QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

The purpose of this first CHIST-ERA conference will be to bring together personalities and scientists from the community of the call topics (Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies and Self-Awareness & Self-Consciousness) preliminarily chosen by the CHIST-ERA Consortium and that will be called for in the first CHIST-ERA transnational call for projects.

Making an opaque material transparent might seem like magic. But for well over a decade, physicists have been able to do just that in atomic gases using the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Now, however, this seemingly magical effect has been observed in single atoms – and in "artificial" atoms consisting of a superconducting loop – for the first time.

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• Quantum Information Theory and Computation (Beige, Dunningham, Kendon, Pachos, Spiller)
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Dunningham, Beige, Spiller)
• Optical and Solid State Implementations (Beige, Pachos, Spiller)
• Bose Einstein Condensation (Dunningham, Pachos, Spiller)
• Topological Quantum Computation (Pachos)
• Quantum Simulations and Transport (Kendon)
• Quantum Cryptography (Razavi, Spiller, Beige)
• Quantum Communication Networks (Razavi)

Physicists in the US (including AQUTE physicist C. Monroe) have used an optical "frequency comb" to reliably entangle a pair of atomic qubits. The breakthrough bodes well for practicable quantum computing because it allows for simpler manipulation of quantum states than in previous systems.

Physicists in Germany and France (including AQUTE members Theodor W. Hänsch, Jakob Reichel, and Philipp Treutlein) have coupled a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultracold atoms to the vibrations of a mechanical oscillator for the first time.

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Theory of quantum gases and experiments with ultracold gases

• Superconducting circuits (Josephson junctions)
• Semiconductor circuits
• Nanofabrication 

• Spintronics and molecular electronics 
• Single molecular magnets

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Theory and simulation

• theory of multi-spin systems defined in quantum dots as qubit holders
• Finite Element Method-based simulations of CMOS compatible nanodevices 
• dynamical decoupling and quantum error correction schemes to mitigate the decoherence effects in qubits
• theory of shallow donors in silicon

Experiment

• Quantum computing
• Quantum simulation
• Quantum sensing
• Quantum control
• Quantum Engineering
• Ion trapping