Journal of the Optical Society of America B Announcement

1,200 people are gathered in London right now for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF, ietf.org) meeting that happens thrice a year. IETF's sister organization, the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF, irtf.org) generally meets with them. IRTF conducts work both in person and online, via mailing lists, in what are known as Research Groups. IRTF is *pre-standardization*; any RFCs (Request for Comments documents in formal form) are either Experimental or Informational.

A new Scientific and Technical Research Report (EUR) has been published that details how the current and future Quantum Communication technologies should impact EU's policies.

The full report (which is 85 pages long) can be downloaded here.

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 effects are in use since the 20th century and have led to market shaping innovations like semiconductor electronics and lasers. In the 21st century, quantum technology developments focus on the controlled quantum state of individual or coupled systems. While this quantum technology is still in the research stage, it offers an enormous potential and a number of initiatives worldwide have been formed to foster the technology and its commercial potential.

Keynote Speakers:

Quantum effects are in use since the 20th century and have led to market shaping innovations like semiconductor electronics and lasers. In the 21st century, quantum technology developments focus on the controlled quantum state of individual or coupled systems. While this quantum technology is still in the research stage, it offers an enormous potential and a number of initiatives worldwide have been formed to foster the technology and its commercial potential.

Keynote Speakers:

We would like to inform you that the Editorial Office of Wiley-VCH is currently preparing the launch of a new journal, Advanced Quantum Technologies (www.advquantumtech.com). The journal is now open for submission.

The aim of the proposed work is to realize experimentally the first genuinely quantum mechanical refrigerator/heat engine in the solid state, and test whether one can boost its performance by information/feedback, optimized control, and merely by exploiting the quantum coherences vs the classical dynamics. To achieve this goal, we will investigate experimentally and theoretically the thermodynamics of open quantum systems.

In a recent post on his blog, EC vice-president and Commissioner for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, expresses his hopes and vision for the Quantum Technologies.