High-dimensional(HD)entanglement provides a very promising way of transcending the limitations of the twodimensional entanglement between qubits for increasing channel capacity in many quantum protocols.In the pursuit...High-dimensional(HD)entanglement provides a very promising way of transcending the limitations of the twodimensional entanglement between qubits for increasing channel capacity in many quantum protocols.In the pursuit of capitalizing on the HD entangled states,one of the central issues is to unambiguously and comprehensively quantilfy and reconstruct them.The full quantum state tomography is a unique solution,but it is undesirable and even impractical because the measurements increase rapidly in d^4 for a bipartite d-dimensional quantum state.Here we present a very efficient and practical tomography method—asymptotical locking tomography(ALT),which can harvest full information of bipartite d-dimensional entangled states by very few measurements less than 2 d^2 only.To showcase the validity and reasonableness of our ALT,we carry out the test with the two-photon spin-orbital angular momentum hyperentangled states in a four-dimensional subspace.Besides high-efficiency and practicality,our ALT is also universal and can be generalized into multipartite HD entanglement and other quantum systems.展开更多
Ghost imaging functions achieved by means of the spatial correlations between two photons is a new modality in imaging systems. With a small number of photons, ghost imaging is usually realized based on the position c...Ghost imaging functions achieved by means of the spatial correlations between two photons is a new modality in imaging systems. With a small number of photons, ghost imaging is usually realized based on the position correlation of photon pairs produced from the spontaneous parametric down-conversion process. Here we demonstrate a way to realize multi-path ghost imaging by introducing an additional time correlation. Different delays of paths will induce the shift of the coincidence peak, which carries the information about objects. By choosing the suitable coincidence window, we obtain images of three objects simultaneously, with a visibility of 87.2%.This method provides insights and techniques into multi-parameter ghost imaging. It can be applied to other correlated imaging systems, for example, quantum spiral imaging.展开更多
In recent years,orbital angular momentum(OAM),as a new usable degree of freedom of photons,has been widely applied in both classical optics and quantum optics.For example,digital spiral imaging uses the OAM spectrum o...In recent years,orbital angular momentum(OAM),as a new usable degree of freedom of photons,has been widely applied in both classical optics and quantum optics.For example,digital spiral imaging uses the OAM spectrum of the output beam from the object to restore the symmetry information of the object.However,the related experiments have been carried out in free space so far.Due to the poor anti-noise performance,limited transmission distance and other reasons,the practicability is seriously restricted.Here,we have carried out a digital spiral imaging experiment through a few-mode fiber,to achieve the identification of the symmetry of object by measuring the OAM spectrum of the output beam.In experiment,we have demonstrated the identification of the symmetry of amplitude-only and phase-only objects with the two-,three-and four-fold rotational symmetries.We also give the understanding of the physics.We believe that our work has greatly improved the practical application of digital spiral imaging in remote sensing.展开更多
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is a common chronic liver disease characterized by diffuse hepatic steatosis.With the improvement of people's living standard,the incidence rate of NAFLD has been increasing...Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is a common chronic liver disease characterized by diffuse hepatic steatosis.With the improvement of people's living standard,the incidence rate of NAFLD has been increasing,which has become one of the global health problems in 21st Century.However,there is no specific drug or standard treatment for NAFLD,which brings challenges to treatment.Acupuncture,moxibustion,massage and other external therapies based on the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine have obvious curative effect in the clinical treatment of NAFLD,but the mechanism has not been systematically explained,which makes the clinical promotion evidence insufficient.This paper aims to summarize the researches on the treatment of NAFLD by external therapies of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years,and analyze its possible mechanism,so as to provide a scientific theoretical basis for future basic experiments and clinical research,and form a set of standardized clinical diagnosis and treatment scheme with the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine.展开更多
Compared with electrical neural networks,optical neural networks(ONNs)have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy,and therefore draw much attention in recent years.By f...Compared with electrical neural networks,optical neural networks(ONNs)have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy,and therefore draw much attention in recent years.By far,several types of ONNs have been implemented.However,the current ONNs cannot realize the acceleration as powerful as that indicated by the models like quantum neural networks.How to construct and realize an ONN with the quantum speedup is a huge challenge.Here,we propose theoretically and demonstrate experimentally a new type of optical convolutional neural network by introducing the optical correlation.It is called the correlated optical convolutional neural network(COCNN).We show that the COCNN can exhibit“quantum speedup”in the training process.The character is verified from the two aspects.One is the direct illustration of the faster convergence by comparing the loss function curves of the COCNN with that of the traditional convolutional neural network(CNN).Such a result is compatible with the training performance of the recently proposed quantum convolutional neural network(QCNN).The other is the demonstration of the COCNN’s capability to perform the QCNN phase recognition circuit,validating the connection between the COCNN and the QCNN.Furthermore,we take the COCNN analog to the 3-qubit QCNN phase recognition circuit as an example and perform an experiment to show the soundness and the feasibility of it.The results perfectly match the theoretical calculations.Our proposal opens up a new avenue for realizing the ONNs with the quantum speedup,which will benefit the information processing in the era of big data.展开更多
