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

University of Science and Technology of China The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is a public university in Hefei, China. It is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education of the People' ...

(USTC) and

Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...

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

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and

The World Academy of Sciences The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) is a North–south research partnerships, merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting more than 1,400 scientists in some 1 ...

Biography

Guo was born in

Hui'an County () is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian coast, between Quanzhou and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as o ...

Quanzhou Quanzhou 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, People's Republic of China. It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region, wi ...

Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern 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 capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guo, Guangcan Living people Educators from Fujian Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Academic staff of Peking University People from Quanzhou Physicists from Fujian Quantum physicists TWAS fellows Academic staff of the University of Science and Technology of China Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the Chinese Optical Society