Quantum Communications for ALL

Informazioni relative al progetto

QCALL

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 675662

DOI 10.3030/675662

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 10 Agosto 2016

Data di avvio 1 Dicembre 2016

Data di completamento 31 Maggio 2021

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Costo totale € 3 924 884,52

Contributo UE € 3 924 884,52

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
United Kingdom

Risultati finali

Other (9)

Outreach Del. 1

Outreach Day 1: local public-science events

Overall Recruitment

To be managed by Recruitment Committee

Training Del. 7

PhD awards for graduating ESRs

Training Del. 3

School on Quantum Secure Communications

D&I Del. 3

Conference Presentations

D&I Del. 2

Final Network Symposium

Outreach Del. 4

Outreach Day 3: QCALL Open Day

D&I Del. 1

Early-Stage Researchers Conference

Training Del. 4

School on Quantum Communications Networks

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Outreach Del. 3

Outreach Day 2: Science film festival

Website Completion

To be developed by professional designers

Outreach Del. 2

Story of the month on website

Documents, reports (2)

Scientific Del. 8

Roadmap for future quantum networks

D&I Del. 4

Publications in high-impact journals

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (53)

Resource-effective quantum key distribution: a field trial in Padua city center

Autori: Marco Avesani, Luca Calderaro, Giulio Foletto, Costantino Agnesi, Francesco Picciariello, Francesco B. L. Santagiustina, Alessia Scriminich, Andrea Stanco, Francesco Vedovato, Mujtaba Zahidy, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi
Pubblicato in: Optics Letters, Numero 46/12, 2021, Pagina/e 2848, ISSN 0146-9592
Editore: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.422890

Countermeasure Against Quantum Hacking Using Detection Statistics

Autori: Gaëtan Gras, Davide Rusca, Hugo Zbinden, Félix Bussières
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 15/3, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034052

Semi-Device-Independent Heterodyne-Based Quantum Random-Number Generator

Autori: Marco Avesani, Hamid Tebyanian, Paolo Villoresi, Giuseppe Vallone
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 15/3, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034034

Practical decoy-state method for twin-field quantum key distribution

Autori: Federico Grasselli, Marcos Curty
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 21/7, 2019, Pagina/e 073001, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab2b00

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution with Fully Discrete Phase Randomization

Autori: Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, Lewis Wooltorton, Mohsen Razavi
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 15/1, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.014016

Entropy Bounds for Multiparty Device-Independent Cryptography

Autori: Federico Grasselli, Gláucia Murta, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Pubblicato in: PRX Quantum, Numero 2/1, 2021, ISSN 2691-3399
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/prxquantum.2.010308

Quantum key distribution with flawed and leaky sources

Autori: Margarida Pereira, Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Pubblicato in: npj Quantum Information, Numero 5/1, 2019, ISSN 2056-6387
Editore: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-019-0180-9

Optical control of single-photon negative-feedback avalanche diode detector

Autori: Gaëtan Gras, Nigar Sultana, Anqi Huang, Thomas Jennewein, Félix Bussières, Vadim Makarov, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Journal of Applied Physics, Numero 127/9, 2020, Pagina/e 094502, ISSN 0021-8979
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5140824

Simple quantum key distribution with qubit-based synchronization and a self-compensating polarization encoder

Autori: Costantino Agnesi, Marco Avesani, Luca Calderaro, Andrea Stanco, Giulio Foletto, Mujtaba Zahidy, Alessia Scriminich, Francesco Vedovato, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi
Pubblicato in: Optica, Numero 7/4, 2020, Pagina/e 284, ISSN 2334-2536
Editore: OSA Publishing
DOI: 10.1364/optica.381013

Asymptotic Security of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with a Discrete Modulation

Autori: Shouvik Ghorai, Philippe Grangier, Eleni Diamanti, Anthony Leverrier
Pubblicato in: Physical Review X, Numero 9/2, 2019, ISSN 2160-3308
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.9.021059

Optical and spin manipulation of non-Kramers rare-earth ions in a weak magnetic field for quantum memory applications

Autori: J. Etesse, A. Holzäpfel, A. Ortu, M. Afzelius
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 103/2, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.022618

Experimental quantum conference key agreement

Autori: Massimiliano Proietti, Joseph Ho, Federico Grasselli, Peter Barrow, Mehul Malik, Alessandro Fedrizzi
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, Numero 7/23, 2021, Pagina/e eabe0395, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe0395

Practical Quantum Key Distribution That is Secure Against Side Channels

Autori: Álvaro Navarrete, Margarida Pereira, Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 15/3, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034072

Self-testing quantum random-number generator based on an energy bound

Autori: Davide Rusca, Thomas van Himbeeck, Anthony Martin, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Weixu Shi, Stefano Pironio, Nicolas Brunner, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 100/6, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.062338

Quantum key distribution with correlated sources

Autori: Margarida Pereira, Go Kato, Akihiro Mizutani, Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, Numero 6/37, 2020, Pagina/e eaaz4487, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4487

