UK Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Communications Technologies
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Quantum technologies are new, disruptive technologies that have the potential to outperform familiar information technologies, for example in the areas of communications, sensing, measurement and computing. We all use all this stuff every day, relying on it increasingly as our lives become more and more "high-tech". Quantum technologies employ the weird and counter-intuitive features of quantum physics, in technologies that can offer greater security for communications and data. Or in technologies that can measure and sense things better. Or in technologies that can open up new and more powerful directions in computing.
The UK has an outstanding track record - recognised worldwide - in quantum technology research. The time is now here for this research to progress to development, demonstration and the commercialisation of new quantum technologies. The UK Government has recognised this fact and has injected £270M into the Science and Technology budget to achieve it. A major part of this £270M is to be spent on a national network of Quantum Technology Hubs, whose job it will be to deliver new quantum technologies for the UK.
Our proposed contribution to this endeavour is a Hub for new Quantum Communications Technologies. Data and communications security are absolutely essential throughout society today - for individuals, institutions, businesses, governments and nations. Current secure communications systems have vulnerabilities, some exposed today and others that may be exposed in the future as computing power and hacking techniques improve. Secure communications based on quantum physics can eliminate some of these vulnerabilities, providing systems whose security is underpinned by the laws of Nature. The basic features of quantum physics that enable secure communications are: (i) information encoded in a quantum system cannot be copied; (ii) information encoded in a quantum system is irreversibly changed when somebody reads it. Intuitively, one can see that these facts will ensure that eavesdroppers on quantum communications always get caught. This can be utilised in quantum communications systems to give a guarantee of security. The "classic" example is that Alice and Bob can share a secure, secret key, with a quantum promise that Eve knows nothing about it. They can then use this key to protect a range of communications and transactions in the future. However, they do have to consume the key to maintain security, so there is a need for topping up of secure key (quantum key distribution, or QKD) on a regular basis through quantum means.
Demonstrations of quantum communications systems have existed for a number of years now, but with limitations on their capabilities that have prevented large scale commercialisation of these technologies. The grand vision of our Hub is to develop new quantum communications technologies that will overcome these limitations, enabling widespread use and adoption - from government and commerce through to consumers and the home. We aim to develop short-range, low cost QKD for mobile devices such as 'phones. We aim to develop chip-scale QKD modules, for ease of manufacture and widespread and versatile deployment. We aim to demonstrate QKD over networks and its integration with conventional communications. We also aim to investigate new directions in quantum communications, going beyond simple QKD, for example to quantum versions of digital signatures for signing electronic messages or documents.
There is great potential for the UK to become a world-leader across a range of new, high-tech, quantum technologies. Furthermore, the quantum communications sector is of particular national importance. As all security and cryptography technologies are sensitive and subject to import/export controls, it is therefore vital for the UK to establish "sovereign capability" in a new quantum communications sector. We have assembled an outstanding team of scientists and engineers in our Hub to pursue this goal.
The UK has an outstanding track record - recognised worldwide - in quantum technology research. The time is now here for this research to progress to development, demonstration and the commercialisation of new quantum technologies. The UK Government has recognised this fact and has injected £270M into the Science and Technology budget to achieve it. A major part of this £270M is to be spent on a national network of Quantum Technology Hubs, whose job it will be to deliver new quantum technologies for the UK.
Our proposed contribution to this endeavour is a Hub for new Quantum Communications Technologies. Data and communications security are absolutely essential throughout society today - for individuals, institutions, businesses, governments and nations. Current secure communications systems have vulnerabilities, some exposed today and others that may be exposed in the future as computing power and hacking techniques improve. Secure communications based on quantum physics can eliminate some of these vulnerabilities, providing systems whose security is underpinned by the laws of Nature. The basic features of quantum physics that enable secure communications are: (i) information encoded in a quantum system cannot be copied; (ii) information encoded in a quantum system is irreversibly changed when somebody reads it. Intuitively, one can see that these facts will ensure that eavesdroppers on quantum communications always get caught. This can be utilised in quantum communications systems to give a guarantee of security. The "classic" example is that Alice and Bob can share a secure, secret key, with a quantum promise that Eve knows nothing about it. They can then use this key to protect a range of communications and transactions in the future. However, they do have to consume the key to maintain security, so there is a need for topping up of secure key (quantum key distribution, or QKD) on a regular basis through quantum means.
Demonstrations of quantum communications systems have existed for a number of years now, but with limitations on their capabilities that have prevented large scale commercialisation of these technologies. The grand vision of our Hub is to develop new quantum communications technologies that will overcome these limitations, enabling widespread use and adoption - from government and commerce through to consumers and the home. We aim to develop short-range, low cost QKD for mobile devices such as 'phones. We aim to develop chip-scale QKD modules, for ease of manufacture and widespread and versatile deployment. We aim to demonstrate QKD over networks and its integration with conventional communications. We also aim to investigate new directions in quantum communications, going beyond simple QKD, for example to quantum versions of digital signatures for signing electronic messages or documents.
There is great potential for the UK to become a world-leader across a range of new, high-tech, quantum technologies. Furthermore, the quantum communications sector is of particular national importance. As all security and cryptography technologies are sensitive and subject to import/export controls, it is therefore vital for the UK to establish "sovereign capability" in a new quantum communications sector. We have assembled an outstanding team of scientists and engineers in our Hub to pursue this goal.
Planned Impact
As the high level objective and vision of this hub is to generate new quantum communications (QComm) technologies, for commercialisation of this quantum technologies (QT) sector, the main long term impact of our work should be economic, for UK plc. Our new technologies should have widespread applicability - from government, defence and security through commerce to consumers and the home - thus generating widespread economic and societal impact. Our goal is safer and more secure communications and transactions for all, from mobile phones and wireless connectivity through to backbone networks. The QComm technologies developed in our Hub will have major economic and societal impact across this spectrum. We also anticipate spin out economic impact, with the high speed electronics and chip-scale optical devices and switches we develop finding other markets.
To deliver all this big picture impact, the Hub Management Team will follow an impact generation strategy incorporating various mechanisms:
1. Regular consultation with the Hub Advisory Board, the membership of which will be selected to ensure appropriate expertise in relevant impact generation and tech transfer.
2. Active monitoring of IP opportunities and IP protection.
3. Maximise involvement of UK industry in the quantum technologies sector, to create wealth and jobs. At its outset the Hub has strong industrial partnership: NPL and Toshiba as major collaborators in the Hub; ID Quantique, Oclaro, BT, ADVA and Nokia as consultants/suppliers; defence contractors Airbus Defence and Space, and L3 TRL Technology Ltd. as sponsors and end-users; start-ups Cryptographiq Ltd and Qumet Technologies as commercialisation channels.
4. Wider collaboration and consultation with stakeholders, industry, end users and other Hubs to ensure that all technological advances are exploited as widely as possible, providing new products and services. This will be through licencing or tech transfer to existing companies and also by fostering the development of new start-up companies in addition to Qumet and Cryptographiq.
5. Regular knowledge transfer activities, such as conferences, workshops and industry briefings.
6. Active networking and training. All Hub academic partners are providing PhD students as part of their institutional support, some already directly linked to relevant CDTs. Along with the PDRAs, these students will form a network within our Hub, and more widely within the UK Network of Hubs. This will provide highly skilled scientists, with relevant expertise across a range of QT, to ensure the knowledge supply chain is in place to deliver the benefits and impact of the investment.
The Hub member institutions all have mechanisms in place to ensure maximum impact. For example, at the lead institution York the exploitation of emerging technologies will be supported by the Business Development Team with extensive commercialisation experience and a strong track-record of making world class research more accessible to industry. This team will ensure that opportunities for industry partnerships, spinning-out of new companies and licencing are optimised, as will the corresponding teams at the other Hub partners. All Hub partners will continue to seek research funding (EPSRC, EU, etc.) to ensure the sustainability of the Hub and a future "impact stream". We shall also seek further exploitation funding (TSB, etc.) to accelerate the transfer of technologies to industry.
In addition to the longer term economic and societal impact, immediate wider impact of our work will be through active public engagement: web; media, popular talks, etc.. We will also deliver major academic impact, as detailed in the "Academic Beneficiaries" section.
To deliver all this big picture impact, the Hub Management Team will follow an impact generation strategy incorporating various mechanisms:
1. Regular consultation with the Hub Advisory Board, the membership of which will be selected to ensure appropriate expertise in relevant impact generation and tech transfer.
2. Active monitoring of IP opportunities and IP protection.
3. Maximise involvement of UK industry in the quantum technologies sector, to create wealth and jobs. At its outset the Hub has strong industrial partnership: NPL and Toshiba as major collaborators in the Hub; ID Quantique, Oclaro, BT, ADVA and Nokia as consultants/suppliers; defence contractors Airbus Defence and Space, and L3 TRL Technology Ltd. as sponsors and end-users; start-ups Cryptographiq Ltd and Qumet Technologies as commercialisation channels.
4. Wider collaboration and consultation with stakeholders, industry, end users and other Hubs to ensure that all technological advances are exploited as widely as possible, providing new products and services. This will be through licencing or tech transfer to existing companies and also by fostering the development of new start-up companies in addition to Qumet and Cryptographiq.
5. Regular knowledge transfer activities, such as conferences, workshops and industry briefings.
6. Active networking and training. All Hub academic partners are providing PhD students as part of their institutional support, some already directly linked to relevant CDTs. Along with the PDRAs, these students will form a network within our Hub, and more widely within the UK Network of Hubs. This will provide highly skilled scientists, with relevant expertise across a range of QT, to ensure the knowledge supply chain is in place to deliver the benefits and impact of the investment.
The Hub member institutions all have mechanisms in place to ensure maximum impact. For example, at the lead institution York the exploitation of emerging technologies will be supported by the Business Development Team with extensive commercialisation experience and a strong track-record of making world class research more accessible to industry. This team will ensure that opportunities for industry partnerships, spinning-out of new companies and licencing are optimised, as will the corresponding teams at the other Hub partners. All Hub partners will continue to seek research funding (EPSRC, EU, etc.) to ensure the sustainability of the Hub and a future "impact stream". We shall also seek further exploitation funding (TSB, etc.) to accelerate the transfer of technologies to industry.