Femtosecond laser filamentation is generally initialized from unpredictable symmetry breaking caused by random noise, causing it to be barely controlled. However, it is always anticipated for stable and controllable f...Femtosecond laser filamentation is generally initialized from unpredictable symmetry breaking caused by random noise, causing it to be barely controlled. However, it is always anticipated for stable and controllable filamentation.We present and demonstrate the idea that hybridly polarized vector fields with axial symmetry broken polarization, associated with a pair of orthogonally linearly polarized vortices carrying the opposite-handed orbital angular momenta, could achieve controllable and robust multiple filamentation. Here, our motivation is to unveil the underlying physics behind such controllable and robust multiple filamentation. The symmetry breaking should first be actively controllable and then be able to effectively inhibit random noise. Robust multiple filamentation is inseparable from the fact that the phases between the multiple filaments are always locked. In contrast, uncontrollable multiple filamentation is always accompanied with loss of phase, i.e., the multiple filaments become incoherent to each other. Our results may offer a suggestion for achieving controllable and robust multiple filamentation in other systems.展开更多
Optical orbital angular momentum(OAM) is a special property of photons and has evoked research onto the light–matter interaction in both classical and quantum regimes. In classical optics, OAM is related to an optica...Optical orbital angular momentum(OAM) is a special property of photons and has evoked research onto the light–matter interaction in both classical and quantum regimes. In classical optics, OAM is related to an optical vortex with a helical phase structure. In quantum optics, photons with a twisted or helical phase structure will carry a quantized OAM. To our knowledge, however, so far, no experiment has demonstrated the fundamental property of the OAM at the single-photon level. In this Letter, we have demonstrated the average photon trajectories of twisted photons in a double-slit interference. We have experimentally captured the double-slit interference process of twisted photons by a time-gated intensified charge-coupled device camera, which is trigged by a heralded detection. Our work provides new perspectives for understanding the micro-behaviors of twisted particles and enables new applications in imaging and sensing.展开更多
A Hardy-like proof of quantum contextuality is a compelling way to see the conflict between quantum theory and noncontextual hidden variables(NCHVs),as the latter predict that a particular probability must be zero,whi...A Hardy-like proof of quantum contextuality is a compelling way to see the conflict between quantum theory and noncontextual hidden variables(NCHVs),as the latter predict that a particular probability must be zero,while quantum theory predicts a nonzero value.For the existing Hardy-like proofs,the success probability tends to 1/2when the number of measurement settings n goes to infinity.It means the conflict between the existing Hardy-like proof and NCHV theory is weak,which is not conducive to experimental observation.Here we advance the study of a stronger Hardy-like proof of quantum contextuality,whose success probability is always higher than the previous ones generated from a certain n-cycle graph.Furthermore,the success probability tends to 1 when n goes to infinity.We perform the experimental test of the Hardy-like proof in the simplest case of n=7 by using a four-dimensional quantum system encoded in the polarization and orbital angular momentum of single photons.The experimental result agrees with the theoretical prediction within experimental errors.In addition,by starting from our Hardy-like proof,one can establish the stronger noncontextuality inequality,for which the quantumclassical ratio is higher with the same n,which provides a new method to construct some optimal noncontextuality inequalities.Our results offer a way for optimizing and enriching exclusivity graphs,helping to explore more abundant quantum properties.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant Nos.2017YFA0303800 and 2017YFA0303700the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11534006,91750202,11774183 and 11674184the Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics。
文摘High-dimensional(HD)entanglement provides a very promising way of transcending the limitations of the twodimensional entanglement between qubits for increasing channel capacity in many quantum protocols.In the pursuit of capitalizing on the HD entangled states,one of the central issues is to unambiguously and comprehensively quantilfy and reconstruct them.The full quantum state tomography is a unique solution,but it is undesirable and even impractical because the measurements increase rapidly in d^4 for a bipartite d-dimensional quantum state.Here we present a very efficient and practical tomography method—asymptotical locking tomography(ALT),which can harvest full information of bipartite d-dimensional entangled states by very few measurements less than 2 d^2 only.To showcase the validity and reasonableness of our ALT,we carry out the test with the two-photon spin-orbital angular momentum hyperentangled states in a four-dimensional subspace.Besides high-efficiency and practicality,our ALT is also universal and can be generalized into multipartite HD entanglement and other quantum systems.
