QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

• Quantum state engineering in mesoscopic systems
• Decoherence
• Geometric phases and dissipation
• Spintronics
• Nonlinear phenomena

• Electron transport in hybrid nanostructures
• Single electron tunnelling
• Spintronics
• Molecular electronics
• Quantum computing with superconducting qubits
• Decoherence in superconducting devices

• Quantum computation with superconducting rings
• Electron spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots
• Semiconducting nanowires

Theory of superconductivity; superconducting electronics; Andreev scattering processes; quantum circuits and networks with Josephson junctions; charge and flux qubits;robust quantum algorithms

Solid state quantum optics

Quantum spintronics with defect spins

Ultraprecise quantum metrology: measurements of magnetic and electric fields

Plasmonics

Rare earth spin systems

• Superconducting Quantum Information Processing
• Quantum Optics
• Cavity/Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
• Mesoscopic Physics

• Photonic crystals
• Quantum Dots
• Charge and spin qubits
• Optical spectroscopy
• Semiconductor Nanostructures
• Quantum Optics

• Superconducting qubits
• Quantum coherence
• Atomic size contacts
• Electron interactions
• Coulomb blockade
• Single electron tunneling
• Mesoscopic physics
• Superconductivity
• Nanofabrication