In addition to the longer term economic and societal impact, immediate wider impact of our work will be through active public engagement: web; media, popular talks, etc.. We will also deliver major academic impact, as detailed in the "Academic Beneficiaries" section.
Publications
Dynes J
(2019)
Cambridge quantum network
in npj Quantum Information
Ellis D
(2018)
Independent indistinguishable quantum light sources on a reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit
in Applied Physics Letters
Elmabrok O
(2018)
Wireless quantum key distribution in indoor environments
in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Elmabrok O
(2016)
Quantum-Classical Access Networks with Embedded Optical Wireless Links
Elmabrok O
(2018)
Quantum-classical access networks with embedded optical wireless links
in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Elmabrok O
(2015)
Feasibility of Wireless Quantum Key Distribution in Indoor Environments
Eltes F
(2020)
An integrated optical modulator operating at cryogenic temperatures.
in Nature materials
Everspaugh A.
(2017)
CRYPTO 2017 (III), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10403
| Description | The modern world runs on the rapid and secure transfer of information. Private emails, financial transactions, classified information, and health care records all involve the storage and transfer of highly sensitive data. Data is often said to be the new oil. To ensure data is kept safe from those who would abuse it, the sender, usually referred to as Alice, encrypts the data before she sends it to the recipient, whom we call Bob. Conventional encryption jumbles up the data so that it is impossible to read, and an algorithm is used to generate a key to decrypt it - a long string of random numbers which only Alice and Bob have access to. Cracking the algorithms and calculating the key would take our best computers years, but they are not impossible to crack. If quantum computers are successful, they may be able to break many public-key cryptosystems, possibly in a matter of hours. This would seriously compromise the integrity of the world's digital communications. Quantum Communications provides a solution. Quantum key distribution (QKD) techniques physically encode the key into a string of photons - single particles of light - so it is impossible to crack mathematically. It is also impossible to copy or steal the key since the rules of quantum mechanics dictate that any observation will change the quantum state. So, if Bob receives a changed key, he knows there has been interference and simply asks Alice to resend. Recognising the importance of future information security, the UK Government funded the Quantum Communications Hub in 2014, as part of its original £270 million investment of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. During this time, major progress has been made in developing secure quantum communications, as this report discusses. We have set up dedicated optical fibre networks in and between major cities, allowing quantum technologies to be tested on real world communications infrastructure. We have developed chip -scale quantum communications, paving the way for QKD to be integrated into small devices. And we have made progress on free space QKD, allowing encoded photons to be transmitted from handheld devices. Alongside these major leaps forward, we have made improvements in transmitter and receiver technology and the software and hardware frameworks needed for QKD to operate in commercially viable ways. Taken together, this brings together the necessary elements for practical QKD demonstrations using commercial technology. Specifically, during the five last years our Hub investigators have: ? launched the UK's first Quantum Network, demonstrating that quantum secure communications can operate in the real world, alongside conventional high speed optical communications, using standard commercial grade optical fibre; ? made huge progress in miniaturising QKD technologies by experimentally demonstrating the world's first chip-to-chip QKD encrypted transmission, addressing cost and manufacturability issues and enabling future widespread deployment and application of these technologies; ? demonstrated free space QKD between a handheld device and wall mounted terminal, which alongside the development of specialist software is paving the way for wireless QKD with continuous supply of provably secure keys; ? hugely progressed the real-world realisation of new approaches such as quantum digital signatures by taking them from laboratory demonstrations over several metres of optical fibre to implementation in dark fibre with metropolitan networks over 100km distances; ? established and funded the Quantum Ambassadors scheme for all four Hubs in partnership with the National STEM Learning Centre, engaging with 157 schools across the country with the specific aim of increasing awareness and understanding of quantum technologies while signposting future career pathways; ? invested in growing and training a future skilled workforce of quantum technologists through our 81 Hub postdoctoral researchers and by sponsoring 28 PhD studentships and aligning Hub work alongside a further 17 EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership awards. |
| Exploitation Route | Following the success of phase 1 of the national programme (2014-2019) during which the work described as part of this award took place, the UK Government made the decision to fund a second phase of the programme (2019-2024). The Quantum Communications Hub consortium has successfully submitted a proposal for funding of a further five years. The high level objective of this second (2019-2024) phase of our Hub is the development of quantum communications technologies at all distance scales, pursuing integration between these technologies and with conventional communications infrastructure. New applications and services can define and serve new markets, enabling widespread use and adoption - from government and commerce through to consumers and the home. Along wider strategic goals, our vision is supported through the following set of technical objectives: • Having already established the first UK Quantum Network (UKQN), we are working to expand this, increase its capabilities and use it as a testbed for our technologies and integration. • We are developing new (continuous variable, CV) QKD technologies based on quantum-level versions of conventional light signals; initially focused on fibre, but with space applications also being considered. • We are developing new QKD technologies based on entanglement, to remove certain side-channels and work towards quantum repeaters. • We are expanding development of short-range, hand-held QKD systems for consumers and individuals, to include pointing and tracking capabilities. • We are developing new QKD receivers and transmitters suitable for space, along with their respective ground station and cube-sat hosts. We will utilise a cubesat mission to demonstrate QKD from satellite to ground. • We are exploring development of chip-based "next generation" quantum communications. • We are investigating new protocols - beyond QKD - to widen the solution space for quantum communications. • We are establishing UK capability in specific source and detector components required for quantum communications. • We are undertaking work in hacking and side-channels, while considering potential vulnerabilities across all technical areas, in hardware, software and systems. • We are continuing our standards work with partner NPL leading metrology activities across the Hub scope, working towards assurance of performance and security, and providing input for subsequent work on new standards (via ETSI). • We are exploring the potential of hybrid quantum and conventional security solutions, in collaboration with conventional mathematical security and hardware expertise, to investigate incorporation of our QKD (and beyond) technologies into wider "quantum safe" solutions. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail,Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/wp-content/src/FINAL-for-web_Quantum-Hub_report_condensed_2019.pdf |
| Description | Throughout the programme, the Hub has worked to engage industry, government and the general public with the aim of generating excitement around quantum communications technology. - We established and funded the Quantum Ambassadors scheme for all four hubs, a two-year programme of class-based activities for A-level students and educators at 157 schools, increasing awareness and understanding of quantum technologies and signposting career pathways. The programme received very positive feedback, and a lighter weight GCSE version is being developed. - Along with the other hubs and stakeholders, we launched Quantum City (https://quantumcity.org.uk/), an engagement initiative promoting public understanding of the benefits of quantum technologies. This includes a public facing website explaining quantum technologies in plain language and public engagement activities at many science festivals since 2018. - The MacroPhoton demonstrator developed at Heriot-Watt University is proving to be an excellent "hands-on" public engagement and teaching tool (demonstrations at various science fairs, e.g. Cheltenham in June 2018, New Scientist London in September 2018 etc. - https://www.quantumcommshub.net/public-engagement/the-macrophoton/), which uses the concept of photons scaled to the macroscale to demonstrate how quantum secure communications work. Future plans include its rollout through an app for potential use in schools. - Along with the other hubs and stakeholders, we took part in an EPSRC commissioned public dialogue exercise on quantum technologies, aiming to introduce members of the public to the capabilities of these emerging technologies, and understand any concerns, aspirations and priorities relating to their future development and eventual deployment (see final report here: https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/pubs/epsrc-quantum-technologies-public-dialogue-full-report/) The ultimate beneficiaries of the Hub technologies will be businesses that rely on secure communications such as banks, defence organisations, and health services. But the immediate adopters of QKD will be technology companies that develop and sell QKD equipment, and telecommunications companies and service providers that implement QKD into their networks. The Hub has worked closely with three companies exploring the commercial potential of QKD - BT, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TREL) and KETS Quantum. BT is an active investor in QKD and a partner of the Hub. It is making a big drive into QKD, which it sees as a potentially revolutionary technology and one that could transform network security. The Hub has collaborated with BT to develop systems based on commercial fibre, with extra channels used for sending the QKD key. Through partnerships with technology providers, BT hopes to offer complete managed network solutions. Medium term, it sees opportunities to sell Openreach access solutions with integrated QKD to provide highly secure communications across and between sites, or bespoke links such as those between a bank and a datacentre. But ultimately QKD could be at the heart of ubiquitous Quantum-Safe Cryptography that underpins the world's secure communications, so BT wants to be ahead of the game. Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TREL): TREL's prototype Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system delivers digital keys for cryptographic applications on fibre optic networks. TREL are already making inroads into markets where data needs to stay confidential beyond the advent of quantum computers. For example, they are working in Japan to protect human genome data. The genome data is collected and analysed by a Toshiba company and shared with a data bank in another part of city over a quantum secured link. Through working with the Hub and other partners, TREL have been able to develop various applications as well as standards for network integration. The Hub has also benefitted from TREL's world leading QKD equipment, which has been demonstrated to deliver the world record for the highest secure key rate, at 13Mb/s. Faster key rates are important as it means more secure keys can be formed or refreshed, speeding the processing of encrypted information. KETS Quantum: KETS, a Quantum Communications Hub start-up, has developed QKD technology on a chip, and is now working on commercialising it. Their technology can distribute secure keys from a chip the size of a fingernail, which can be easily manufactured in standard semiconductor foundries, and easily integrated into modern electronics. This allows more flexible and scalable key distribution than bulky units, and could bring practical QKD to many applications. The founders of KETS were behind the chip-to-chip QKD demonstration at Bristol. Having built the prototype as part of a Hub funded programme, they spun out the company to focus on commercialisation. Seed funding in 2017 allowed them to develop the technology further and embark on trials alongside companies such as BT and Airbus. Access to the UKQN via the Hub allows them to test and validate products and the Hub consortium helps them access partners and collaborators. With partners, they are gradually developing secure communication use cases in finance, oil & gas, critical infrastructure and defence. One such project is working with Airbus and others to demonstrate quantum secured communication between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and ground stations. The size of their technology gives it significant advantages. It can be easily integrated into other technologies, such as the hardware security modules that currently handle cryptographic keys, allowing equipment manufacturers to build new quantum secured products using KETS chips. The technology is still evolving. Within 2-3 years, KETS hopes to offer multiple key transmitters on a single chip. Long term it hopes to integrate chips into handheld devices, and ultimately phones and laptops, which can establish secure communication channels using QKD, for example to improve the security of password apps. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | Invited contributions to the Blackett Report into Quantum Technologies (Spiller, Andersson, Paterson, Lord, Shields) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/quantum-technologies-blackett-review |
| Description | Paterson was an invited participant in the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 14401 - Privacy and Security in an Age of Surveillance (January 2015). |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5565/pdf/dagman_v005_i001_p025_14401.pdf |