基金the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant Nos 2017YFA0303800 and 2017YFA0303700the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11534006,11774183 and 11674184the Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics
文摘Ghost imaging functions achieved by means of the spatial correlations between two photons is a new modality in imaging systems. With a small number of photons, ghost imaging is usually realized based on the position correlation of photon pairs produced from the spontaneous parametric down-conversion process. Here we demonstrate a way to realize multi-path ghost imaging by introducing an additional time correlation. Different delays of paths will induce the shift of the coincidence peak, which carries the information about objects. By choosing the suitable coincidence window, we obtain images of three objects simultaneously, with a visibility of 87.2%.This method provides insights and techniques into multi-parameter ghost imaging. It can be applied to other correlated imaging systems, for example, quantum spiral imaging.
基金Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant Nos 2017YFA0303800 and 2017YFA0303700the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11534006,11674184,11774183 and 11804187+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin under Grant No 16JCZDJC31300the Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics
文摘In recent years,orbital angular momentum(OAM),as a new usable degree of freedom of photons,has been widely applied in both classical optics and quantum optics.For example,digital spiral imaging uses the OAM spectrum of the output beam from the object to restore the symmetry information of the object.However,the related experiments have been carried out in free space so far.Due to the poor anti-noise performance,limited transmission distance and other reasons,the practicability is seriously restricted.Here,we have carried out a digital spiral imaging experiment through a few-mode fiber,to achieve the identification of the symmetry of object by measuring the OAM spectrum of the output beam.In experiment,we have demonstrated the identification of the symmetry of amplitude-only and phase-only objects with the two-,three-and four-fold rotational symmetries.We also give the understanding of the physics.We believe that our work has greatly improved the practical application of digital spiral imaging in remote sensing.
基金Qihuang scholar of the"hundred and ten million"talent project of Inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese Medicine(2018)National key project on modernization of traditional Chinese medicine(No.2018YFC1707800)The three-year Action Plan for Further Speed Up the Development of Chinese Medicine in Shanghai[No.ZY(2018-2020)-CCCX-2004-02]。
文摘Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is a common chronic liver disease characterized by diffuse hepatic steatosis.With the improvement of people's living standard,the incidence rate of NAFLD has been increasing,which has become one of the global health problems in 21st Century.However,there is no specific drug or standard treatment for NAFLD,which brings challenges to treatment.Acupuncture,moxibustion,massage and other external therapies based on the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine have obvious curative effect in the clinical treatment of NAFLD,but the mechanism has not been systematically explained,which makes the clinical promotion evidence insufficient.This paper aims to summarize the researches on the treatment of NAFLD by external therapies of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years,and analyze its possible mechanism,so as to provide a scientific theoretical basis for future basic experiments and clinical research,and form a set of standardized clinical diagnosis and treatment scheme with the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine.
基金National key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1404904)National Natural Science Foundation of China(12234004)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11904022).
