QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Aim and Purpose

About a century ago, the theory of quantum mechanics was born. By virtue of its extraordinary explanatory power this theory has not only dramatically changed to the way we see the world, but also led to a first quantum revolution that has brought us groundbreaking new technologies such as the transistor, solid-state lighting, lasers, and GPS.

Today, we are paving the way for a second revolution. With quantum theory now fully established, we are beginning to look at the world in a fundamentally new way: objects can be in different states at the same time ("superposition") and can be deeply connected without any direct physical interaction ("entanglement"). By way of breathtaking advances in creating and manipulating dedicated entangled and/or superimposed quantum states, new technologies will emerge that promise to change our society in the next 5-20 years through revolutionary methods in imaging, sensing, communication, simulation and computation. However, in many of the related research fields, we are still at the beginning of transferring theory into technology.

The purpose of this symposium is therefore to provide an interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of experience and information as well as sharing recent findings in the field of single photon based quantum technologies. The symposium will cover a rather broad range of topics, since “single photons” are one important basis for many quantum technologies, such as single-photon detectors and sources, metrology and sensing, correlations and entanglement, communication and QKD, information processing, or integrated photonic quantum circuits.

Symposium Topics

Since “single photons” are one important basis for many quantum technologies, the symposium will cover a rather broad range of topics, such as:

• Single-photon detectors
• Single-photon sources
• Quantum metrology
• Quantum correlations and entanglement
• Quantum information processing
• Quantum communication and QKD
• Quantum sensing
• Integrated photonic quantum circuits

Invited Speakers

• Rainer Blatt (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• Tommaso Calarco (University Ulm, Germany)
• Fedor Jelezko (University Ulm, Germany)
• Giovanna Morigi (University Saarbrücken, Germany)
• Mark Thompson (University of Bristol, UK)
• Rinaldo Trotta (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
• Edo Waks (University of Maryland, USA)
• Hugo Zbinden (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
• Val Zwiller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Abstract Submission

Registration and abstract submission is now open on the symposium website.
The deadline for abstract submission is January 28, 2019.

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