| Description | Sinclair, Chunnilall, Shields - Members of Industry Specification Group for Quantum Key Distribution of ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/QKD/001_099/011/01.01.01_60/gs_QKD011v010101p.pdf |
| Description | Spiller - Advisor on National STEM Learning Centre production of set of innovative learning resources aimed at secondary school (A level) education professionals |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/36335/quantum-key-distribution |
| Description | Spiller - Consultation on the NSII (National Security and Investment and Infrastructure Review) Green Paper |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/national-security-and-infrastructure-investment-review |
| Description | Spiller - Contributor to Expert Roundtable on Future Technologies and Innovations (Quantum) - Portcullis House, Westminster 10/09/15 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/quantum-technologies-blackett-review |
| Description | Spiller - Invited participant in single-day workshop "Towards a European quantum technology industry" (Brussels, 06/05/15) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/report-workshop-quantum-technologies-and-industry |
| Description | Spiller - Panellist in the session on 'Quantum Communication', Part of Quantum Technnologies Stakeholder Meeting, European Commission (13/10/15) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/quantum-technologies-opportunities-european-industry-rep... |
| Description | Spiller - Participation in debate on Quantum Technologies: Entangling Europe for Innovation, European Parliament, Brussels, as part of the 7th European Innovation Summit organised by Knowledge4Innovation |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Spiller - Participation in oral evidence giving panel in front of Science & Technology Select Committee as part of the Committee inquiry into quantum technologies (University of Glasgow, 28/06/18) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-c... |
| Description | Spiller - Submission of evidence addressing the opportunities and challenges for quantum technologies to Science and Technology Committee enquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-c... |
| Description | Buller - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: David Canning) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - University of York 2017 (Spiller T., "A free-space coherent receiver for quantum sensitive signal detection") |
| Amount | £2,247,310 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R51181X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account - University of York 2017 (Spiller T., "A multi-mode signal transmitter for enhanced quantum communications in free-space") |
| Amount | £2,247,310 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R51181X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 05/2020 |
| Description | Jeffers - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Gion Tatsi) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Paterson/Ruediger - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Kyle Hutchins) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Pirandola - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Kieran Wilkinson) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | Quantum Technologies Strategic Capital Investment Call |
| Amount | £2,049,030 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N015207/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Rarity/Thompson - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Benjamin Slater) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Rarity/Thompson - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Daniel Llewellyn) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2016 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Description | Savory - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Peter Raymond Smith) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Spiller - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Joseph Pearse) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Spiller - EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (name of student: Sophie Albosh) |
| Amount | £4,067,668 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N509802/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | System Integration & Testing of a WCP QKD Payload to TRL5 QSTP (University of Bristol) |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Title | A low cost, short range quantum key distribution system |
| Description | This is raw data, processing code and figure data from the paper "A low cost, short range quantum key distribution system" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2jhamuznu717y2dts7wbwy9shl/ |
| Title | Data from: Photonic hybrid state entanglement swapping using cat state superpositions |
| Description | We propose the use of hybrid entanglement in an entanglement swapping protocol, as means of distributing a Bell state with high fidelity to two parties, Alice and Bob. The hybrid entanglement used in this work is described as a discrete variable (Fock state) and a continuous variable (cat state superposition) entangled state. We model equal and unequal levels of photonic loss between the two propagating continuous variable modes, before detecting these states via a projective vacuum-one-photon measurement, and the other mode via balanced homodyne detection. We investigate homodyne measurement imperfections, and the associated success probability of the measurement schemes chosen in this protocol. We show that our entanglement swapping scheme is resilient to low levels of photonic losses, as well as low levels of averaged unequal losses between the two propagating modes, and show an improvement in this loss resilience over other hybrid entanglement schemes using coherent state superpositions as the propagating modes. Finally, we conclude that our protocol is suitable for potential quantum networking applications which require two nodes to share entanglement separated over a distance of 5-10 km when used with a suitable entanglement purification scheme. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.05qfttf0c |
| Title | High spectro-temporal purity single-photons from silicon micro-racetrack resonators using a dual-pulse configuration |
| Description | This data set contains raw measurements on integrated photonic devices for high-purity photon pair production using a dual-pulse pump configuration. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/24yqxb8prl3q028e60kec4b8w9/ |
| Title | Integrated optical modulator at Cryogenic Temperatures |
| Description | This data set contains pre-processed measurements acquired on optical modulators at different temperatures. The data was used as part of a collaboration between IBM and the University of Bristol. Analysis on the data show a high electro-optic coefficient and >20GHz modulation speeds at cryogenic temperature. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3dwflddsnkun32ghpq4zufxtl1/ |
| Title | Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination: supplementary material and code for figures |
| Description | This zip file contains the code used to generate the figures in the paper: "Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination". See the README for more details on the files. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4281118 |
| Title | Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination: supplementary material and code for figures |
| Description | This zip file contains the code used to generate the figures in the paper: "Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination". See the README for more details on the files. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4281117 |
| Company Name | KETS Quantum Security Ltd. |
| Description | KETS Quantum Security Ltd. is a new commercial venture focused on developing the potential of quantum cryptography with integrated quantum photonic platforms. This approach for quantum enhanced cryptography enables the strongest digital communications encryption in a practical and deployable platform. The use of cutting edge integrated quantum photonics crucially delivers on the demanding size, weight, and power constraints common in many industrial applications, while maintaining state-of-the-art performance in a technology fully compatible with classical micro-electronic integration. Born out of the research pioneered by Professors Jeremy O'Brien and Mark Thompson at the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) at the University of Bristol and supported by the Quantum Communications Hub, members of KETS demonstrated in 2015 the world's first chip-to-chip quantum secured communication. Using Quantum Key Distribution, they enabled the ultra-secure transmission of shared secret keys between two monolithic integrated devices. In partnership with the Hub, KETS will continue to advance the technology and are developing robust prototypes aimed at addressing a number of market needs. Through participation in a number of SETSquared (the Global #1 University Business Incubator) programmes, the team has been developing its commercialisation strategy for its integrated QKD technology. Specifically, participation in the ICURe programme facilitated 6 months of extensive market research with over 50+ individuals in 30+ key organisations across a number of market sectors including finance, telecommunications, and defence. This customer engagement has provided key insights for developing a compelling business case and as a result KETS won the 2015 University of Bristol New Enterprise Competition. This included start-up funds, legal services, and space in Bristol's innovative and dynamic high-tech incubator EngineShed. |
| Year Established | 2016 |
| Impact | Members of KETS demonstrated in 2015 the world's first chip-to-chip quantum secured communication. Using Quantum Key Distribution, they enabled the ultra-secure transmission of shared secret keys between two monolithic integrated devices. In partnership with the Hub, KETS will continue to advance the technology and are developing robust prototypes aimed at addressing a number of market needs.During the ICURe programme, a number of companies expressed interest in KETS technology, including SMEs and large corporations. These were from different sectors, but with a common interest in a full QKD prototype, and chip-based quantum random number generators. The team are now working to implement the technology for sector-specific deployment. For example: in telecommunications networks, where new developments such as quantum-secured network function virtualisation (NFV) - recently demonstrated by Bristol's High Performance Networks Group and the CQP, together with BT - offer robust network security; in data centres, attracted by the low power consumption and small footprint of the devices; in finance, where the explosion in new fintech solutions has generated demand for the utmost in security; and in defence, with applications including securing soldier radios, commercial aircraft, satellites, and drones. |
| Website | http://www.southwestbusiness.co.uk/sectors/digital-and-hitech/19102015104738-bristol-university-spin... |
| Description | A talk or presentation - Lord A. Integration of QKD into telecom networks. Contributed talk at ECOC 2018, 44th European Conference on Optical Communication, Rome, Italy, 23-27 September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk or presentation - Lord A. Integration of QKD into telecom networks. Contributed talk at ECOC 2018, 44th European Conference on Optical Communication, Rome, Italy, 23-27 September 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ecoc2018.org/ |
| Description | Aguado et al - Contributed talk at the 2016 ECOC conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Aguado A, Hugues-Salas E, Haigh PA, Marhuenda J, Price AB, Sibson P, Kennard J, Erven C, Rarity JG, Thompson MG, Lord A, Nejabati R & Simeonidou D, presented a talk ("First Experimental Demonstration of Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources") at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2016), Düsseldorf, Germany, 18 - 22 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Aguado et al - poster presentation at 2016 QCrypt, Washington DC, US, September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Aguado A, Martin V, Lopez D, Peev M, Martinez-Mateo J, Rosales JL, de La Iglesia F, Gomez M, Hugues-Salas E, Lord A, Nejabati R & Simeonidou D presented a poster ("Quantum-Aware Software Defined Networks") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Alsina D & Razavi M. "Quantum repeaters with optimal encoding from absolutely maximally entangled states". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, Aug 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alsina D & Razavi M. "Quantum repeaters with optimal encoding from absolutely maximally entangled states". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, Aug 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Amiri et al - poster presentation at 2016 QCrypt, Washington DC, US, September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Amiri R, Wallden P & Andersson E. presented a poster ("Imperfect oblivious transfer") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Andersson - Invited talk at the 2nd UK-Japan workshop, Tokyo, Japan, March 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Erika Andersson was invited to give a talk ("Secure quantum signatures - a practical quantum technology") at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Andersson - Invited talk the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, 11-12 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Erika Andersson was invited to give a talk ("Secure signatures - a practical quantum technology") at the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, 11-12 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/05/quantum-technology-challenges/ |
| Description | Andersson - Poster presentation (Almost tight bounds for 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer - on behalf of Ryan Amiri) at QuAMP, Glasgow, 4-7 Sep 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andersson - Poster presentation (Almost tight bounds for 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer - on behalf of Ryan Amiri) at QuAMP, Glasgow, 4-7 Sep 2017. A number of fellow researchers expressed interest in the work of the Hub and asked for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://quamp2017.iopconfs.org/home |
