Long Distance Entanglement Between Quantum Memories

Yong Yu obtained his bachelor's degree from Jilin University in 2014. Then, he joined the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he graduated cum laude and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 2020. His research interests mainly focus on cold atom-based quantum networks. He has published many excellent works in journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics, and Physical Review Letters. Due to his outstanding work during his Ph.D. study, he was awarded the President Special Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His doctoral dissertation was rated as excellent by USTC and the CAS. Now, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Delft University of Technology.