QUIE2T Quantum Information Entanglement-Enabled Technologies

Physicists in Germany have used fluorescence imaging to identify individual particles in an optical lattice for the first time. The breakthrough could allow researchers to create more advanced simulations of quantum phenomena and it might help in the quest for practical quantum computing.

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The Commission ICT Work-Programme 2011-2012 feature an interesting Objective under FET-Open, namely "Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research". This consist in a funding scheme that provides additional funding to existing grant for on-going FET IPs and STREPs ending at least 18 months after the submission date of the proposal (click on the tab below to access the full Objective text as published in the WP).

Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research

Target outcomes

This objective aims to increase and accelerate the impact of FET research projects by cooperating with non-EU partners of excellent global standing. It targets the extension of ongoing FET projects with complementary research activities in which collaboration with non-EU¹ research partners brings significant added value.

The research content is expected to focus on new activities that expand the research challenges and reinforce the impact of the ongoing project. The outcome of that research is expected to be made freely and openly available for the benefit of the research community.

Funding can be requested by the partners from the ongoing FET project and by the new non- EU research participants to cover the coordination and joint research activities necessary to complement the ongoing project. Proposals must be presented by the coordinator of the on- going project.

 

Expected Impact 

• Enhanced outcomes, global reach and impact of ongoing FET research projects through research collaboration with non-EU participants with complementary expertise;
• Research cooperation between world-class EU and non-EU researcher teams reinforced, thus facilitating the emergence of global alliances.

Funding scheme

Additional funding to existing grant for on-going FET² IP and STREP projects ending at least 18 months after the submission date of the proposal.

Indicative budget distribution

EUR 3 million³

Call

FP7-ICT-2011-C Proposals are continuously receivable until 12 March 2013. One-step submission and evaluation process and specific eligibility and evaluation criteria (see Appendix 5⁴).

¹ The new participating organisations cannot be located in EU Member States or in Associated Countries
² Ongoing projects selected under any of the FET objectives of the FP7 ICT Work Programmes
³ Indicative budget which is expected to be committed for successful proposals from the cut-off dates of 17/05/2011 up to and including 10/04/2012 (batch 11 to batch 13 included)
⁴ Proposals submitted to FET-Open Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research are subject to the following additional eligibility criteria: Proposals must be presented by the coordinator of an on-going FET IP or STREP project ending at least 18 months after the submission date of the proposal.

 

The call details are available in our FP7 Relevant Calls section.

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.

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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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An international team of physicists (involving physicists C. Monroe and A. Acin from the AQUTE and Q-ESSENCE projects respectively) has created the first system that can produce verifiably random numbers. The technique relies on the inherent uncertainties in quantum mechanics and future versions could help cryptographers to encode information more securely than ever before.

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Two groups, one led by Markus Oberthaler at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and the other by Philipp Treutlein of the AQUTE project, at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, have shown that quantum entanglement can make the measurement technique used by atomic clocks even more precise.

The full story can be read at Nature News.
Have also a look at the following AQUTE highlight.