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ProfessorYeong-Cherng Liang

  • Position Professor
    Name Yeong-Cherng Liang
    Ext 65239
    Office 36577
    Education Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia (澳洲昆士蘭大學博士)
    E-mail ycliang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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    Speciality Quantum Nonlocality (量子非局域性), Quantum Foundations (量子力學的基礎), Quantum Information Theory (量子資訊理論)
    • 2020.08 - : Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (教授, 國立成功大學物理系)
    • 2017.08 - 2020.07: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (副教授, 國立成功大學物理系)
    • 2015.02 - 2017.07: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (助理教授, 國立成功大學物理系)
    • 2013.07 - 2015.01: Postdoc, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (博士後, 瑞士蘇黎世聯邦理工學院理論物理研究中心)
    • 2012.10 - 2013.06: Maitre Assistant, GAP-Optique, Department of Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland [助理教授, 瑞士日內瓦大學物理系應用物理(光學)組]
    • 2011.08 - 2012.09: Attache de Recherche, GAP-Optique, Department of Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland [研究助理, 瑞士日內瓦大學物理系應用物理(光學)組]
    • 2010.08 - 2011.07: Postdoc, GAP-Optique, Department of Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland [博士後, 瑞士日內瓦大學物理系應用物理(光學)組]
    • 2008.04 - 2010.07: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia (博士後, 澳大利亞雪梨大學物理系)
    • 2008.01 - 2008.04: Research Officer, Department of Physics, University of Queensland, Australia (研究人員, 澳大利亞昆士蘭大學物理系)
    • 2001.02 - 2004.06: Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore, Singapore (助教, 新加坡國立大學)
    • 2021, Kai-Chun Chen (陳愷駿), Master, Device-independent certification of desirable properties with a confidence interval
    • 2021, Pei-Sheng Lin (林霈昇), Ph.D., Device-independent certification: theory and some
      practical considerations
    • 2019, Jyun-Yi Li (李峻禕), Master, Hidden Teleportation Power for Entangled Quantum States (co-supervised with Dr. Gelo Noel Tabia)
    • 2019, Shih-Xian Yang (楊世賢), Master, Multipartite Bell-inequality violation using randomly chosen triads
    • 2017, Jui-Chen Hung (洪瑞晨), Master, Witnesses for entanglement depth: from device-independence to device-dependence
    • 2017, Rui-Yang You (尤瑞揚), Master, Visualizing the set of 3-local and 3-quantum correlation (co-supervised with Dr. Denis Rosset)
    • Quantum resources: from identification, characterization, to utilization, funded by MOST from 2020.08-2023.07
    • Quantum nonlocality: generalizations and applications in quantum information, funded by MOST from 2018.06-2020.07
    • Quantum entanglement, quantum nonlocality, and device-independent characterizations, funded by MOST from 2015.07-2018.08
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    Selected (recent) publications:
    • A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox, Nat. Phys. 16, 1119 (2020).
    • Quantum fidelity measures for mixed states, Rep. Prog. Phys. 82, 076001 (2019).
    • Entanglement Structure: Entanglement Partitioning in Multipartite Systems and Its Experimental Detection Using Optimizable Witnesses, Phys. Rev. X 8, 021072 (2018).
    • Resource Theory of Quantum Memories and Their Faithful Verification with Minimal Assumptions, Phys. Rev. X 8, 021033 (2018).
    • Natural Framework for Device-Independent Quantification of Quantum Steerability, Measurement Incompatibility, and Self-Testing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240401 (2016).
    • Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality with Entangled Photons, Phys. Rev. X 5, 041052 (2015).
    • Family of Bell-like Inequalities as Device-Independent Witnesses for Entanglement Depth, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190401 (2015).
    • Arbitrarily Small Amount of Measurement Independence Is Sufficient to Manifest Quantum Nonlocality, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190402 (2014).
    • Anonymous Quantum Nonlocality, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130401 (2014).
    • Device-independent Entanglement Quantification and Related Applications, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030501 (2013).
    • Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Witnesses for All Entangled Quantum States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 060405 (2013).
    • Quantum Nonlocality Based on Finite-speed Causal Influences Leads to Superluminal Signaling, Nature Phys. 8, 867 (2012).
    • Guaranteed Violation of a Bell inequality without Aligned Reference Frames or Calibrated Devices, Sci. Rep. 2, 470 (2012).
    • Specker's Parable of the Overprotective Seer: A Road to Contextuality, Nonlocality, and Complementarity, Phys. Rep. 506, 1 (2011).
    • Device-Independent Witnesses of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250404 (2011).
    • Detecting Genuine Multipartite Quantum Nonlocality: A Simple Approach and Generalization to Arbitrary Dimensions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020405 (2011).
    • Nonclassical Correlations from Randomly Chosen Local Measurements, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 050401 (2010).
    • 2020 - Institute of Physics (IOP) trusted reviewer award
    • 2020 - Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators ( 中央研究院年輕學者研究著作獎 )
    • 2019 - Ta-You Wu Memorial Award by the Ministry of Science & Technologies ( 科技部「108年度吳大猷先生紀念獎」)
    • 2018 - Young Theoretical Scholar Award by the National Center for Theoretical Sciences ( 國家理論科學研究中心「年輕理論學者獎」)
    • 2018 - Teaching Award by National Cheng Kung University ( 106學年度教學優良教師 )
    • 2018 - The Young Scholars' Creativity Award by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship ( 傑出人才發展基金會第六屆「年輕學者創新獎」)
    • 2015 - Most Valued Reviewer of 2014 awarded by Annals of Physics