| Description | Andersson - Poster presentation (Benchmarking probabilistic amplifiers -on behalf of Klaudia Kleczkowska) at QuAMP, Glasgow, 4-7 Sep 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andersson - Poster presentation (Benchmarking probabilistic amplifiers -on behalf of Klaudia Kleczkowska) at QuAMP, Glasgow, 4-7 Sep 2017. A number of researchers showed interest in the work and requested further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://quamp2017.iopconfs.org/home |
| Description | Andersson - Poster presentation (Quantum digital signatures based on measurement-device-independent framework - on behalf of Ittoop Puthoor) at QuAMP, Glasgow, 4-7 Sep 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andersson - Poster presentation (Quantum digital signatures based on measurement-device-independent framework - on behalf of Ittoop Puthoor) at QuAMP, Glasgow, 4-7 Sep 2017. Various researchers expressed interest in the work and asked for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://quamp2017.iopconfs.org/home |
| Description | Andersson - Written piece (Quantum computers - supercomputers in superposition) for yearbook of the Swedish Physical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Erika Andersson wrote a piece (in Swedish) on quantum computing (Quantum computers - supercomputers in superposition) for "Kosmos - our quantum world", the yearbook of the Swedish Physical Society. The yearbook gets sent to all members of the society, and is also available online at http://www.fysikersamfundet.se/kosmos/. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.fysikersamfundet.se/kosmos/ |
| Description | Andersson/Laing - Participation in discussion re: future collaboration between UK and Italy in the area of Quantum Technologies, Capri, Oct 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Erika Andersson (Heriot Watt University) and Anthony Laing (University of Bristol) participated in a UK-Italy bilateral meeting to discuss general directions for future research collaboration between the UK and Italy (also with regards to Brexit), in the area of quantum technology, Capri, 4-5 Oct 2017. She gave a brief overview presentation on research in quantum information theory in the UK making reference to the work of the Hub. (Participation by a small number of delegates by invitation only.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2017/october/uk-italian-research-ties-.html |
| Description | Andrea - Participation in the single-day workshop on Standards in Quantum Technologies, organised by the British Institute of Standards, London, 8 September 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Klitos Andrea participated in the single-day workshop on Standards in Quantum Technologies, organised by the British Institute of Standards, London, 8 September 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Bahrani S, Elmabrok O, Curras Lorenzo G & Razavi M. "Finite-Key Effects in Quantum Access Networks with Wireless Links". Contributed talk at IEEE GLOBECOM, workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi, 9-13 December 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bahrani S, Elmabrok O, Curras Lorenzo G & Razavi M. "Finite-Key Effects in Quantum Access Networks with Wireless Links". Contributed talk at IEEE GLOBECOM, workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi, 9-13 December 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org/ |
| Description | Bahrani et al - Contributed talk at the Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation Conference, Singapore, July 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bahrani S, Razavi M & Salehi JA gave a contributed talk ("Optimal Wavelength Assignment in Hybrid Quantum-Classical DWDM Networks") at the Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation Conference, Singapore, July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bristol University Hub team - Chip based quantum key distribution demonstration at Faculty of Engineering Research Showcase on 14.10.2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Staff and students from the Hub attended and engaged with industry and other members of the research community at the Faculty of Engineering Research Showcase on 14.10.2017 (biannual event). Chip-Based Quantum Key Distribution was demonstrated and the event attracted a number of different companies which expressed interest in the activities of the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Bristol University Hub team - quantum hacking demo at Manchester Science Festival, 26 October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Bristol University Hub team attended the Manchester Science Festival on 26.10.2017. The event is aimed at a schools audience and the team presented a hacking demonstration. The aim was to send messages between two laptops, use a Caesar cipher and act as a hacker to try and guess the encryption key. The goal was to engage with a young audience and enthuse them about quantum physics and the applications of quantum technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.manchestersciencefestival.com/category/news/2017/ |
| Description | Brown P, Ragy S & Colbeck R. "An adaptive framework for quantum-secure device-independent randomness expansion". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brown P, Ragy S & Colbeck R. "An adaptive framework for quantum-secure device-independent randomness expansion". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Brown P. "Feasibiligy of device-independent randomness expansion". Contributed talk, Q-Turn : changing paradigms in quantum science, 26th - 30th November 2018, Florianópolis, Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brown P. "Feasibiligy of device-independent randomness expansion". Contributed talk, Q-Turn : changing paradigms in quantum science, 26th - 30th November 2018, Florianópolis, Brazil |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://qturnworkshop.wixsite.com/2018 |
| Description | Brown P. "Feasibility of device-independent randomness expansion". Contributed talk, Quantum Roundabout, Nottingham, 11th - 13th July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brown P. "Feasibility of device-independent randomness expansion". Contributed talk, Quantum Roundabout, Nottingham, 11th - 13th July 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://quantumroundabout.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Buller et al - participated in "Illuminations" - December 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Buller G, Donaldson R, Amiri R, Kleczkowaska K. The team participated in "Illuminations", the closing event for the International Year of Light in Scotland held on December 2nd, 2015. 500 school students and 500 members of the public were invited to Heriot-Watt for popular lectures and extensive hands-on demonstrations of photonics technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Burenkov - Poster presentation at the Royal Society discussion meeting on Quantum technology for the 21st century, Royal Society, London, 9-10 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Viacheslav Burenkov presented a poster ("Metrology for Quantum Key Distribution") at the Royal Society discussion meeting on Quantum technology for the 21st century, Royal Society, London, 9-10 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/05/quantum-technology/ |
| Description | Burenkov V. - Poster presentation at the 4th ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum Safe Cryptography, Toronto, 19-21 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Burenkov V. gave a poster presentation ("Metrology for Quantum Secure Communications") at the 4th ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum Safe Cryptography, Toronto, 19-21 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Burenkov et al - Poster presentation at 2016 QCrypt conference, Washington DC, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Burenkov V, Szwer D, Patel P, Chunnilall C & Sinclair A presented a poster ("Metrology for Quantum Secure Communications") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt), Washington DC, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | C. Lupo gave a contributed talk (The quantum limit to incoherent imaging is achieved by linear interferometry) at the 24th IMEKO TC4 International virtual Symposium 14 - 16 October 2020 Palermo, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | C. Lupo gave a contributed talk (The quantum limit to incoherent imaging is achieved by linear interferometry) at the 24th IMEKO TC4 International virtual Symposium 14 - 16 October 2020 Palermo, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.imeko-tc4-2020.org/ |
| Description | Chun H, Lowndes D & Choi I. "Miniaturised Hand-held Quantum Key Distribution System with Tracking Capability". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27- 31 August 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chun H, Lowndes D & Choi I. "Miniaturised Hand-held Quantum Key Distribution System with Tracking Capability". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27- 31 August 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Chunnilall - Contributed talk at the Single-Photon Workshop, Geneva, 13-16 July 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Christopher Chunnilall gave a contributed talk ("Metrology for single-photon technologies") at the Single-Photon Workshop, Geneva, 13-16 July 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Chunnilall - Poster presentation (with Kirkwood R, Patel P & Sinclair A. The development of accurate measurements to provide assurance for QKD technologies) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chunnilall C, Kirkwood R, Patel P & Sinclair A. The development of accurate measurements to provide assurance for QKD technologies. Poster presentation at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We437.pdf |
| Description | Colbeck - Do atoms behave randomly? Talk at Pint of Science event in York, 15th May 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roger Colbeck gave a popular science talk (Do atoms behave randomly?) inspired by the work of the Hub at Pint of Science event in York, 15th May 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Colbeck - Invited lecturer (talk on Bell Inequalities) at Solstice of Foundations summer school, 18th June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colbeck was an Invited lecturer (talk on Bell Inequalities) at Solstice of Foundations summer school, 18th June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Colbeck - Invited seminar at University College London, London, UK, 2 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Roger Colbeck gave an invited seminar ("Quantum circuits for quantum operations") at University College London, London, UK, 2 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Colbeck - Invited seminar at University of Maryland, USA, 7 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roger Colbeck gave an invited seminar ("Quantum circuits for quantum operations") at University of Maryland, USA, 7 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Colbeck - Invited talk at an international workshop, Sopot, Poland, 22 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roger Colbeck gave an invited talk ("Entropic constraints on causal structures") at the "Quantum phenomena -- between the whole and the parts" international workshop, Sopot, Poland, 22 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Colbeck - Public engagement talk in the Quantum Pub session of Pint of Science festival, York, 24 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roger Colbeck gave a public engagement talk ("Keeping secrets") in the Quantum Pub session of Pint of Science festival, York, 24 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Collins - Poster presentation (with Amiri R, Fujiwara M et al. Quantum Digital Signatures Transmitted Over a Channel Loss Equivalent to 134 km) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collins R, Amiri R, Fujiwara M et al. Quantum Digital Signatures Transmitted Over a Channel Loss Equivalent to 134 km. Poster presentation at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We459.pdf |
| Description | Collins - Presentation at SPIE Security + Defence, Edinburgh, UK, 26-29 September 2016 . |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RJ Collins gave a presentation ("Photonic quantum digital signatures operating over kilometer ranges in installed optical fiber") at SPIE Security + Defence, Edinburgh, UK, 26-29 September 2016 . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Collins et al - Poster presentation at the 2016 QCrypt, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collins RJ, Donaldson R, Amiri R, Fujiwara M, Honjo T, Shimizu K, Tamaki K, Takeoka M, Wallden P, Dunjko V, Sasaki M, Andersson E, Jeffers J & Buller G presented a poster ("Kilometer Transmission Range Quantum Digital Signatures") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-GarcÃa ("Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García ("Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-GarcÃa, ("One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer"). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Crptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 14, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García, ("One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer"). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Crptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 14, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Contributed talk by Adrian Kent (S-money: virtual tokens for a relativistic economy, work in collaboration with Damian Pitalua-Garcia) at the Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed talk by Adrian Kent (S-money: virtual tokens for a relativistic economy, work in collaboration with Damian Pitalua-Garcia) at the Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Contributed talk by Damián Pitalúa-GarcÃa (Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration. Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity) at the Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Damián Pitalúa-García gave a contributed talk (Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration. Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity) at the Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.rri.res.in/~qff2020/ |
