Publications

Selected Publications

1. Chen-Xun Weng, Ming-Yang Li, Nai-Rui Xu, Yanglin Hu, Ian George, Jiawei Wu, Shengjun Wu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen,  Experimental asymmetric relativistic zero-knowledge proofs with unconditional security, Nature Communications 17, 6870 (2026). 

2. Chen-Xun Weng*, Ming-Yang Li*, Shi-Gen Li, Mengya Zhu, Xiao-Ran Sun, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Scalable and highly fault-tolerant circular quantum Byzantine agreement, Science China Information Sciences 69 (8), 180502 (2026) .

3. Xu Jing*, Cheng Qian*, Chen-Xun Weng*, Bing-Hong Li*, Zhe Chen, Chen-Quan Wang, Jie Tang, Xiao-Wen Gu, Yue-Chan Kong, Tang-Sheng Chen, Hua-Lei Yin, Dong Jiang, Bin Niu, Liang-Liang Lu, Experimental Quantum Byzantine Agreement on a Three-User Quantum Network with Integrated Photonics, Science Advances 10, eadp2877 (2024).

4. Chen-Xun Weng*, Rui-Qi Gao*, Yu Bao, Bing-Hong Li, Wen-Bo Liu, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Beating the fault-tolerance bound and security loopholes for Byzantine agreement with a quantum solution, Research 6, 0272 (2023). 

5. Chen-Xun Weng*, Yu-Shuo Lu*, Rui-Qi Gao, Yuan-Mei Xie, Jie Gu, Chen-Long Li, Bing-Hong Li, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen,  Secure and practical multiparty quantum digital signatures, Optics Express 29 (17), 27661-27673 (2021). 

6. Ming-Yang Li*, Chen-Xun Weng*, Wen-Bo Liu*, Mengya Zhu, Zeng-Bing Chen, Information-theoretically secure quantum timestamping with one-time universal hashing, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 68, 100312 (2025).

Arxiv preprint

1. Chen-Xun Weng*, Minglong Qin*, Yanglin Hu*, Marco Tomamichel, Consecutive measurement tradeoffs in quantum cryptography, arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12754v3 (2026).

2. Yongqiang Du*, Chen-Xun Weng*, Feng Xie*, Ming-Yang Li*, Mingxuan Zhang, Xin Hua, Xin An, Xiang Guan, Xin Liu, Zhenrong Zhang, Xi Xiao, Hua-Lei Yin, Kejin Wei, A fault-tolerant quantum blockchain deployed on commercial telecommunications network, arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12249 (2026).

3. Feng Xie*, Ming-Yang Li*, Yongqiang Du*, Chen-Xun Weng*, Mingxuan Zhang, Xin Hua, Xiang Guan, Xin An, Jingzhe He, Xin Liu, Zhenrong Zhang, Xi Xiao, Hua-Lei Yin, Kejin Wei, Experimental demonstration of scalable quantum blockchain with exponentially superior quantum communication complexity, arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12250 (2026).

Published

2021-2026 (PhD)

1. Chen-Xun Weng, Ming-Yang Li, Nai-Rui Xu, Yanglin Hu, Ian George, Jiawei Wu, Shengjun Wu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen,  Experimental asymmetric relativistic zero-knowledge proofs with unconditional security, Nature Communications 17, 6870 (2026). 

2. Chen-Xun Weng*, Ming-Yang Li*, Shi-Gen Li, Mengya Zhu, Xiao-Ran Sun, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Scalable and highly fault-tolerant circular quantum Byzantine agreement, Science China Information Sciences 69 (8), 180502 (2026) .

3. Ming-Yang Li*, Chen-Xun Weng*, Wen-Bo Liu*, Mengya Zhu, Zeng-Bing Chen, Information-theoretically secure quantum timestamping with one-time universal hashing, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 68, 100312 (2025).

4. Xu Jing*, Cheng Qian*, Chen-Xun Weng*, Bing-Hong Li*, Zhe Chen, Chen-Quan Wang, Jie Tang, Xiao-Wen Gu, Yue-Chan Kong, Tang-Sheng Chen, Hua-Lei Yin, Dong Jiang, Bin Niu, Liang-Liang Lu,  Experimental Quantum Byzantine Agreement on a Three-User Quantum Network with Integrated Photonics, Science Advances 10, eadp2877 (2024).

