QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Development and applications of advanced laser-based methods for high-performance optical sensing

Metrology with frequency comb synthesizers and absolute optical frequency references

Whispering-gallery-mode resonators made from solid & liquid dielectric media: cavity optomechanics and biosensing with metallic and dielectric nanoparticles

Fiber-optic resonators and interferometers: investigation on fundamental thermal noise limit

Excitation of surface-plasmon phenomena in high-Q optical resonators

The Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP) is a virtual institute uniting over 190 physicists from EU, USA, China, Russia, Australia, Latin America. Its goal is promotion of international research projects involving European scientists currently based oversees. The Scientific Council of MIFP is headed by Prof. Boris Altshuler (Columbia university, New York). The Scientific Director of MIFP is Prof. Alexey Kavokin (Southampton university, UK, CNR-SPIN, Italy, Russian Quantumm Center). MIFP involves a plethora of leading theoretical quantum physicists, e.g.

A participatory workshop on Quantum Technologies and Industry was held in Brussels on 6 May 2015. The aim was to identify what could be the markets for quantum technologies, and how these could be industrialised. The workshop report (available here) summarises the discussions and the action plan which emerged as a conclusion.

"for his seminal contributions to many interdisciplinary topics in quantum physics, which range from degenerate quantum gases to quantum nanooptics and opto-nanomechanics, and have opened new doors both for theory and for experiments."

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DK MataiChairman and Founder at Quantum Innovation Labs (QiLabs.net) take a look of what he believes are the 10 key facts for investing in the Quantum Technologies field.

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Quantum Information
We are interested in entanglement theory, non-locality, as well as in developing low-control schemes to generate entanglement in solids. Furthermore, we investigate quantum walks and their applications to quantum algorithms and quantum simulation. Finally, we collaborate with other colleagues at IT in the development and quantum optical implementation of cryptographic protocols.

E. G. Brow, W. Donnelly, A. Kempf, R. B. Mann, E. Martín-Martínez, and N. C. Menicucci
New Journal of Physics 16, 105020 (2014)

Entanglement farming is a protocol that involves successively sending pairs of “particle detectors” (such as atoms, ions, molecules, etc) transversely through an optical cavity. As pair after pair traverses the cavity, the field approaches a fixed-point state, where every pair of atoms emerges from the cavity in the same state, which is generically entangled. The fixed point is generally stable to small changes in the parameters.