Projects
Important note: the projects below are recommended for funding to the national research funding organisations of CHIST-ERA by the Call Steering Committee of CHIST-ERA. The actual funding of the projects depends on the successful completion of contracts negotiation at the national level.
Autonomic Software Engineering for online cultural experiences
This project is about exploiting the predominance of social networking using autonomic software agents to enrich, encourage and enliven engagement with online cultural artefacts such as from a museum or a gallery. With the current problems in the European financial debt, many cultural institutions are planning to shorten the length that visitors can physically enter. In the UK for example we have heard of plans that the British Museum will close earlier and possibly shut down completely for one day a week because of the massive cuts in funding that were presented in the UK Chancellors speech detailing reduction...
Beyond Autonomic Systems - the Challenge of Consciousness (2010)
Composing Quantum Channels
The power of information theory – classical as well as quantum – originates in the abstraction of information from its physical carrier. On this level of discussion, every process, every time evolution and every operation is described by a quantum channel – an input-output relation abstracting from the microscopic origin of the physical dynamics. Quantum channels are therefore central objects and basic building blocks in quantum information theory. The composition of quantum channels is a very natural operation arising in most physical situations. Sequential composition arises, for instance, when two quantum...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing
Device-Independent Quantum Information Processing represents a new paradigm for quantum information processing: the goal is to design protocols to solve relevant information tasks without relying on any assumption on the devices used in the protocol. For instance, protocols for device-independent key distribution aim at establishing a secret key between two honest users whose security is independent of the devices used in the distribution. Contrary to standard quantum information protocols, which are based on entanglement, the main resource for device-independent quantum information processing is quantum non-...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
High Performance Coherent Quantum Communications
Coherent optics has been known since the 1960’s to be, in principle, the best tool to achieve very high bandwidths and bit rates in optical communication. While the development of fiber optical amplifiers in the 1980’s has reduced the need for developing such a technology, the advent of quantum information sciences has triggered a renewed interest in using coherent optics to realize high-rate quantum communication systems. The present project is focused on coherent quantum communication as a way to combine the intrinsically very high rates achievable by homodyne or heterodyne detection with the fundamental...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Plasticity in NEUral Memristive Architectures
During the past two decades, philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, clinicians and neuroscientists strived to provide authoritative definitions of consciousness within a neurobiological framework. Engineers have more recently joined this quest by developing neuromorphic VLSI circuits for emulating biological functions. Yet, to date artificial systems have not been able to faithfully recreate natural attributes such as true processing locality (memory and computation) and complexity (1010 synapses per cm2), preventing the achievement of a long-term goal: the creation of autonomous cognitive systems....
Beyond Autonomic Systems - the Challenge of Consciousness (2010)
Quantum Information with NV Centres
The aim of QINVC is to exploit the superior quantum coherence of the spins of the negatively charged Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) colour centres in diamond, at both room and low temperature, for quantum information processing (QIP). This system is indeed among the best solid-state quantum systems in terms of coherence, ease of manipulation by ESR, and addressability down to the single spin using optical microscopy. Our project first focuses on two hybrid strategies for QIP (WP1). The first one consists in fabricating regular arrays of single NV centres, with gate operation performed using a movable NV spin placed at...
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Quantum technologies for extending the range of quantum communications
The QScale project focuses on the development of advanced quantum communication technologies, specifically of quantum repeater architectures, which represent a major and timely challenge for the field of quantum information science and technology.
Quantum repeaters are needed in order to overcome losses and errors in the transmission of quantum data. It allows the distribution of entanglement at arbitrary large distances, which is a universal resource for quantum information applications, including quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.
The first part of the project is devoted to photonic components, i....
Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
Quantum States: Analysis and Realizations
Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Communication brought a radical, paradigmatic change in our understanding of the nature of information and of its use. Progress in efficient quantum computation and communication will be possible provided we gain a significantly improved comprehension of the underlying principles of quantum physics, have scalable analysis tools available to study the dynamics, decoherence, as well as the applicability of large quantum states, and, last but not least, have reliable and robust quantum technology components available.
The main objectives of QUASAR are thus to
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Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies (2010)
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