Finite-key analysis for memory-assisted decoy-state quantum key distribution

Autori: Guillermo Currás Lorenzo, Mohsen Razavi
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 22/10, 2020, Pagina/e 103005, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abb16b

Beating the repeaterless bound with adaptive measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

Autori: Róbert Trényi, Koji Azuma, Marcos Curty
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 21/11, 2019, Pagina/e 113052, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab54aa

Zero-error attack against coherent-one-way quantum key distribution

Autori: Róbert Trényi, Marcos Curty
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 23/9, 2021, Pagina/e 093005, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac1e41

A trusted node–free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network

Autori: Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Djeylan Aktas, Sören Wengerowsky, Martin Lončarić, Sebastian Philipp Neumann, Bo Liu, Thomas Scheidl, Guillermo Currás Lorenzo, Željko Samec, Laurent Kling, Alex Qiu, Mohsen Razavi, Mario Stipčević, John G. Rarity, Rupert Ursin
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, Numero 6/36, 2020, Pagina/e eaba0959, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0959

Efficient Time-Bin Encoding for Practical High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Autori: Ilaria Vagniluca, Beatrice Da Lio, Davide Rusca, Daniele Cozzolino, Yunhong Ding, Hugo Zbinden, Alessandro Zavatta, Leif K. Oxenløwe, Davide Bacco
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 14/1, 2020, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.14.014051

Experimental quantum key distribution beyond the repeaterless secret key capacity

Autori: M. Minder, M. Pittaluga, G. L. Roberts, M. Lucamarini, J. F. Dynes, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields
Pubblicato in: Nature Photonics, Numero 13/5, 2019, Pagina/e 334-338, ISSN 1749-4885
Editore: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0377-7

Finite-key analysis of loss-tolerant quantum key distribution based on random sampling theory

Autori: Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, Álvaro Navarrete, Margarida Pereira, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 104/1, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.012406

Simple Efficient Decoders for Quantum Key Distribution Over Quantum Repeaters with Encoding

Autori: Yumang Jing, Mohsen Razavi
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 15/4, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.044027

Tight finite-key security for twin-field quantum key distribution

Autori: Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, Álvaro Navarrete, Koji Azuma, Go Kato, Marcos Curty, Mohsen Razavi
Pubblicato in: npj Quantum Information, Numero 7/1, 2021, ISSN 2056-6387
Editore: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-020-00345-3

Simultaneous coherence enhancement of optical and microwave transitions in solid-state electronic spins

Autori: Antonio Ortu, Alexey Tiranov, Sacha Welinski, Florian Fröwis, Nicolas Gisin, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Mikael Afzelius
Pubblicato in: Nature Materials, Numero 17/8, 2018, Pagina/e 671-675, ISSN 1476-1122
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0138-x

Simple and high-speed polarization-based QKD

Autori: Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Davide Rusca, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Applied Physics Letters, Numero 112/5, 2018, Pagina/e 051108, ISSN 0003-6951
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5016931

Finite-key analysis for the 1-decoy state QKD protocol

Autori: Davide Rusca, Alberto Boaron, Fadri Grünenfelder, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Applied Physics Letters, Numero 112/17, 2018, Pagina/e 171104, ISSN 0003-6951
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5023340

Simple 2.5 GHz time-bin quantum key distribution

Autori: Alberto Boaron, Boris Korzh, Raphael Houlmann, Gianluca Boso, Davide Rusca, Stuart Gray, Ming-Jun Li, Daniel Nolan, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Applied Physics Letters, Numero 112/17, 2018, Pagina/e 171108, ISSN 0003-6951
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5027030

Finite-key effects in multipartite quantum key distribution protocols

Autori: Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 20/11, 2018, Pagina/e 113014, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aaec34

Patterning-effect mitigating intensity modulator for secure decoy-state quantum key distribution

Autori: G. L. Roberts, M. Pittaluga, M. Minder, M. Lucamarini, J. F. Dynes, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields
Pubblicato in: Optics Letters, Numero 43/20, 2018, Pagina/e 5110, ISSN 0146-9592
Editore: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.43.005110

Spectroscopic study of hyperfine properties in Yb 3 + 171 : Y 2

Autori: Alexey Tiranov, Antonio Ortu, Sacha Welinski, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Nicolas Gisin, Mikael Afzelius
Pubblicato in: Physical Review B, Numero 98/19, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.98.195110

Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber

Autori: Alberto Boaron, Gianluca Boso, Davide Rusca, Cédric Vulliez, Claire Autebert, Misael Caloz, Matthieu Perrenoud, Gaëtan Gras, Félix Bussières, Ming-Jun Li, Daniel Nolan, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Letters, Numero 121/19, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.190502

Quantum repeaters in space

Autori: Carlo Liorni, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 23/5, 2021, Pagina/e 053021, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abfa63

Experimental test of sequential weak measurements for certified quantum randomness extraction

Autori: Giulio Foletto, Matteo Padovan, Marco Avesani, Hamid Tebyanian, Paolo Villoresi, Giuseppe Vallone
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 103/6, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.062206