| Description | Contributed talk by Erika Andersson, "Quantum Oblivious Transfer". Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed talk by Erika Andersson, "Quantum Oblivious Transfer". Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cope - Poster presentation (with Colbeck R. Exploiting no-Signalling Extremal Distributions to find Bell Inequalities) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cope T & Colbeck R. Exploiting no-Signalling Extremal Distributions to find Bell Inequalities. Poster presentation at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We477.pdf |
| Description | Cope - Poster presentation (with Hetzel L, Banchi L & Pirandola S. Teleportation Simulation of non-Pauli Channels) at CEWQO 2017 - 24th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Dtu Lyngby, Denmark, 26-30 June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cope T, Hetzel L, Banchi L & Pirandola S. Teleportation Simulation of non-Pauli Channels. Poster presentation at CEWQO 2017 - 24th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Dtu Lyngby, Denmark, 26-30 June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cope - Poster presentation (with Hetzel L, Banchi L & Pirandola S. Teleportation Simulation of non-Pauli Channels) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cope T, Hetzel L, Banchi L & Pirandola S. Teleportation Simulation of non-Pauli Channels. Poster presentation at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We439.pdf |
| Description | Cope T, Goodenough K & Pirandola S. "Converse bounds for quantum and private communication over Holevo-Werner channels". Poster presentation at at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cope T, Goodenough K & Pirandola S. "Converse bounds for quantum and private communication over Holevo-Werner channels". Poster presentation at at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://jila.colorado.edu/qip2019/ |
| Description | Croal et al presented a poster at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Croal C, Thornton M, Peuntinger C, Heim B, Khan I, Marqurdt C, Leuchs G, Wallden P, Andersson E & Korolkova N presented a poster (""Free-Space Quantum Signatures Using Heterodyne Measurements") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Curras Lorenzo G, Razavi M. "Finite-key analysis for memory-assisted decoy-state quantum key distribution". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Curras Lorenzo G, Razavi M. "Finite-key analysis for memory-assisted decoy-state quantum key distribution". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Donaldson - Poster presentation (with Mazzarella M, Collins R et al. State comparison amplification of optical quantum coherent states) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ross Donaldson presented a co-authored poster (with Mazzarella M, Collins R et al. State comparison amplification of optical quantum coherent states) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We420.pdf |
| Description | Donaldson R, Mazzarella L, Collins R, Zanforlin U, Jeffers J & Buller G. Quantum optical state comparison amplification of coherent states. Contributed talk at at SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 22-26 April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Donaldson R, Mazzarella L, Collins R, Zanforlin U, Jeffers J & Buller G. Quantum optical state comparison amplification of coherent states. Contributed talk at at SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 22-26 April 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Donaldson R. Wide-angle receiver for long-distance free-space quantum key distribution. Contributed talk at Photon 18, 3-6 September 2018, Birmingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Donaldson R. Wide-angle receiver for long-distance free-space quantum key distribution. Contributed talk at Photon 18, 3-6 September 2018, Birmingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Donaldson R. Wide-angle receiver for long-distance free-space quantum key distribution. Contributed talk at Quantum Photonic Technologies for Space, 8-10th October, Bern Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Donaldson R. Wide-angle receiver for long-distance free-space quantum key distribution. Contributed talk at Quantum Photonic Technologies for Space, 8-10th October, Bern Switzerland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://qtspacebern.sciencesconf.org/ |
| Description | Duan X, Edwards T, Kumar R, Griesser H, Straw A, Wonfor A, White C, Lord A & Spiller T. "Hybrid Manager for QKD Network". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Duan X, Edwards T, Kumar R, Griesser H, Straw A, Wonfor A, White C, Lord A & Spiller T. "Hybrid Manager for QKD Network". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Dynes JF, Tam WWS, Sharpe AW, Lucamarini M, Plews A, Yuan ZL, Takahashi R, Cho JY, Dixon AR, Tanizawa Y, Wonfor A, Penty RV & Shields AJ. "High speed quantum key distribution in a metropolitan network", Contributed talk at Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 22 - 26 April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dynes JF, Tam WWS, Sharpe AW, Lucamarini M, Plews A, Yuan ZL, Takahashi R, Cho JY, Dixon AR, Tanizawa Y, Wonfor A, Penty RV & Shields AJ. "High speed quantum key distribution in a metropolitan network", Contributed talk at Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 22 - 26 April 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Elmabrok & Razavi - Presentation at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Freedom Through Communications Workshop, Washington D.C., USA, 4-8 December 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Elmabrok O. & Razavi M gave a presentation ("Quantum-Classical Access Networks with Embedded Optical Wireless Links") at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Freedom Through Communications Workshop, Washington D.C., USA, 4-8 December 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Elmabrok - Poster presentation (with Ghalaii M & Razavi M. Wireless Access to Quantum Networks) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Osama Elmabrok presented a co-authored poster (with Ghalaii M & Razavi M. Wireless Access to Quantum Networks) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We401.pdf |
| Description | Elmabrok O, Bahrani S, Curras Lorenzo G & Razavi M. "Finite-Key Analysis for Quantum-Classical Access Networks with Hybrid Links". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Elmabrok O, Bahrani S, Curras Lorenzo G & Razavi M. "Finite-Key Analysis for Quantum-Classical Access Networks with Hybrid Links". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27-31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Engagement focused YouTube channel (Quantum Communications Hub) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hub project launched a project specific YouTube channel (Quantum Communications Hub channel) to promote video material highlighting the work of the Hub to members of the public, fellow researchers, industry and any other interested parties. The channel has already got a number of regular subscribers and individual videos have attracted various levels of interest (measured in numbers of views). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4ZZkF8tyiBFLsEl1QzWaA |
| Description | Gerardot - Outreach seminar to approximately 300 secondary school students throughout Scotland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Brian Gerardot delivered an outreach seminar ("Changing the Lightbulb") to approximately 300 secondary school students throughout Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ghalaii - Poster presentation (with Kumar R & Razavi M. Quantum-Scissor Amplified Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution) at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2017 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference), Munich, Germany, 25-29 June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ghalaii M, Kumar R & Razavi M. Quantum-Scissor Amplified Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution. Poster presentation at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2017 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference), Munich, Germany, 25-29 June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ghalaii - Poster presentation (with Kumar R, Ottaviani C et al. Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Enhanced by Quantum Scissors) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Masoud Ghalaii presented a co-authored poster (with Kumar R, Ottaviani C et al. Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Enhanced by Quantum Scissors) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/We480.pdf |
| Description | Ghesquiere - Poster presentation (with Wilson F, Newton E et al. Quantum cryptography using thermal states) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anne Ghesquiere presented a co-authored poster (with Wilson F, Newton E et al. Quantum cryptography using thermal states) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th462.pdf |
| Description | Ghesquiere A, Varcoe B. "Generating secrecy from the act of secrecy". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ghesquiere A, Varcoe B. "Generating secrecy from the act of secrecy". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Gong Y, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I ."Quantum alarm: a novel approach to monitor the physical security of optical transport networks". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gong Y, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I ."Quantum alarm: a novel approach to monitor the physical security of optical transport networks". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Hart A, Semenenko H, Frick S, Erven C, Lowndes D, Sibson P, Thompson M & Rarity J. "Small Form Factor, Low Cost Electronics for Chip Scale and Handheld Quantum Key Distribution Systems". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hart A, Semenenko H, Frick S, Erven C, Lowndes D, Sibson P, Thompson M & Rarity J. "Small Form Factor, Low Cost Electronics for Chip Scale and Handheld Quantum Key Distribution Systems". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Hu & Rarity - Presentation at the Topical Research Meeting on Hybrid Quantum Systems, Nottingham, UK, 16-18 December 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hu J C-Y & Rarity JG gave a presentation ("Saturation nonlinearities of cavity-QED enhanced optical circular birefringence induced by a single quantum-dot spin") at the Topical Research Meeting on Hybrid Quantum Systems, Nottingham, UK, 16-18 December 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Huang Z. Contributed presentation on quantum metrology at Northern Quantum Meeting IV, 18th January 2019, Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Huang gave a contributed presentation on quantum metrology at Northern Quantum Meeting IV, 18th January 2019, Leeds. This is a regional gathering of the quantum community appealing primarily to early career scientists and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Huang Z. Noise-dependent optimal strategies for quantum metrology. Contributed talk at Photon 2018, Birmingham, 3-6 September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Huang Z. Noise-dependent optimal strategies for quantum metrology. Contributed talk at Photon 2018, Birmingham, 3-6 September 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Huwer - Poster presentation (with Felle M, Stevenson M et al. Quantum-dot-based quantum relay operating at telecom wavelength) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Huwer J, Felle M, Stevenson M et al. Quantum-dot-based quantum relay operating at telecom wavelength. Poster presentation at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited talk by Spiller (Quantum Communications Technologies - Quantum Communications Hub) at Dstl (Portsdown West site) for an audience of scientists and engineers (Cyber and Information Systems (CIS) Division) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller was invited to give a specialist talk on Quantum Communications Technologies and the work of the Quantum Communications Hub to a specialist audience of scientists and engineers at the Dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) site of Portsdown West. A particular focus of the talk was the defence and security implications of QKD technology. The talk was attended by more than 30 Dstl employees and was recorded for further dissemination within the organisation. The talk was followed by a Q&A session and a lively discussion on the advantages of quantum communications for national security. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Itoop Puthoor, Contributed conference talk (Quantum Digital Signatures using measurement-device-independent scheme) at QCALLESR, 16/09/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub researcher Puthoor gave a contributed talk (Quantum Digital Signatures using measurement-device-independent scheme) at the 2019 QCALLESR international conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.qcall-itn.eu/site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MAIN-3.pdf |
| Description | Kennard - Invited talk at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jake Kennard gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications in Bristol") at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Kennard - Invited talk at the Quantum UK 2016, Birmingham, UK, 20 - 22 September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jake Kennard gave an invited talk ("Integrated Quantum Photonics") at the Quantum UK 2016, Birmingham, UK, 20 - 22 September 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Kok - Invited talk at the "Unifying Physics and Technology in Light of Maxwell's Equations" Royal Society meeting, Chicheley Hall, 18 November 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pieter Kok gave an invited talk ("Entanglement generation in quantum dots using chiral effects in waveguides") at the "Unifying Physics and Technology in Light of Maxwell's Equations" Royal Society meeting, Chicheley Hall, 18 November 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Kok - Invited tutorial at the?Workshop on parametric effects in the quantum regime, Gothenberg, Sweden, 19 March 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Pieter Kok gave an invited tutorial ("Continuous-variable quantum computing: a tutorial") at the Workshop on parametric effects in the quantum regime, Gothenberg, Sweden, 19 March 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Kok -Invited talk at the Recent Advances in Quantum Metrology workshop, Warsaw, Poland, 2 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pieter Kok gave an invited talk ("Quantum metrology and quantum imaging") at the Recent Advances in Quantum Metrology workshop, Warsaw, Poland, 2 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Koong ZX. "Coherent and incoherent scattering from resonantly driven quantum dots". Poster presentation at Quantum Dot Day 2019, IOP Workshop, Lancaster, 10 January 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Koong ZX. "Coherent and incoherent scattering from resonantly driven quantum dots". Poster presentation at Quantum Dot Day 2019, IOP Workshop, Lancaster, 10 January 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=825373&eventID=1324&traceRedir=2 |
