The EU Integrated Project Qubit Applications (or QAP) is a
partnership of 35
academic and industrial groups at the cutting edge of quantum information
research. Initiated in 2005, QAP’s mission is to develop and implement novel
applications for quantum information processing, and to explore theoretical
concepts of quantum information. QAP partners have published over 600 papers
in a variety of journals to date, including prestigious titles such as
Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, Nature Photonics among others.
These papers mark a significant contribution to the worldwide effort to
understand, control and utilize quantum systems, and reflect the diverse
range of interests within the collaboration.
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'Technologies that exploit
the unique weirdness of
quantum mechanics could
debut in the very near
future, thanks to the
groundbreaking work of a
huge European research
consortium'.
'A huge
consortium of European researchers is solving some of the
fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing
applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping
to pave the way to a quantum computer'.
(ICT Results is an editorial service created for the
European Commission to showcase EU-funded ICT research and
activities.
Real-world applications of optical quantum
information processing could become more practical if
small and robust light sources were available that could
generate identical, single photons. In a recent paper,
QAP researchers report improvements in their light
emitting diodes (LEDs), based on quantum dots. Using a
few photon interference experiment, they demonstrate
that successive photons from their LED source can be
identical.
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Long lived quantum coherence is a key phenomenon for
quantum information processing. In a recent Nature
Materials paper, QAP researchers demonstrated the
longest ever coherence times in solid state systems at
room temperature! Coherence times of up to 1.8ms were
demonstrated at Nitrogen-Vacancy centres in their
ultrapure, synthetic diamond samples.
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