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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
  • 2016 - OSA Fellows Jian-Wei Pan University of Science and Technology of China, China For pioneering achievements in experimental quantum foundation and quantum information.
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering works on experiments of optical quantum communication, quantum computation, and multiphoton entanglement, and for his important role in international physics
  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jian-Wei Pan is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Computer Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main research topics covered by Jian-Wei Pan include Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Quantum optics and atomic interactions, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing.

Key frequent co-authors collaborating with Jian-Wei Pan are:

  • Chao-Yang Lu
  • Qiang Zhang
  • Cheng-Zhi Peng
  • Zhen-Sheng Yuan
  • Yu-Ao Chen

Jian-Wei Pan has published extensively across several high-profile venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Nature
  • Physical review. A/Physical review, A

Among their recent papers are:

  • Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices (2020), published in Reviews of Modern Physics
  • Strong Quantum Computational Advantage Using a Superconducting Quantum Processor (2021), published in Physical Review Letters
  • An integrated space-to-ground quantum communication network over 4,600 kilometres (2021), published in Nature
  • Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres (2020), published in Nature
  • The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies (2021), published in Nature Reviews Physics

Jian-Wei Pan has received several professional recognitions including:

  • OSA Fellows, awarded in 2016 with citation related to pioneering achievements in experimental quantum foundation and quantum information
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 2013 for pioneering work on experiments of optical quantum communication, quantum computation, and multiphoton entanglement
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences in 2012

Best Publications

  • Experimental quantum teleportation

    D. Bouwmeester;J.-W. Pan;K. Mattle;M. Eibl

  • Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution

    Sheng-Kai Liao;Wen-Qi Cai;Wei-Yue Liu;Liang Zhang

  • Experimental Entanglement Swapping: Entangling Photons That Never Interacted

    Jian-Wei Pan;Dik Bouwmeester;Harald Weinfurter;Anton Zeilinger

  • Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry

    Jian-Wei Pan;Zeng-Bing Chen;Chao-Yang Lu;Harald Weinfurter

  • Satellite-based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers.

    Juan Yin;Yuan Cao;Yu-Huai Li;Sheng-Kai Liao

  • Observation of three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement

    Dik Bouwmeester;Jian-Wei Pan;Matthew Daniell;Harald Weinfurter

  • Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices

    Feihu Xu;Xiongfeng Ma;Qiang Zhang;Hoi-Kwong Lo

  • Experimental test of quantum nonlocality in three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement

    Jian-Wei Pan;Dik Bouwmeester;Matthew Daniell;Harald Weinfurter

  • Single quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors

    Yu-Ming He;Genevieve Clark;John R. Schaibley;Yu He

  • Strong Quantum Computational Advantage Using a Superconducting Quantum Processor.

    Yulin Wu;Wan-Su Bao;Sirui Cao;Fusheng Chen

  • Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation

    Ji-Gang Ren;Ping Xu;Hai-Lin Yong;Liang Zhang

  • Efficient multiparty quantum-secret-sharing schemes

    Li Xiao;Gui Lu Long;Fu-Guo Deng;Jian-Wei Pan

  • On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar.

    Xing Ding;Yu He;Z.-C. Duan;Niels Gregersen

  • Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Over a 404 km Optical Fiber.

    Hua-Lei Yin;Teng-Yun Chen;Zong-Wen Yu;Hui Liu

  • Satellite-Relayed Intercontinental Quantum Network.

    Sheng-Kai Liao;Wen-Qi Cai;Johannes Handsteiner;Johannes Handsteiner;Bo Liu;Bo Liu

  • Entanglement purification for quantum communication

    Jian-Wei Pan;Christoph Simon;Christoph Simon;Časlav Brukner;Anton Zeilinger

  • Experimental demonstration of five-photon entanglement and open-destination teleportation

    Zhi Zhao;Yu-Ao Chen;An-Ning Zhang;Tao Yang

  • Experimental entanglement of six photons in graph states

    Chao-Yang Lu;Xiao-Qi Zhou;Otfried Gühne;Wei-Bo Gao

  • Experimental Demonstration of Four-Photon Entanglement and High-Fidelity Teleportation

    Jian-Wei Pan;Matthew Daniell;Sara Gasparoni;Gregor Weihs

  • Quantum computational advantage using photons

    Han-Sen Zhong;Hui Wang;Yu-Hao Deng;Ming-Cheng Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Chao-Yang Lu
Chao-Yang Lu University of Science and Technology of China
Cheng-Zhi Peng
Cheng-Zhi Peng University of Science and Technology of China
Xiongfeng Ma
Xiongfeng Ma Tsinghua University
Sven Höfling
Sven Höfling University of Würzburg
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger University of Vienna
Harald Weinfurter
Harald Weinfurter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jonathan P. Dowling
Jonathan P. Dowling Louisiana State University
Martin M. Fejer
Martin M. Fejer Stanford University
Barry C. Sanders
Barry C. Sanders University of Calgary

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