| Description | Koong ZX. Poster presentation at 6th International Workshop on Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties, Rome, 5-7 December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Koong ZX. Poster presentation at 6th International Workshop on Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties, Rome, 5-7 December 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://eqep-workshop.eu/ |
| Description | Kumar - Invited talk at CV-QKD workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 16 February 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rupesh Kumar gave an invited talk ("Distributing Secret Keys with Quantum Continuous Variables") at CV-QKD workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 16 February 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Kumar - Poster presentation (with Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. Quantum-Classical Transmission on Single Wavelength) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rupesh Kumar presented a co-authored poster (with Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. Quantum-Classical Transmission on Single Wavelength) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Experimental Demonstration of Simultaneous Quantum and Classical Coherent Communication using a Single Wavelength Channel". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Experimental Demonstration of Simultaneous Quantum and Classical Coherent Communication using a Single Wavelength Channel". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Kumar et al - Poster presentation at 2016 QCrypt, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kumar R, Tang X, Asif R, Wonfor A, Penty R, Savory S & White IH gave a poster presentation ("Practical Challenges in Classical Coherent Receivers for Detecting High Speed CV-QKD Signals") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt16), Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Kumar et al - Poster presentation at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt16), Washington DC, USA,12-16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kumar gave a poster presentation ("Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Displaced Coherent States", co-authored with Tang X, Asif R, Wonfor A, Penty R, Savory S & White IH) at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt16), Washington DC, USA,12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Laing A et al. - Contributed talk at CLEO Europe Conference, Munich, Germany, 24 June 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Laing A et al. gave a talk ("Universal Linear Optics") at CLEO Europe Conference, Munich, Germany, 24 June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Laing A et al. - Contributed talk at SPIE Conference, San Diego, USA, 10 August 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Laing A et al. gave a contributed talk ("Universal Linear Optics") at SPIE Conference, San Diego, USA, 10 August 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Laing A. - Presentation at the Quantum Europe conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 17 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anthony Laing gave a presentation at the Quantum Europe conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 17 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Laurenza - Poster presentation (with Braunstein S & Pirandola S. Finite-resource teleportation stretching for continuous-variable systems) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Riccardo Laurenza presented a co-authored poster (with Braunstein S & Pirandola S. Finite-resource teleportation stretching for continuous-variable systems) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th473.pdf |
| Description | Laurenza - Poster presentation (with Pirandola. General bounds for sender-receiver capacities in multipoint quantum communications) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Riccardo Laurenza presented with Pirandola S a poster on General bounds for sender-receiver capacities in multipoint quantum communications at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th456.pdf |
| Description | Lo Piparo et al - Contributed talk at Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation Conference, Singapore, July 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lo Piparo N, Razavi M & Munro W. J. gave a contributed talk ("Simple and Efficient Memory-Assisted Quantum Key Distribution") at Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation Conference, Singapore, July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lo Piparo et al - Contributed talk at the 2016 QCrypt conference, Washington DC, USA, September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lo Piparo N, Razavi M & Munro W. J. gave a contributed talk ("Toward feasible long-distance quantum communications systems") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lord - Invited talk at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Lord gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications: A BT Perspective") at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lord - Participation in Workshop (QT in Cyber Security, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Lord represented the Quantum Communications Hub and gave a presentation on the applications of quantum technologies in the cyber security sector, at a "market focussed" innovation workshop organised by Innovate UK in London on 25 February 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to determine the most promising business uses for QT within cyber security, report on key market-focused aspects (e.g. potential market size, timelines, enablers and barriers) and determine the level of interest in them from key stakeholders. The workshop involved not only QT developers (academia and industry), but also potential end-users from these markets, who will help to validate the best business cases for each sector. The workshop provided an opportunity to stimulate and influence the development of emerging business and market applications of QT within the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lord - Technical demos at the "Powering the Global Connected Society" industrial engagement event, London, UK, 18-20 October 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Lord presented technical demonstrations of the Hub's quantum key distribution systems for quantum communications hub industrial partner BT, for industrial audience at the "Powering the Global Connected Society" industrial engagement event, London, UK, 18-20 October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lord - technical demos during public engagement event (New Scientist Live, London, September 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Lord presented technical demonstrations of the Hub's quantum key distribution systems for quantum communications on behalf of hub industrial partner BT, for the general public at the New Scientist Live public engagement event, London, UK, 22-25 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lowndes - Poster presentation (with Frick S, Harrington B & Rarity J. Low Cost, Short Range Quantum Key Distribution) at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2017 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference), Munich, Germany, 25-29 June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | David Lowndes presented a co-authored poster (with Frick S, Harrington B & Rarity J. Low Cost, Short Range Quantum Key Distribution) at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2017 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference), Munich, Germany, 25-29 June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lowndes D. Quantum key distribution for nanosatellite-to ground application. Contributed talk at Photon 2018, Birmingham, 3-6 September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lowndes D. Quantum key distribution for nanosatellite-to ground application. Contributed talk at Photon 2018, Birmingham, 3-6 September 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lowndes et al - Contributed talk at CLEO Europe/EQEC 2015, Munich, Germany, 21-25 June 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lowndes D, Frick S, Nock R, Linares-Vallejo E & Rarity JG gave a contributed talk ("Low cost, short range quantum key distribution") at CLEO Europe/EQEC 2015 conference, Munich, Germany, 21-25 June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Lowndes et al - Contributed talk at the Photon16 conference, Leeds, UK, 5 - 8 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lowndes D, Frick S, Collins R, Hart A, Linares-Vallejo E, Maini N & Rarity JG gave a contributed talk ("Low cost, short range, free space quantum key distribution") at the Photon16 conference, Leeds, UK, 5 - 8 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lupo - Poster presentation (with Ottaviani C, Papanastasiou P & Pirandola S. Composable Security of Measurement-Device-Independent Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution against Coherent Attacks) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cosmo Lupo presented a co-authored poster (with Ottaviani C, Papanastasiou P & Pirandola S. Composable Security of Measurement-Device-Independent Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution against Coherent Attacks) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Marhuenda - Presentation at invited visit to the UK General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J. Marhuenda gave a presentation ("Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared QKD Resources") at invited visit to the UK General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) on quantum key distribution with NFV and SDN. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Mazzarella - Poster presentation (with Donaldson R, Collins R et al. Quantum State Comparison Amplifier with Feedforward State Correction) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Luca Mazzarella presented a co-authored poster (with Donaldson R, Collins R et al. Quantum State Comparison Amplifier with Feedforward State Correction) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th461.pdf |
| Description | Mazzarella L, Donaldson R, Collins R, Zanforlin U, Tatsi G, Buller G & Jeffers J. "Hall Rhin Quantum state comparison amplifier with feedforward state correction". Poster presentation at SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 22-26 April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mazzarella L, Donaldson R, Collins R, Zanforlin U, Tatsi G, Buller G & Jeffers J. "Hall Rhin Quantum state comparison amplifier with feedforward state correction". Poster presentation at SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 22-26 April 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mazzarella L, Jeffers J. "A Learning Scheme with Coherent State Amplification". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mazzarella L, Jeffers J. "A Learning Scheme with Coherent State Amplification". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Mazzarella et al. - Poster presentation at 48th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Sacramento, California, USA 28 May - 1 June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mazzarella L, Donaldson RJ, Collins RJ, Zanforlin U, Buller GS & Jeffers J. Poster presentation ("A state comparison amplifier with feed forward state correction") at 48th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Sacramento, California, USA 28 May - 1 June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Newton et al - Poster presentation at the Cambridge Wireless TEC workshop, Cambridge, UK, 14 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Newton E, Everitt M, Wilson F & Varcoe B gave a poster presentation ("Central Broadcast Quantum Cryptography") at the Cambridge Wireless TEC workshop, Cambridge, UK, 14 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Newton et al - Poster presentation at the Summer school, Ecole de physique des Heuches, Les Heuches, France, 15 September 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Newton E, Everitt M, Wilson F & Varcoe B - presented a poster ("Hanbury-Brown Twiss correlations in Bose-Einstein condensates of photons at Cold atoms") at the Summer school, Ecole de physique des Heuches, Les Heuches, France, 15 September 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Organisation of workshop on NFV and QKD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | University of Bristol (led by Nejabati R), ETSI and UK Quantum Communication Hub organised a workshop on 'NFV and QKD: A Necessary Convergence' hosted at the University of Bristol. The aim of the workshop was to discuss security requirements of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) that can be satisfied by QKD, technological barriers for their implementation and a strategy for coordinated standardisation. The outcome of this workshop was announced publicly in the ETSI event in South Korea i.e. 3rd ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum-Safe Cryptography. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ottaviani - Poster presentation (with Lupo C & Pirandola S. Thermal quantum cryptography: Solutions at the microwave regime) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carlo Ottaviani presented a co-authored poster (with Lupo C & Pirandola S. Thermal quantum cryptography: Solutions at the microwave regime) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th401.pdf |
