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Quantum information processing has the potential to revolutionise the future of information and communication technologies. Project QAP will capitalize on recent developments in small-scale applications, involving a few quantum particles. This will allow us to implement important new quantum technologies relevant to communications and simulations, and provide enabling physics for larger scale quantum computers that will follow in the long term, beyond the time frame of this consortium effort.

QAP is a partnership of 35 industrial, academic and governmental institutions across the EU and around the world. Its mission is to work on qubit applications that are physically realised in photonic, atomic and solid state systems, and to stimulate pursuit of the commercialisation of innovation.

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Research highlights

Cryptography from Noisy Storage

Manipulating and storing quantum information under the influence of noise and loss is one of the major challenges in quantum information processing. In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, QAP physicists have shown that the noise problem can be turned to our advantage in quantum communication between two parties. Surprisingly, this work shows that noise can sometimes be a good thing, and opens the door for much further research in this direction. [read more]

Sub-Poissionian Heralded Single-Photon Source and Experimental Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution

QAP researchers have experimentally demonstrated a scheme of Quantum Key Distribution by using a Sub-Poissionian heralded single-photon source with decoy-state method. This is an important step towards secure communications via QKD. The experiment is described by the researchers in a recent Physical Review Letters paper. [read more]