Dong-Sheng Ding
dds@ustc.edu.cn
Education
2010.9-2015.7. PHD, Optics, University of Science and Technology of China
2006.9-2010.7. B.Sc., Physics, Anhui Normal University
Experience
2021.12-Present Researcher, Hefei National Laboratory
2018.4- Present. Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
2015.8-2018.3. Associate professor, University of Science and Technology of China
2014.9-2015.7. Research Assistant, University of Science and Technology of China
Overview of Academic Research
Prof. Dong-Sheng Ding’s research interest is the study on quantum information based on Rydberg atoms system and cold atomic systems, such as microwave electric field measurement, atomic radar, quantum simulation and quantum computing, and quantum memory. Prof. Dong-Sheng Ding’s team has achieved the following results: demonstrate manybody ergodicity breaking, the breaking of charge conjugate parity symmetry, the continuous time crystals and high-order and fractional-time crystals, and manybody critical warning, and realize the manybody self-organized criticality, criticality enhanced metrology, AI enhanced metrology on multi-frequency microwave fields based on the Rydberg atom, and realize multi-degree-of-freedom high-dimensional state storage and Raman storage. Prof. Dong-Sheng Ding has published papers in journals such as Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Light Science and Applications, Optica, etc.
Research directions:
1. Quantum metrology based on Rydberg atom
2. Quantum simulation based on Rydberg atoms
3. Quantum storage based on cold atomic ensemble
4. Quantum computing based on Rydberg atom array
5. Quantum chemistry based on Rydberg atoms
Major Honors and Awards
2022 Rao Yutai Basic Optics Excellence Award
2021 Natural Science of Chinese Institute of Electronics (Second Prize)
2020 Anhui Province Natural Science (First Prize).
2019 The Optical Science and Technology Award of the Optical Society of China (first prize)
2018 "Rising Stars of Light" award at the International Light Conference
Representative Publications
Dong-Sheng Ding∗,†, Zheng-Yang Bai∗, Zong-Kai Liu∗, Bao-Sen Shi‡, Guang-Can Guo, Wei-Bin Li§，C. Stuart Adams¶. Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system. Science Advances, 2024, 10, eadl5893.
Jun Zhang†, En-Ze Li†, Ya-Jun Wang†, Bang Liu, Li-Hua Zhang, Zheng-Yuan Zhang, Shi-Yao Shao, Qing Li, Han-Chao Chen, Yu Ma, Tian-Yu Han, Qi-Feng Wang, Jia-Dou Nan, Yi-Ming Ying, Dong-Yang Zhu, Guang-Can Guo, Dong-Sheng Ding⋆, and Bao-Sen Shi. Exceptional point and hysteresis trajectories in cold Rydberg atomic gases. Nature Communications 2025, 16, 3511.
Bang Liu, Li-Hua Zhang, Qi-Feng Wang, Yu Ma, Tian-Yu Han, Jun Zhang, Zheng-Yuan Zhang, Shi-Yao Shao, Qing Li, Han-Chao Chen, Bao-Sen Shi & Dong-Sheng Ding†. Higher-order and fractional discrete time crystals in Floquet-driven Rydberg atoms. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 9730.
Bang Liu, Li-Hua Zhang, Zong-Kai Liu, Jun Zhang, Zheng-YuanZhang, Shi- Yao Shao, Qing Li, Han-Chao Chen, Yu Ma, Tian-Yu Han, Qi-Feng Wang, Guang-Can Guo, Dong-Sheng Ding†, Bao-Sen Shi. Bifurcation of time crystals in driven and dissipative Rydberg atomic gas. Nature Communications 2025, 16, 1419.
Jun Zhang, Li-Hua Zhang, Bang Liu, Zheng-Yuan Zhang, Shi-Yao Shao, Qing Li, Han-Chao Chen, Zong-Kai Liu, Yu Ma, Tian-Yu Han, Qi-Feng Wang, C. Stuart Adams, Bao-Sen Shi, and Dong-Sheng Ding†. Early warning signals of the tipping point in strongly interacting Rydberg atoms. Physical Review Letters, 2024, 133, 243601.
Dong-Sheng Ding†, Zong-Kai Liu, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo, Klaus Mølmer, and Charles S. Adams, Enhanced metrology at the critical point of a many-body Rydberg atomic system. Nature Physics. 18, 1447–1452 (2022)
Zong-Kai Liu, Li-Hua Zhang, Bang Liu, Zheng-Yuan Zhang, Guang-Can Guo, Dong-Sheng Ding* & Bao-Sen Shi. Deep learning enhanced Rydberg multifrequency microwave recognition. Nat Commun. 13, 1997 (2022)
Ying-Hao Ye, Lei Zeng, Ming-Xin Dong, Wei-Hang Zhang, En-Ze Li, Da-Chuang Li, Guang-Can Guo, Dong-Sheng Ding*, and Bao-Sen Shi. Long-lived memory for orbital angular momentum quantum states. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 193601 (2022)
Ming-Xin Dong, Ke-Yu Xia, Wei-Hang Zhang, Yi-Chen Yu, Ying-Hao Ye, En-Ze Li, Lei Zeng, Dong-Sheng Ding*, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo, Franco Nori. All-optical reversible single-photon isolation at room temperature. Science Advances. 7: eabe8924 (2021)
Dong-Sheng Ding*, Hannes Busche, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo, and Charles S. Adams, Phase Diagram and Self-Organizing Dynamics in a Thermal Ensemble of Strongly-Interacting Rydberg Atoms. Physical Review X. 10, 021023 (2020).
Wei Zhang, Dong-Sheng Ding†, Shuai Shi, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo, Experimental Realization of Memory-Memory Entanglement in Multiple Degrees of Freedom, Nat. Commun. 7. 13514 (2016).
Dong-Sheng Ding, Wei Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Shuai Shi, Xi-Shi Wang,Yun-Kun Jiang, Bao-Sen Shi. and Guang-Can Guo. “Quantum Storage of Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement in an Atomic Ensemble”. Physical Review Letters. 114, 050502 (2015).
Dong-Sheng Ding, Yun Kun Jiang, Wei Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo. Optical Precursor with Four-Wave Mixing and Storage Based on a Cold-Atom Ensemble. Physical Review Letters. 114, 093601 (2015).
D. -S. Ding, W. Zhang, S. Shi, Z.-Y. Zhou, Y. Li, B.-S. Shi, G.-C. Guo, Hybrid-cascaded generation of tripartite telecom photons using an atomic ensemble and a nonlinear waveguide, Optica 2, 642-645(2015).
Dong-Sheng Ding†, Wei Zhang, Shuai Shi, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Yan Li, Bao-Sen Shi, and Guang-Can Guo, High-dimensional entanglement between distant atomic-ensemble memories, Light science & applications 5, e16157 (2016).
Dong-Sheng Ding, Wei Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Shuai Shi, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo. “Raman Quantum Memory of Photonic Polarized Entanglement.” Nature Photonics. 9, 332–338 (2015).
Dong-Sheng Ding, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi & Guang-Can Guo. “Single-photon-level quantum image memory based on cold atomic ensembles”. Nat. Commun. 4. 2527(2013).