Xing Ding
dingxing@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Education
2014-2020 Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics, USTC
2010-2014 Bachelor's Degree in Applied Physics, Anhui University
Experience
2022-Present Junior Researcher, Hefei National Laboratory
2020-2022 Postdoc, USTC
Overview of Academic Research
Dr. Ding’s research focuses on experimental studies of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots for quantum information. He has made significant contributions to the development of single-photon sources and optical quantum computing. His research has a broad impact, with over 8,000 citations on Google Scholar.
Major Honors and Awards
2021 China Youth May Fourth Collective Award
2020 Mozi Distinguished Youth Award, USTC
2019 Optics in 2019, Optics & Photonics News, OSA
2016 Optics in 2016, Optics & Photonics News, OSA
Representative Publications
1.Xing Ding*, Yong-Peng Guo*, Mo-Chi Xu*, Run-Ze Liu*, Geng-Yan Zou, Jun-Yi Zhao, Zhen-Xuan Ge, Qi-Hang Zhang, Hua-Liang Liu, Lin-Jun Wang, Ming-Cheng Chen, Hui Wang, Yu-Ming He, Yong-Heng Huo, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan. High-efficiency single-photon source above the loss-tolerant threshold for efficient linear optical quantum computing. Nat. Photonics. 19, 387–391 (2025).
2.Yang Zhang*, Xing Ding*, Yang Li*, Likang Zhang, Yong-Peng Guo, Gao-Qiang Wang, Zhen Ning, Mo-Chi Xu, Run-Ze Liu, Jun-Yi Zhao, Geng-Yan Zou, Hui Wang, Yuan Cao, Yu-Ming He, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Yong-Heng Huo, Sheng-Kai Liao, Chao-Yang Lu, Feihu Xu, Jian-Wei Pan. Experimental single-photon quantum key distribution surpassing the fundamental coherent-state rate limit. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210801 (2025).
3.Chao Chen*, Xing Ding*, Jian Qin*, Jizhou Wu*, Yu He, Chao-Yang Lu, Li Li, Xiong-Jun Liu, Barry C Sanders, Jian-Wei Pan. Topological spin texture of chiral edge states in photonic two-dimensional quantum walks. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 046401 (2022).
4.Hui Wang*, Jian Qin*, Xing Ding*, Ming-Cheng Chen*, Si Chen, Xiang You, Yu-Ming He, Xiao Jiang, L You, Z Wang, C Schneider, Jelmer J Renema, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan. Boson Sampling with 20 Input Photons and a 60-Mode Interferometer in a 10(14)-Dimensional Hilbert Space. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 250503 (2019).
5.Yu He*, X Ding*, Z-E Su, H-L Huang, J Qin, C Wang, S Unsleber, C Chen, H Wang, Y-M He, X-L Wang, W-J Zhang, S-J Chen, C Schneider, M Kamp, L-X You, Z Wang, S Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan. Time-bin-encoded boson sampling with a single-photon device. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 190501 (2017).
6.Xing Ding, Yu He, Z-C Duan, Niels Gregersen, M-C Chen, S Unsleber, S Maier, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan. On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020401 (2016).