Guo Guangcan (; born 9 December 1942) is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor at the

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(USTC) and

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(PKU). He works on quantum information, quantum communication and quantum optic. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and

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Biography

Guo was born in Hui'an County,

Quanzhou Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

province in 1942.

Honors

* 2003, State Natural Science Second Class Award * 2003, AWARDEE OF THCHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE * 2003, members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences * 2009, Fellow of THE WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Selected papers

# Beating the standard quantum limit: phase super-sensitivity of N-photon interferometers # Efficient Scheme for Two-Atom Entanglement and Quantum Information Processing in Cavity QED # Experimental control of the transition from Markovian to non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems # Experimental investigation of classical and quantum correlations under decoherence # Experimental investigation of the entanglement-assisted entropic uncertainty principle

References

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