| Description | Ottaviani - Research visit and seminar, Beijing University, July 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Carlo Ottaviani, a PDRA with the Hub, was Ottaviani C was personally invited for a research visit and to deliver a seminar ("Quantum cryptography with continuous variables: unconditional security in point-to- point and end-to-end configuration") at Beijing University of post and telecommunications, between 2 July - 7 July 2016. The purpose of the meeting was to present the work of the Hub and engage in discussions regarding a potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ottaviani C - Poster presentation (with Lupo C, Laurenza R & Pirandola S. Multipartite measurement-device independent quantum cryptography: Conferencing and secret sharing) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carlo Ottaviani presented a co-authored poster (with Lupo C, Laurenza R & Pirandola S. Multipartite measurement-device independent quantum cryptography: Conferencing and secret sharing) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th409.pdf |
| Description | Parker - Poster presentation (with Joo J, Razavi M & Spiller T. Hybrid Photonic Loss Resilient Entanglement Swapping) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Parker R, Joo J, Razavi M & Spiller T. Hybrid Photonic Loss Resilient Entanglement Swapping. Poster presentation at at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participation in Cheltenham Science Festival 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | University of Bristol had the opportunity to have a stand at Cheltenham Science Festival through the Quantum Communications Hub. The general focus of the stall was on light and it's interaction with the world. For more advanced audiences, the stall also offered a chance to discuss how light is controlled for quantum computation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participation in Science Museum display |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Partner Bristol were approached in 2014 to display an object to demonstrate quantum technology in the new Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum in London. The object is the world's first reconfigurable two-photon integrated optical chip, capable of performing a diverse range of quantum-enhanced tasks, including computation, quantum simulation and preparation of photons to be used in quantum key distribution. It is now part of the Cryptography section in the permanent exhibition, which opened in Dec 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/december/quantum-chip-science-museum-.html |
| Description | Paterson - Invited 2-hour masterclass on "Cryptography - Everywhere" to a group of 30 lower sixth form students at Esher College, Surrey, 6 July 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Professor Paterson, a Co-I with the Quantum Communications Hub project, was invited to give a 2-hour masterclass on "Cryptography - Everywhere" to a group of 30 lower sixth form students at Esher College, Surrey, on 6 July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paterson - Invited class on "Binary" to a group of 20 year 6 schoolchildren at Archdeacon Cambridge Primary School, Twickenham, 26 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Kenny Paterson was invited to give a 90-minute class on "Binary" to a group of 20 year 6 schoolchildren at Archdeacon Cambridge Primary School, Twickenham, 26 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paterson - Invited seminar talks at the "Summer school on real-world crypto and privacy", Sibenik, Croatia, June 5-10, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Kenny Paterson gave invited seminar talks ("AE Security for SSH") at the "Summer school on real-world crypto and privacy", Sibenik, Croatia, June 5-10, 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paterson - Invited talk and panel participation at the AWACS single-day workshop in Vienna, Austria, 8 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kenny Paterson gave an invited talk and participated in a panel discussion at the AWACS ("A Workshop About Cryptography Standards") single-day workshop in Vienna, focusing on the work of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG), a Research Group of the IRTF which he co-chairs. Vienna, Austria, 8 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paterson - Participation in panel discussion on the Importance of Standardisation, during 5th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Workshop, London, 13-15 Sep 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Kenny Paterson participated in a panel discussion on the Importance of Standardisation, during 5th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Workshop, London, 13-15 Sep 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/1173-etsi-iqc-quantum-safe-workshop-2017 |
| Description | Paterson - Presentation at the Times Cheltenham Science Festival (07/06/15) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kenny Paterson gave a presentation at the Times Cheltenham Science Festival (7/6/15), jointly with Professor Keith Martin (RHUL), on balancing security and privacy in the Internet age ("Privacy vs Protection). The primary audience was members of the general public and the ensuing debate attracted lots of questions from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paterson et al - provided training for project team on classical cryprography |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Paterson K, Degabriele JP and Shepherd D organised and delivered a one-day introductory course on cryptography for Hub members at RHUL. The focus on the event was on introducing basic cryptographic primitives and the provable security approach by which they are analysed in modern cryptography. Roughly 35 people attended; the lectures were delivered by Degabriele, Paterson, and two staff members from GCHQ. The event was well-received by attendees. A follow-up training day will take place on 13 December 2016 and will focus on more applied aspects, including the use of cryptography to build secure communications channels. Royal Holloway, UK, 4 April 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Penty - Invited talk at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Penty, a Co-I at the Quantum Communications Hub project, was invited to give a talk ("Extending quantum research networks to industry and other users") at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Penty R. "Quantum Communications". Contributed talk at Cambridge-Tsinghua Engineering Forum, Cambridge, 2 Oct 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Penty R. "Quantum Communications". Contributed talk at Cambridge-Tsinghua Engineering Forum, Cambridge, 2 Oct 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-tsinghua-engineering-forum-comes-back-cambridge |
| Description | Pirandola - Invited Seminar (Czech Republic) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stefano Pirandola was invited to give a seminar on "Non-Markovian Reactivation of Quantum Repeaters" at the Department of Optics, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, on 13 April 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Pirandola - Invited Seminar (Milan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stefano Pirandola was invited to give a seminar ("Relay-based protocols in correlated-noise Gaussian environments") at the Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy, on 14 July 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Pirandola S, Braunstein S, Laurenza R, Ottaviani C, Cope T, Spedalieri G & Banchi L. "Theory of channel simulation and bounds for private communication". Poster presentation at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pirandola S, Braunstein S, Laurenza R, Ottaviani C, Cope T, Spedalieri G & Banchi L. "Theory of channel simulation and bounds for private communication". Poster presentation at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://jila.colorado.edu/qip2019/ |
| Description | Pirandola S, Laurenza R & Banchi L. "Conditional channel simulation". Poster presentation at 22° Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pirandola S, Laurenza R & Banchi L. "Conditional channel simulation". Poster presentation at 22° Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://jila.colorado.edu/qip2019/ |
| Description | Pirandola S, Laurenza R & Braunstein S. "Teleportation simulation of bosonic Gaussian channels: Strong and uniform convergence". Poster presentation at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pirandola S, Laurenza R & Braunstein S. "Teleportation simulation of bosonic Gaussian channels: Strong and uniform convergence". Poster presentation at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://jila.colorado.edu/qip2019/ |
| Description | Pirandola S, Laurenza R & Lupo C. "Fundamental limits to quantum channel discrimination". Poster presentation at 22° Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pirandola S, Laurenza R & Lupo C. "Fundamental limits to quantum channel discrimination". Poster presentation at 22° Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2019, January 14-18, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://jila.colorado.edu/qip2019/ |
| Description | Poster presentation - Albosh S, Spiller T, Chunnilall C. Actively-Stabilised Variable Asymmetry Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for QKD Device Characterisation, QCrypt 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sophie Albosh gave an online poster presentation (Actively-Stabilised Variable-Asymmetry Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for QKD Device Characterisation) at the 2021 QCrypt international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Poster presented by Damián Pitalúa-GarcÃa, "One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer". Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented by Damián Pitalúa-García, "One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer". Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.rri.res.in/~qff2020/ |
| Description | Price A et al - Poster presentation (Quantum Key Distribution Without Sifting) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alasdair Price presented a co-authored poster (with Rarity J & Erven C. Quantum Key Distribution Without Sifting) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Th418.pdf |
| Description | Price A, Rarity J & Erven C. "Implementing Hybrid Quantum-Postquantum Security in a Prototype Network". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Price A, Rarity J & Erven C. "Implementing Hybrid Quantum-Postquantum Security in a Prototype Network". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Price et al - Contributed talk at the International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists, Barcelona, Spain, 19 - 21 October 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Price AB, Aguado A, Hugues-Salas E, Haigh PA, Sibson P, Marhuenda J, Kennard J, Rarity JG, Thompson MG, Nejabati R, Simeonidou D & Erven C., from partner Bristol University, gave a contributed talk ("Practical Integration of Quantum Key Distribution with Next-Generation Networks") at the International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists, Barcelona, Spain, 19 - 21 October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Production of series of public/user engagement videos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hubs has created a number of public and user engagement videos to promote the Hub's work on quantum secure communications, and publicise the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. The material includes: 4 video interviews with Quantum Technology Hubs Directors (Beaumont, Bongs, O'Brien, Spiller); 1 video interview with the Director of the Quantum Metrology Institute (Rhys Lewis); 2 video interviews with international quantum technologies experts (Kelly Richdale, ID Quantique; Rob Thew, University of Geneva); 2 video interviews with representatives of major industrial partners (Ole Kock, e2v; Tim Whitley, BT); 1 video highlighting the focus on commercialisation in the national programme and the relationships with industry ("Stimulating applications and market opportunities"); and 1 video discussing quantum communications and the work of the hub for the general public. The material is available on the project's YouTube channel, accessible at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4ZZkF8tyiBFLsEl1QzWaA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4ZZkF8tyiBFLsEl1QzWaA |
| Description | Project specific Twitter feed (@QCommHub) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In June 2016, the Quantum Communications Hub project team launched a project specific twitter feed (@QCommHub) to promote the work of the Hub, initiate a dialogue with fellow researchers, industry and members of the public, and to use as a platform to publish the latest updates from the project, be it new papers or job advertisements. To date (March 2018), the feed has more than 700 followers from all over the work and has proved invaluable as a user engagement platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/QCommHub |
| Description | Puthoor et al - Poster presentation at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Puthoor I, Amiri R, Wallden P, Curty M & Andersson E, from partner Heriot Watt University, gave a poster presentation (""Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Digital Signatures") at the 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt) 2016, Washington DC, USA, 12-16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Quantum Communications Hub - Organisation of, and participation in, the 2016 National Quantum Technologies Showcase event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hub organised the 2nd National Quantum Technologies Showcase event following the success of the inaugural event at the Royal Society, London on 11/11/15. The 2016 event also took place in London, at the QEII Conference Centre on 3 November 2016. The Hub oversaw every aspect of the organisation of the event, with input from a working group consisting of representatives from UKNQT programme partners (the other three Hubs, NPL, EPSRC, BEIS, KTN, Innovate UK, Dstl). More than 40 technical demonstrators were exhibited and more than 600 delegates (incl. exhibitors) registered for the event. The Hub participated with the following three exhibits: low-cost, short-range quantum key distribution; integrated quantum key distribution; and quantum encryption. The event was a huge success and was used as the platform for both the launch (publication) of the Blackett Review into Quantum Technologies by the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, and his team at GOS, and the announcement of the Innovation Fund £19m competition winners for projects aimed at the commercialisation of quantum technologies. The event was preceded by an international VIP reception the evening before coordinated by the Foreign Commonwealth Office at Lancaster House, which was attended by some 100+ high profile, senior industrialists from international companies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/quantumtechshowcase2016launch/ |
