QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

• 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.

The Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN) is part of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), which is the largest public research institution in Italy.  Research at the Rome unit is focused on the development of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) integrated with advanced optical cavities and passive quantum-optics circuits on semiconducting materials. IFN-CNR exploits a 200 m2 clean room facility, equipped with a 100 kV Electron Beam Lithography system together with all the tools needed for micro and nanofabrication. 

quantum software, quantum algorithms, quantum lower bounds, quantum communication, quantum cryptography

• Quantum statistical inference: metrology, estimation theory, hypothesis testing
• Quantumness, quantum coherence
• Quantum Shannon theory
• Entanglement theory and other quantum resource theories
• Quantum simulators
• Quantum thermodynamics

• Ulta-cold gases and quantum optics