling and programming quantum devices to process quantum information by the unit
of quantum dit, ie, qudit, provides the possibilities for noise-resilient quantum …

All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) attracts much attention for it can transmit
secret messages directly without sharing a key. In this article, we propose a one-step QSDC …

High-dimensional photon states (qudits) are pivotal to enhance the information capacity,
noise robustness, and data rates of quantum communications. Time-bin entangled qudits …

Quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) based on entanglement can directly transmit
confidential information. However, the inability to simultaneously distinguish the four sets of …

Since its discovery, quantum entanglement has challenged some of the best established
views of the world: locality and reality. Quantum technologies promise to revolutionize …