Congruent melting of tungsten phosphide at 5 GPa and 3200℃ for growing its large single crystals

As one of important members of refractory materials,tungsten phosphide(WP)holds great potential for fundamental study and industrial applications in many fields of science and technology,due to its excellent properties such as superconductivity and as-predicted topological band structure.However,synthesis of high-quality WP crystals is still a challenge by using tradition synthetic methods,because the synthesis temperature for growing its large crystals is very stringently required to be as high as 3000℃,which is far beyond the temperature capability of most laboratory-based devices for crystal growth.In addition,high temperature often induces the decomposition of metal phosphides,leading to off-stoichiometric samples based on which the materials'intrinsic properties cannot be explored.In this work,we report a high-pressure synthesis of single-crystal WP through a direct crystallization from cooling the congruent W-P melts at 5 GPa and^3200℃.In combination of x-ray diffraction,electron microscope,and thermal analysis,the crystal structure,morphology,and stability of recovered sample are well investigated.The final product is phase-pure and nearly stoichiometric WP in a single-crystal form with a large grain size,in excess of one millimeter,thus making it feasible to implement most experimental measurements,especially,for the case where a large crystal is required.Success in synthesis of high-quality WP crystals at high pressure can offer great opportunities for determining their intrinsic properties and also making more efforts to study the family of transition-metal phosphides.

Heralded hyper-CNOT gates for two-photon systems assisted by quantum scattering in waveguides

Photonic hyper-parallel quantum gates play a critical role in high-capacity quantum communication and fast quantum computing.Here,based on photon scattering in onedimensional(1D)waveguides,we present some heralded schemes for constructing four-qubit hyper-controlled-not(hyper-CNOT)gates in two-photon systems.The qubits are encoded on both the polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedoms(DOFs)of the photons,which can simplify the quantum circuit and reduce the quantum resource consumption.In our schemes,the faulty scattering events between photons and emitters caused by system imperfections can be filtered out and discarded.That is,our protocols for hyper-CNOT gates work in a heralded way.Our calculations show that,with great progress in the emitter-waveguide systems,our photonic hyper-CNOT gates may be experimentally feasible.