Quantum Key Distribution with Non-ideal Heterodyne. Contributed talk to QCrypt 2022 (Taipei). Full paper here.


Near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination. Poster presentation at QCrypt 2022 (Taipei). Presented by Jas Sidhu. Full paper here.


Quantum hypothesis testing and exoplanet detection. Talk given to the quantum optics group, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel. Full paper here.


Experimental Gaussian-modulated CV quantum key distribution with composable key. Presented by Nitin Jain at QCrypt 2021. Full paper here.


Private-Key Quantum Cryptography with Boson Sampling devices. Invited talk, presented by Zixin Huang at Photon 2020. Full paper here.


Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers. Presented by Zixin Huang in Photon 2020. Full paper here.


A short introduction to quantum sub-wavelength resolution. Talk given to the Low Dimensional Structures and Devices research group, University of Sheffield.


Short presentation given at EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub meeting, Bristol, September 2019. After a quick summary of researches I have done in York and Sheffield, the slides present the protocol of “Boson-Sampling” private-key cryptography, aka the first application of Boson Sampling to quantum cryptography.

Find the paper here: arXiv:1905.03013


Overview of Quantum Data Locking and Quantum Enigma Machines. Invited talk at the York Interdisciplinary Workshop on Aspects of Cyber Security (June 2019).

See a few relevant papers here:
Data Locking capacity of a quantum channel: Physical Review X 4, 011016 (2014)
Quantum Data Locking for key distribution: Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 160502 (2014)
…and for direct communication: New J. Phys. 17, 033022 (2015)
A proof-of-principle experiment: Phys. Rev. A 94, 022315 (2016)


Vacuum fluctuations quantum random number generator with non-iid samples. Presented by Tobias Gehring at QCrypt 2018. Full paper here.


Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV QKD). Invited talk at the Photon 2018 IoP conference (Birmingham, September 2018).

My latest contributions to CV QKD: Phys. Rev. A 97, 052327 (2018), Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220505 (2018).
See a recent review of Quantum Cryptography here: arXiv:1906.01645


Ultimate bounds for quantum and Sub-Rayleigh imaging.
Invited talk at Nottingham Workshop on Advances in Optical Metrology, 14 June 2016.

Original paper: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 190802 (2016)


Quantum data locking and the locking capacity of a quantum channel. Presented at QCrypt 2014.
Related publications:
Physical Review X 4, 011016 (2014)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 160502 (2014)