5. 翁晨洵(Chen-Xun Weng), 李明阳(Ming-Yang Li), 尹华磊(Hua-Lei Yin), 陈增兵(Zeng-Bing Chen), 量子区块链共识协议、应用与展望(Quantum Byzantine agreement in blockchain: protocol, application and outlook), 信息通信技术与政策 (Information and Communications Technology and Policy) 50 (7), 59-68 (2024).

6. Chen-Xun Weng*, Rui-Qi Gao*, Yu Bao, Bing-Hong Li, Wen-Bo Liu, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Beating the fault-tolerance bound and security loopholes for Byzantine agreement with a quantum solution, Research 6, 0272 (2023). 

7. Ao Shen, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yang Wang, Yao Fu, Jie Gu, Wen-Bo Liu, Chen-Xun Weng, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Experimental quantum secret sharing based on phase encoding of coherent states, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 66, 260311 (2023).

8. Yuan-Mei Xie, Jun-Lin Bai, Yu-Shuo Lu, Chen-Xun Weng, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Advantages of Asynchronous Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution in Intercity Networks, Physical Review Applied 19 (5), 054070 (2023).

9. Yuan-Mei Xie, Chen-Xun Weng, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yao Fu, Yang Wang, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Scalable high-rate twin-field quantum key distribution networks without constraint of probability and intensity, Physical Review A 107 (4), 042603 (2023).

10. Hua-Lei Yin, Yao Fu, Chen-Long Li, Chen-Xun Weng, Bing-Hong Li, Jie Gu, Yu-Shuo Lu, Shan Huang, Zeng-Bing Chen, Experimental quantum secure network with digital signatures and encryption, National Science Review 10 (4), nwac228 (2023).

11. Rui-Qi Gao, Yuan-Mei Xie, Jie Gu, Wen-Bo Liu, Chen-Xun Weng, Bing-Hong Li, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Simple security proof of coherent-one-way quantum key distribution, Optics Express 30 (13), 23783-23795 (2022).

12. Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Chen-Xun Weng, Xiao-Yu Cao, Zhao-Ying Jia, Yu Bao, Yang Wang, Yao Fu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Breaking the rate-loss bound of quantum key distribution with asynchronous two-photon interference, PRX Quantum 3 (2), 020315 (2022).

13. Bing-Hong Li, Yuan-Mei Xie, Zhao Li, Chen-Xun Weng, Chen-Long Li, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Long-distance twin-field quantum key distribution with entangled sources, Optics Letters 46 (22), 5529-5532 (2021).

14. Wen-Bo Liu, Chen-Long Li, Yuan-Mei Xie, Chen-Xun Weng, Jie Gu, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yu-Shuo Lu, Bing-Hong Li, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Homodyne Detection Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with High Excess Noise, PRX Quantum 2 (4), 040334 (2021).

2020-2021 (Undergraduate)

15. Zhao Li, Xiao-Yu Cao, Chen-Long Li, Chen-Xun Weng, Jie Gu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen,  Finite-key analysis for quantum conference key agreement with asymmetric channels, Quantum Science and Technology 6 (4), 045019 (2021).

16. Chen-Xun Weng*, Yu-Shuo Lu*, Rui-Qi Gao, Yuan-Mei Xie, Jie Gu, Chen-Long Li, Bing-Hong Li, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen,  Secure and practical multiparty quantum digital signatures, Optics Express 29 (17), 27661-27673 (2021). 

17. Yu-Shuo Lu, Xiao-Yu Cao, Chen-Xun Weng, Jie Gu, Yuan-Mei Xie, Min-Gang Zhou, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen, Efficient quantum digital signatures without symmetrization step,  Optics Express 29 (7), 10162-10171 (2021). 

Patents 

Note that authors listed are seemed as being contributed equally in Patents.

1. Hua-Lei Yin, Chen-Xun Weng, Fu Yao, Zeng-Bing Chen, Quantum digital signature method and quantum digital signcryption method, US 12395352B2 Aug. 19,2025

2. Hua-Lei Yin, Rui-Qi Gao, Chen-Xun Weng, Zeng-Bing Chen, A decentralized quantum Byzantine consensus system, CN 114553423B,  July 29, 2022

3.  Hua-Lei Yin, Chen-Xun Weng, Fu Yao, Zeng-Bing Chen, A quantum digital signature and signcryption method, CN 113779645B, Feb. 22, 2022