FET-Proactive


FP7: FET Proactive Intiative: Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies(QI-FT)

NEWS

  • 1st International Conference on Quantum Technologies (ICQT-2011)
    July 13-17, 2011- Moscow(RU)
    This conference is planned as a kick-off meeting of the fresh born Russian Quantum Center (RQC), the associate of Skolkovo Foundation.
    The first RQC conference will bring together interdisciplinary experts from various fields exploring frontiers of quantum technologies.
    Key information is summarized in the preliminary program of the meeting. The meeting format will be based on 30 minutes talks by invited speakers and will include two evenings of post- er sessions and informal discussions.  
  • International conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) 2011,
    September 5 - 9, 2011 - Zurich (CH)
    The conference program will include invited talks, contributed talks and poster presentations covering a broad range of topics:
    • quantum information and quantum communication
    • physical realizations of quantum systems for information technology such as photons, single atoms, ions, molecules, nuclear and electron spins, superconducting circuits, micro- and nano-mechanics, hybrid quantum systems
    • topical subjects, including cavity QED, optical lattices, quantum memories, foundations of quantum information, and many-body systems
    An industry session and a funding opportunities session is also part of the program.
    The conference is supported by the EU Coordination Action QUIE2T (Quantum Information Entanglement-Enabled Technologies) the European Integrated Projects AQUTE, QESSENCE and SOLID, the National Centre of Competence in Research QSIT and ETH Zurich.
  • Financial Times article "Computers set for quantum leap" (By Clive Cookson in Birmingham - autumn 2010)
    "A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity has been built by an international research team, paving the way for the production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices........."
  • ICT FP7 FET CALL 4 Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies: FUNDED PROJECTS

WHAT IS QI-FT ?

FET proactive initiative: Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies
(Extract from Work programme 2009-2010 /Objective 2009.8.2 - Call 4)

New perspectives in ICT that exploit the quantum nature of information offer modes of computing and communicating that are not mere down-scaling of silicon CMOS based architectures,thus providing a "beyond Moore" route to circumvent the bottlenecks associated with the extrapolation of present-day information processing and technologies.

Target outcome:

  1. Quantum information theory, algorithms and paradigms: new quantum algorithms, computation paradigms and communication protocols, quantum optimal control and quantum feedback methods.
  2. Entanglement-enabled quantum technologies exploiting several qubits for performing ICT tasks with unprecedented characteristics (e.g., quantum random numbers generators, improved atomic clocks, entanglement enhanced metrology, sensors and imaging) and engineering of entangled systems.
  3. Scalability of quantum processing systems: devices realizing quantum algorithms with up to ten qubits, demonstrating fault tolerant computing and error correction on small scale systems, and demonstrating quantum simulation of systems that cannot be simulated classically.
  4. Long distance quantum communication: technologies able to overcome the current distance limitation of quantum communication, e.g., by developing quantum repeaters realizing reversible interconversion of different types of qubits.

The research work should advance the state-of-the-art of QIPC and contribute to the transition of the field from upstream research to application-oriented research, e.g., through the increased reliability, scalability and interconnection of components. Interplay between theory and experiment should achieve complete and realistic schemes for coherent manipulation and high-precision performance.

Projects should address at least two of the above topics.

Short abstract from the Work Programme 2009-2010 ( 345KB)

Expected impact:

  • Enable the scalability of quantum information technologies in the presence of environmental decoherence, hence facilitating their real-world deployment.
  • Develop reliable technologies for the different components of quantum architectures.
  • Identify new opportunities fostered through the transfer of entanglement technologies from laboratories to industries.

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PRACTICAL INFO CALL 4

 

TIMETABLE QI-FT in CAll 4

  • Call launched:19 November 2008
  • Deadline for submission of pre-proposals : 11 March 2009
  • Deadline for submission of proposals : 01 April 2009
  • Tentative: Evaluation: May - June 2009
  • Tentative: Negotiations: Autumn 2009
  • Tentative: Start of projects : Dec 2009 - Jan-Febr 2010

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