Yu-Huai Li

Yu-Huai Li

Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
liyuhuai@ustc.edu.cn
+86 13817867870
99 Xiupu Road, Shanghai, 201315
Experience
2021 – Present

Associate Professor

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

2017 – 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

2011 – 2017

Ph.D., Department of Modern Physics

USTC · Supervisor: Prof. Cheng-Zhi Peng

2007 – 2011

B.Sc., Department of Modern Physics

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Selected Publications
  1. Y.-H. Li*, T. Zeng*, M.-Y. Wang*, et al., Free-Space Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution, Nat. Photon. (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-026-01910-6
  2. H.-N. Wu*, Y.-H. Li*, B. Li, et al., Single-Photon Interference over 8.4 km Urban Atmosphere: Toward Testing Quantum Effects in Curved Spacetime with Photons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020201 (2024)
  3. N. Li, Y.-H. Li✉, D. Fan, et al., Optical transmission of microwave control signal towards large-scale superconducting quantum computing, Optics Express 32, 3989 (2024)
  4. Y.-H. Li*, S.-L. Li*, X.-L. Hu, et al., Free-Space and Fiber-Integrated Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution under High Background Noise, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 100802 (2023)
  5. B. Li, Y.-H. Li✉, Y. Cao, et al., Pure-State Photon-Pair Source with a Long Coherence Time for Large-Scale Quantum Information Processing, Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 064083 (2023)
  6. B. Li*, Y. Cao*, Y.-H. Li, et al., Quantum State Transfer over 1200 km Assisted by Prior Distributed Entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170501 (2022)
  7. J. Yin, Y.-H. Li, S.-K. Liao, et al., Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres, Nature 582, 501 (2020)
  8. Y. Cao*, Y.-H. Li*, K.-X. Yang*, Long-Distance Free-Space Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 260503 (2020)
  9. Y.-H. Li, X. Han, Y. Cao, Quantum random number generation with uncharacterized laser and sunlight, npj Quantum Information 5, 97 (2019)
  10. Y. Cao*, Y.-H. Li*, W.-J. Zou, et al., Bell Test over Extremely High-Loss Channels: Towards Distributing Entangled Photon Pairs between Earth and the Moon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140405 (2018)
  11. J. Yin, Y. Cao, Y.-H. Li, S.-K. Liao, et al., Satellite-Based Entanglement Distribution over 1200 Kilometers, Science 356, 1140 (2017)
  12. H. Wang*, Y. He*, Y.-H. Li*, et al., High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling, Nat. Photon. 11, 361 (2017)
  13. Y. Cao*, Y.-H. Li*, Z. Cao, et al., Direct counterfactual communication via quantum Zeno effect, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114, 4920 (2017)
  14. Y.-H. Li, Y. Cao, H. Dai, et al., Experimental round-robin differential phase-shift quantum key distribution, Phys. Rev. A 93, 030302(R) (2016)

* Co-first author (equal contribution)    ✉ Corresponding author

Yu-Huai Li · Curriculum Vitae