Wavelength assignment in quantum access networks with hybrid wireless-fiber links

Autori: Sima Bahrani, Osama Elmabrok, Guillermo Currás Lorenzo, Mohsen Razavi
Pubblicato in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Numero 36/3, 2019, Pagina/e B99, ISSN 0740-3224
Editore: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/josab.36.000b99

Asymmetric twin-field quantum key distribution

Autori: Federico Grasselli, Álvaro Navarrete, Marcos Curty
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 21/11, 2019, Pagina/e 113032, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab520e

Upper Security Bounds for Coherent-One-Way Quantum Key Distribution

Autori: Javier González-Payo, Róbert Trényi, Weilong Wang, Marcos Curty
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Letters, Numero 125/26, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.260510

Real-time interferometric quantum random number generation on chip

Autori: Thomas Roger, Taofiq Paraiso, Innocenzo De Marco, Davide G. Marangon, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Pubblicato in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Numero 36/3, 2019, Pagina/e B137, ISSN 0740-3224
Editore: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/josab.36.00b137

Fast self-testing quantum random number generator based on homodyne detection

Autori: Davide Rusca, Hamid Tebyanian, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Applied Physics Letters, Numero 116/26, 2020, Pagina/e 264004, ISSN 0003-6951
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0011479

Performance and security of 5 GHz repetition rate polarization-based quantum key distribution

Autori: Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Davide Rusca, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Applied Physics Letters, Numero 117/14, 2020, Pagina/e 144003, ISSN 0003-6951
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0021468

A modulator-free quantum key distribution transmitter chip

Autori: Taofiq K. Paraïso, Innocenzo De Marco, Thomas Roger, Davide G. Marangon, James F. Dynes, Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Pubblicato in: npj Quantum Information, Numero 5/1, 2019, ISSN 2056-6387
Editore: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-019-0158-7

Quantum Entropy Model of an Integrated Quantum-Random-Number-Generator Chip

Autori: Gaëtan Gras, Anthony Martin, Jeong Woon Choi, Félix Bussières
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 15/5, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.054048

600-km repeater-like quantum communications with dual-band stabilization

Autori: Mirko Pittaluga, Mariella Minder, Marco Lucamarini, Mirko Sanzaro, Robert I. Woodward, Ming-Jun Li, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Pubblicato in: Nature Photonics, Numero 15/7, 2021, Pagina/e 530-535, ISSN 1749-4885
Editore: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021-00811-0

Composable security of two-way continuous-variable quantum key distribution without active symmetrization

Autori: Shouvik Ghorai, Eleni Diamanti, Anthony Leverrier
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 99/1, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.99.012311

Quantum Conference Key Agreement: A Review

Autori: Gláucia Murta, Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Pubblicato in: Advanced Quantum Technologies, Numero 3/11, 2020, Pagina/e 2000025, ISSN 2511-9044
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/qute.202000025

Satellite-based links for quantum key distribution: beam effects and weather dependence

Autori: Carlo Liorni, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 21/9, 2019, Pagina/e 093055, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab41a2

Security proof for a simplified Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol

Autori: Davide Rusca, Alberto Boaron, Marcos Curty, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 98/5, 2018, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: APS physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.98.052336

Direct measurement of the recovery time of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Autori: Claire Autebert, Gaëtan Gras, Emna Amri, Matthieu Perrenoud, Misael Caloz, Hugo Zbinden, Félix Bussières
Pubblicato in: Journal of Applied Physics, Numero 128/7, 2020, Pagina/e 074504, ISSN 0021-8979
Editore: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0007976

Quantum Keyless Private Communication Versus Quantum Key Distribution for Space Links

Autori: A. Vázquez-Castro, D. Rusca, H. Zbinden
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 16/1, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: America Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.16.014006

Beating direct transmission bounds for quantum key distribution with a multiple quantum memory station

Autori: Róbert Trényi, Norbert Lütkenhaus
Pubblicato in: Physical Review A, Numero 101/1, 2020, ISSN 2469-9926
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.101.012325

Real-time operation of a multi-rate, multi-protocol quantum key distribution transmitter

Autori: Innocenzo De Marco, Robert I. Woodward, George L. Roberts, Taofiq K. Paraïso, Thomas Roger, Mirko Sanzaro, Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Pubblicato in: Optica, Numero 8/6, 2021, Pagina/e 911, ISSN 2334-2536
Editore: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.423517

Conference key agreement with single-photon interference

Autori: Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Pubblicato in: New Journal of Physics, Numero 21/12, 2019, Pagina/e 123002, ISSN 1367-2630
Editore: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab573e

Quantum Key Distribution Over Quantum Repeaters with Encoding: Using Error Detection as an Effective Postselection Tool

Autori: Yumang Jing, Daniel Alsina, Mohsen Razavi
Pubblicato in: Physical Review Applied, Numero 14/6, 2020, ISSN 2331-7019
Editore: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.14.064037