文摘Compared with electrical neural networks,optical neural networks(ONNs)have the potentials to break the limit of the bandwidth and reduce the consumption of energy,and therefore draw much attention in recent years.By far,several types of ONNs have been implemented.However,the current ONNs cannot realize the acceleration as powerful as that indicated by the models like quantum neural networks.How to construct and realize an ONN with the quantum speedup is a huge challenge.Here,we propose theoretically and demonstrate experimentally a new type of optical convolutional neural network by introducing the optical correlation.It is called the correlated optical convolutional neural network(COCNN).We show that the COCNN can exhibit“quantum speedup”in the training process.The character is verified from the two aspects.One is the direct illustration of the faster convergence by comparing the loss function curves of the COCNN with that of the traditional convolutional neural network(CNN).Such a result is compatible with the training performance of the recently proposed quantum convolutional neural network(QCNN).The other is the demonstration of the COCNN’s capability to perform the QCNN phase recognition circuit,validating the connection between the COCNN and the QCNN.Furthermore,we take the COCNN analog to the 3-qubit QCNN phase recognition circuit as an example and perform an experiment to show the soundness and the feasibility of it.The results perfectly match the theoretical calculations.Our proposal opens up a new avenue for realizing the ONNs with the quantum speedup,which will benefit the information processing in the era of big data.
基金973 Program of China(2012CB921900)National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(11274183,11374166,11504409,11534006)+1 种基金National Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project(2012YQ17004)Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics
文摘Femtosecond laser filamentation is generally initialized from unpredictable symmetry breaking caused by random noise, causing it to be barely controlled. However, it is always anticipated for stable and controllable filamentation.We present and demonstrate the idea that hybridly polarized vector fields with axial symmetry broken polarization, associated with a pair of orthogonally linearly polarized vortices carrying the opposite-handed orbital angular momenta, could achieve controllable and robust multiple filamentation. Here, our motivation is to unveil the underlying physics behind such controllable and robust multiple filamentation. The symmetry breaking should first be actively controllable and then be able to effectively inhibit random noise. Robust multiple filamentation is inseparable from the fact that the phases between the multiple filaments are always locked. In contrast, uncontrollable multiple filamentation is always accompanied with loss of phase, i.e., the multiple filaments become incoherent to each other. Our results may offer a suggestion for achieving controllable and robust multiple filamentation in other systems.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2017YFA0303800 and 2017YFA0303700)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11534006,11674184,and 11774183)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin(No. 16JCZDJC31300)the Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics
文摘Optical orbital angular momentum(OAM) is a special property of photons and has evoked research onto the light–matter interaction in both classical and quantum regimes. In classical optics, OAM is related to an optical vortex with a helical phase structure. In quantum optics, photons with a twisted or helical phase structure will carry a quantized OAM. To our knowledge, however, so far, no experiment has demonstrated the fundamental property of the OAM at the single-photon level. In this Letter, we have demonstrated the average photon trajectories of twisted photons in a double-slit interference. We have experimentally captured the double-slit interference process of twisted photons by a time-gated intensified charge-coupled device camera, which is trigged by a heralded detection. Our work provides new perspectives for understanding the micro-behaviors of twisted particles and enables new applications in imaging and sensing.
基金Alexander von Humboldt-StiftungNankai Zhide Foundation+4 种基金Tianjin Research Innovation Project for Postgraduate Students(2019YJSB033)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0303700,2017YFA0303800)National Natural Science Foundation of China(11534006,116741841,11774183,11875167,11901317,12075001,12104135)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2018M631726,2018M640471)Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics。
文摘A Hardy-like proof of quantum contextuality is a compelling way to see the conflict between quantum theory and noncontextual hidden variables(NCHVs),as the latter predict that a particular probability must be zero,while quantum theory predicts a nonzero value.For the existing Hardy-like proofs,the success probability tends to 1/2when the number of measurement settings n goes to infinity.It means the conflict between the existing Hardy-like proof and NCHV theory is weak,which is not conducive to experimental observation.Here we advance the study of a stronger Hardy-like proof of quantum contextuality,whose success probability is always higher than the previous ones generated from a certain n-cycle graph.Furthermore,the success probability tends to 1 when n goes to infinity.We perform the experimental test of the Hardy-like proof in the simplest case of n=7 by using a four-dimensional quantum system encoded in the polarization and orbital angular momentum of single photons.The experimental result agrees with the theoretical prediction within experimental errors.In addition,by starting from our Hardy-like proof,one can establish the stronger noncontextuality inequality,for which the quantumclassical ratio is higher with the same n,which provides a new method to construct some optimal noncontextuality inequalities.Our results offer a way for optimizing and enriching exclusivity graphs,helping to explore more abundant quantum properties.
