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Publications

I have 19 papers published in refereed journals, 3 papers published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and 8 preprint papers under review. I published 4 papers in Physical Review Letters (premier journal in physics), 5 papers in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (premier journal in information theory, CCF-A journal), 1 paper in Communications in Mathematical Physics (premier journal in mathematical physics), 1 paper in Mathematical Programming (premier journal in mathematical optimization).

You can find me on Google Scholar and arXiv.

Google Scholar Citations (total 996 until 2024/12)

research highlights

2024

Generalized Quantum Asymptotic Equipartition

Kun Fang, Hamza Fawzi, Omar Fawzi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04035 (2024)
To be presented at QIP 2025 as a talk
arXiv | arXiv PDF

Surpassing the Fundamental Limits of Distillation with Catalysts

Kun Fang, Zi-Wen Liu
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14547 (2024)
arXiv | arXiv PDF

Symmetry-Based Quantum Circuit Mapping

Di Yu, Kun Fang
Physical Review Applied 22, 024029 (2024)
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Codes

2023

Single-shot Entanglement Manipulation of States and Channels Revisited

Thomas Theurer, Kun Fang, Gilad Gour
arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17088 (2023)
Presented at QIP 2024 as a talk*
arXiv | arXiv PDF

Dynamic Quantum Circuit Compilation

Kun Fang, Munan Zhang, Ruqi Shi, Yinan Li
arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11021 (2023)
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Codes

Quantum NETwork: from theory to practice (White Paper)

Kun Fang, Jingtian Zhao, Xiufan Li, Yifei Li, Runyao Duan
Science China Information Sciences 66: 180509 (2023)
CCF-A Journal
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Video | Post

Finite-Key Analysis of Quantum Key Distribution with Characterized Devices Using Entropy Accumulation

Ian George, Jie Lin, Thomas van Himbeeck, Kun Fang, Norbert Lütkenhaus
Quantum (accepted in principle, 2023)
arXiv | arXiv PDF

2022

No-Go Theorems for Quantum Resource Purification: New Approach and Channel Theory

Kun Fang, Zi-Wen Liu
PRX Quantum 3, 010337 (2022)
Presented at QIP 2021, TQC 2021 as talks*
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Video

2021

Ultimate Limits of Quantum Channel Discrimination

Kun Fang, Gilad Gour, Xin Wang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14842 (2021)
arXiv | arXiv PDF

Finite Block Length Analysis on Quantum Coherence Distillation and Incoherent Randomness Extraction

Masahito Hayashi, Kun Fang, Kun Wang
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 67(6):3926-3944 (2021)
CCF-A Journal; Presented at BIID 2020, AQIS 2020, ISIT 2021 as talks*
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides | Video

Geometric Rényi Divergence and its Applications in Quantum Channel Capacities

2020

No-Go Theorems for Quantum Resource Purification

Kun Fang, Zi-Wen Liu
Physical Review Letters 125, 060405 (2020)
Editors’ Suggestion & Featured in Physics
Presented at QIP 2021, TQC 2021 as talk*
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Post | Video

Chain Rule for the Quantum Relative Entropy

Kun Fang, Omar Fawzi, Renato Renner, David Sutter
Physical Review Letters 124, 100501 (2020)
Presented at QIP 2020, BIID 2020, AQIS 2020 as talks
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides | Video

The Sum-of-Squares Hierarchy on the Sphere, and Applications in Quantum Information Theory

Kun Fang, Hamza Fawzi
Mathematical Programming Series A (2020)
Presented at ICCOPT 2019 as a talk
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides | Video

Quantum Channel Simulation and the Channel's Smooth Max-Information

Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Marco Tomamichel, Mario Berta
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 66(4): 2129-2140 (2020)
CCF-A Journal; Presented at ISIT 2018, TQC 2018, BIID 2018 as talks
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides | Video

2019

Non-asymptotic Entanglement Distillation

Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Marco Tomamichel, Runyao Duan
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 65(10): 6454-6465 (2019)
CCF-A Journal; Presented at AQIS 2017 as a long talk (top 10%)
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Codes | Slides

On Converse Bounds for Classical Communication over Quantum Channels

Xin Wang, Kun Fang, Marco Tomamichel
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 65(7): 4609-4619 (2019)
CCF-A Journal; Presented at QIP 2018 as a talk*
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides | Video

One-Shot Entanglement Distillation beyond LOCC

Bartosz Regula, Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Mile Gu
New Journal of Physics 21, 103017 (2019)
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF

The Complementary Information Principle of Quantum Mechanics

Yunlong Xiao, Kun Fang, Gilad Gour
arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07694 (2019)
Presented at AQIS 2019 as a talk
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Slides

2018

Probabilistic Distillation of Quantum Coherence

Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Ludovico Lami, Bartosz Regula, Gerardo Adesso
Physical Review Letters 121, 070404 (2018)
Presented at AQIS 2018 as a talk*
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides

One-shot Coherence Distillation

Bartosz Regula, Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Gerardo Adesso
Physical Review Letters 121, 010401 (2018)
Presented at AQIS 2018 as a talk*
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides

Semidefinite Programming Converse Bounds for Quantum Communication

Xin Wang, Kun Fang, Runyao Duan
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 65(4): 2583-2592 (2018)
CCF-A Journal; Presented at QIP 2018 as a talk
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF | Slides | Video

Using and Reusing Coherence to Realize Quantum Processes

María García Díaz, Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Matteo Rosati,
Michalis Skotiniotis, John Calsamiglia, Andreas Winter
Quantum 2, 100 (2018)
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF

Quantum Advantages in Hypercube Game

Xiaoyu He, Kun Fang, Xiaoming Sun, Runyao Duan
arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.02642 (2018)
arXiv | arXiv PDF

2017

Approximate Broadcasting of Quantum Correlations

Wei Xie, Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Runyao Duan
Physical Review A 96, 022302 (2017)
Presented at AQIS 2017 as a talk
arXiv | arXiv PDF | Journal PDF

Theses

Distillation and Simulation in Quantum Information

Kun Fang
PhD thesis, University of Technology Sydney (2018)
University Link | Thesis PDF | Post