QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

This winter school is a residential school for young researchers (predoctoral, to early post doctoral) working in the areas of cold atoms, out-of-equilibrium quantum physics and quantum technologies, organized by the European Training Network ColOpt. The venue is in Herrsching am Ammersee near Munich in the scenic alpine foreland. The programme includes research presentations and interactive sessions of esteemed speakers and a young scientist workshop with talks from rising stars.

Thematic scope of proposals should include one or more of the following areas:

The launch of the projects funded within the QuantERA Call 2017 will be officially celebrated at the Projects’ Launch Event in Bucharest, Romania.

The event will take place on:

• Quantum information theory - channel capacity, Rényi entropies and non-i.i.d. in general
• Randomness - weak randomness and pseudorandomness, extraction, applications, unitary k-designs
• Cryptography - mainly security of cryptographic protocols and primitives in connection with randomness
• Quantum cryptography, communication, and information theory in general.

Quantum optics with single molecules

Single photons sources

Single Nano-objects Spectroscopy

Superresolution microscopies 

Thirty research funding organisations from 26 countries throughout take part in the Call that has a deadline for pre-proposals on the 15th of March 2015.

The Call covers six main topics in the Q-ICST field:

QuantERA is a network of 31 agencies from 26 countries, coordinated by the National Science Centre, Poland. With a budget of over EUR 34 M, including co-funding from the European Commission, QuantERA will support international research projects in the field of Quantum Technologies.

cold-atom solid state hydbrid quantum systems, atom chip, atomic clock, BEC, atom laser, atom-surface interaction, cold-atom scanning probe microscopy, Rydberg atoms, QIP

• Quantum Optics
• Quantum Communication
• Nanophotonics
• Quantum Dots
• Single and Entangled Photons from semiconductor-based devices
• Quantum-light-emitting diodes
• Artificial-natural atomic interfaces

Relevant Publications

R. Trotta, at al., "Wavelength-tunable sources of entangled photons interfaced with atomic vapors" Nature Comm. 7, 10375 (2016).

Our research group explores and builds on quantum effects at the nanoscale occuring in individual well-controlled solid-state impurities. Our activity is developped along two lines.