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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Meng WANG at Sun Yan-sen University has been awarded the prestigious Dan Tsui Fellowship by the Hong Kong Institute of Quantum Science & Technology (HKIQST) at The University of Hong Kong. The fellowship was conferred through a highly selective process conducted by the Selection Panel, comprising Advisory Board Members Prof. FENG Donglai, Prof. Jason HO Tin Lun, Prof. Hoi Kwong LO, and Prof. Xiangang WAN, assisted with HKIQST Executive Members Prof. Zidan WANG, Prof. Wang YAO, Prof. Xiaobo YIN, and Prof. Shizhong ZHANG. Prof. WANG’s groundbreaking realization of superconductivity in nickelates La₃Ni₂O₇ (Nature, 2023) has established a third class of high Tc superconductors, complementing the renowned families of oxide and iron based compounds. This landmark discovery has already stimulated extensive experimental and theoretical investigations, particularly into superconductivity under pressure, and is expected to catalyze further advances in the field. We warmly welcome Prof. WANG to the HKIQST community and look forward to the invaluable insights and contributions his presence will inspire. His fellowship marks not only a personal achievement but also a significant step forward for superconductivity research. Congratulations to Prof. Meng WANG!

Relativistic zero-knowledge proofs (RZKP) exploit the no-superluminal principle between spatially separated provers, offering a use case of phishing-proof identity verification — but prior demonstrations required 60 meters of separation, and soundness against entangled provers remained open. In this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14324), we address both. From an engineering perspective, we push the entire challenge-response path onto FPGAs and account for latency transceiver-by-transceiver, cutting the round-trip window to 100 ns and halving the required separation to 30 meters. These techniques are protocol-agnostic and transfer to any relativistic protocol. Deploying across two rooms of a working office building, we scale to six million rounds and provide the first phase-by-phase timing decomposition of an RZKP implementation. The bottleneck is not the physics. It is network packet processing during verification — isolated by a single-verifier three-prover variant that eliminates inter-verifier communication. On the theory side, we prove the entangled-soundness bound for a two-prover graph-coloring RZKP, via a modified protocol and a reduction through almost-commuting operator assignments. The bound is real, but loose: |E|⁸ scaling, against the |E|⁴ of the known three-prover result. We identify exactly where each penalty is paid, offering the reduction chain as a reusable template for lifting classical soundness proofs — and a map of its costs.

The HK Institute of Quantum Science & Technology is proud to be a co-organizer of the upcoming 2026 Joint Annual Conference of Physical Societies in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which will be held at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) from July 14 to July 18, 2026. The conference will be held at Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). This premier regional forum brings together physics professionals, researchers, students, and industry experts across Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Macau to engage in thematic discussions, share cutting-edge research, and foster collaboration within the physics community. The conference aims to strengthen regional academic ties and promote innovative exchanges that will advance the field of physics and related sciences. The event is organized in partnership with the Physical Society of Hong Kong, Guangdong Physics Society, The Physical Society of Macau, the Quantum Science Centre of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Qebula Mind Limited. The conference will cover a broad range of key topics, including: • Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Quantum Physics • Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics • Materials Physics and Engineering • Biophysics and Soft Matter • Astrophysics and Astronomy • Scattering, Particle, Nuclear, and Plasma Physics • Interdisciplinary and Applied Physics • Physics Education We invite all interested parties to participate in this exciting gathering and look forward to welcoming the global physics community to Hong Kong for this outstanding event. For more details and to participate, please refer to the official poster and event information at YGA 2026 Website (https://www.qebulamind.com/yga2026).