| Description | Quantum Communications Hub - participation in 2015 National Quantum Technologies Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hub took part in, and helped with the organisation of, the inaugural National Quantum Technology Showcase event. The primary audience were representatives from Business and Industry and the format of the event comprised of short presentations by national quantum technologies programme stakeholders (all hub directors - including Spiller; members of the EPSRC/the Strategic Advisory Board of the QT programme, industrial partners, etc.) and also networking time when all delegates were able to view demonstrations organised by the four Hubs and their industrial partners. The QComm Hub participated with three demonstrations by the University of Bristol (prototype handheld quantum key distribution system), ADVA Optical Networking Ltd (system demonstrating the ability to secure data transmitted on an optical link) and Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (system demonstrating how quantum cryptography can be used to secure network comms). The event attracted over 300 delegates from the UK and abroad and due to the success of the event, a decision has been made to turn this into an annual event. https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/ukquantumhubs/ Royal Society, London, UK, 11 November 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Quantum Communications Hub participation in the Inaugural National Quantum Technologies Showcase - November 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | All four national quantum technology hubs took part into a national showcase event on 11 November 2015 at the Royal Society in London. The primary audience were representatives from Business and Industry and the format of the event comprised of short presentations by national quantum technologies programme stakeholders (all hub directrors - including Spiller; members of the EPSRC/the Strategic Advisory Board of the QT programme, industrial partners, etc.) and also networking time when all delegates were able to view demonstrations organised by the four Hubs and their industrial partners. The QComm Hub participated with three demonstrations by the Univeristy of Bristol (prototype handheld quantum key distribution system), ADVA Optical Networking Ltd (system demonstrating the ability to secure data transmitted on an optical link) and Toshiba Research Eurpe Ltd (system demonstrating how quantum cryptography can be used to secure network comms). The event attracted over 300 delegates from the UK and abroad and due to the success of the event, a decision has been made to turn this into an annual event. Media references can be seen in http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/future-technology-on-show-at-quantum-technology-showcase/109917/ and http://www.marinelink.com/news/technology-quantum-future400771.aspx and http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/future-technology-on-show-at-quantum-technology-showcase/109917/ and http://www.bloomberg.com/research/markets/news/article.asp?docKey=600-201511120901M2______EUPR_____73a9000002f21de7_3600-1 amongst others. As a result of this event, the Director and Business Development Manager have made a number of contacts and have received a number of requests for further information/collaboration, which we are currently looking into. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/ukquantumhubs/ |
| Description | R.Kumar - Time synchronization for data acquisition and signal processing in a CV-QKD receiver system. Poster presentation at 1 st secure quantum communication school, 7-11 May 2018, Baiona, Spain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rupesh Kumar presented a poster (Time synchronization for data acquisition and signal processing in a CV-QKD receiver system) at the 1st secure quantum communication school, 7-11 May 2018, Baiona, Spain - he highlighted the work of the Hub to an international audience of around 100 professional practitioners and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.qcall-itn.eu/sqc-school/ |
| Description | Ragy - Contributed talk at the Quantum Roundabout young researchers' conference, Nottingham, UK, 6-8 July 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sammy Ragy, a PDRA with the Quantum Communications Hub, gave a contributed talk ("High-rate device-independent quantum randomness generation") at the Quantum Roundabout young researchers' conference, Nottingham, UK, 6-8 July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ragy - Public engagement talk at the Pint of Science festival, York, May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sammy Ragy, a PDRA with the Quantum Communications Hub , gave a public engagement talk ("Keeping secrets with a side of quantumness") in the Quantum Pub session of Pint of Science festival, York, 24 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ragy S, Brown P & Colbeck R. "Feasibility of device-independent randomness expansion". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ragy S, Brown P & Colbeck R. "Feasibility of device-independent randomness expansion". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Rambach M. Poster presentation at 6th International Workshop on Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties, Rome, 5-7 December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rambach M. Poster presentation at 6th International Workshop on Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties, Rome, 5-7 December 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://eqep-workshop.eu/ |
| Description | Rarity - Invited talk (Quantum Comms Technologies) at Heath of Photonics IOP workshop, London, 16 May 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Rarity - Invited talk (Quantum Comms Technologies) at Heath of Photonics IOP workshop, London, 16 May 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=755548&eventID=1236 |
| Description | Rarity - Invited talk at University, Germany, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Rarity, a Co-I and work package lead in the Quantum Communications Hub gave an invited talk ("Nanophotonics, two-level systems and quantum information") at the TU, Berlin, Germany, 27 Jan 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Rarity - Invited talk at the Quantum Technology Challenges for the 21st Century workshop, Chicheley Hall (Royal Society), UK, May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Rarity, a Co-I and work package lead in the Hub was invited to give a talk ("Open challenges for optical quantum technologies") at the Quantum Technology Challenges for the 21st Century workshop, Chicheley Hall (Royal Society), UK. May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Rarity - Invited talk at the Satellite QKD workshop organised by the Quantum Communications Hub, June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Rarity, a Co-I and work package lead in the Hub, gave an invited talk ("Bristol Satellite QKD") at the Satellite Quantum Key Distribution workshop, organised by the Quantum Communications Hub at the ESTEC Harwell Campus, Didcot, UK, 2 June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/page/2/ |
| Description | Rarity - Participation in Single photon workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, July 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Rarity, a Co-I and work package lead in the Quantum Communications Hub, participated in the Single photon workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, July 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Rarity - Participation in Workshop (QT in Finance, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | John Rariy represented the Quantum Communications Hub and gave a presentation on the applications of quantum technologies in the finance sector, at a "market focussed" innovation workshop organised by Innovate UK in London on 23 February 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to determine the most promising business uses for QT within finance, report on key market-focussed aspects (e.g. potential market size, timelines, enablers and barriers) and determine the level of interest in them from key stakeholders. The workshop involved not only QT developers (academia and industry), but also potential end-users from these markets, who will help to validate the best business cases for each sector. The workshop provided an opportunity to stimulate and influence the development of emerging business and market applications of QT within the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Rarity - Talk at German University, April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Rarity, a Co-I and work package lead in the Hub, gave an invited talk ("Nanophotonics, two-level systems and quantum information") at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, 24 April 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Rarity et al - Contributed talk Rarity at CLEO Europe 2015, 21-25 June 2015, Munich, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rarity JG, Androvitsaneas P, Young A, Schneider C, Höfling S, Oulton R gave a talk 'Progress towards a deterministic spin photon interface in a quasi-1D system', at the CLEO Europe conference in 21-25 June 2015, Munich, Germany |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Razavi - Participation in European Commission invitation-only workshop on Quantum Cryptography and Communication Networks and Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mohsen Razavi represented the Hub at an invitation-only Workshop on Quantum Cryptography and Communication Networks and Applications organised by the European Commission (DG CNECT) on 20 April 2017 (European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu, Brussels, Belgium). The objective was to engage stakeholders from industry, users and academia to help the Commission in defining a possible initiative in this area to be launched after 2020. This initiative would run in parallel to the intended Quantum Technologies Flagship Initiative and would aim at developing and deploying a quantum-based secure key distribution network across Europe offering a range of services for both public and private actors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Razavi M - Invited talk ("Memory-assisted quantum key distribution") at Tsinghua University, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mohsen Razavi, a Hub Co-I, gave an invited talk ("Memory-assisted quantum key distribution") at Tsinghua University, China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Razavi M. - Co-organiser of 2nd International Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information, Shanghai, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mohsen Razavi, a Hub Co-I, was one of the co-organisers of 2nd International Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information, Shanghai, China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Razavi M. Invited talk ("Memory-assisted quantum key distribution") at Sharif University of Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mohsen Razavi, a Co-I with the Hub, gave an invited talk ("Memory-assisted quantum key distribution") at Sharif University of Technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Roberts et al - Contributed talk (with Lucamarini M, Yuan Z et al. Reconfigurable network for quantum digital signatures mediated by measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roberts presented a contributed talk (with Lucamarini M, Yuan Z et al. Reconfigurable network for quantum digital signatures mediated by measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mo45.pdf |
| Description | Roger Colbeck gave a tutorial on device-independence at the International Telecommunications Union Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks (FG-QIT4N), Jinan, China, December 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roger Colbeck gave a tutorial on device-independence at the International Telecommunications Union Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks (FG-QIT4N), Jinan, China, December 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Semenenko H, Sibson P, Erven C & Thompson M. "Integrated Photonic Devices for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Semenenko H, Sibson P, Erven C & Thompson M. "Integrated Photonic Devices for Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Shields - Invited talk the Quantum technology for the 21st century research workshop, Royal Society, London, 9-10 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Shields, a Co-I and work package lead with the Quantum Communications Hub, gave an invited talk ("Quantum communications in telecom networks") at the Quantum technology for the 21st century research workshop, Royal Society, London, 9-10 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Shields - Invited talks at the 4th ETSI/IQC workshop on Quantum Safe Cryptography, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Shields, a Co-I and work package lead in the Quantum Communications Hub gave invited talks (x2 - on the Quantum Communications Hub and the work of the ETSI QKD Industry Specification Group) at the 4th ETSI/IQC workshop on Quantum Safe Cryptography, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Short user engagement film (QT 2017 Showcase - Quantum Communications Hub) promoting the work of the Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short user engagement video (QT 2017 Showcase - Quantum Communications Hub) describing the work of the hub, the specific technologies currently being developed in the area of quantum communications and the potential applications of these technologies. Filming took place at the 2017 Quantum Technologies Showcase, at the QEII in London, and includes footage of the director Tim Spiller as well as other researchers of the Hub (Dr Wonfor, University of Cambridge; Dr Bahrami, University of York; Dr Hart, University of Bristol) being interviewed about their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHngxobjO8s&t=2s |
| Description | Short user engagement film (The Face of Quantum Communications Technology) promoting the work of the Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hub, with additional financial support (£5,000) from the EPSRC, commissioned a user engagement film (The Face of Quantum Communications Technology) to highlight the work that's taking place in the Hub. Professor Tim Spiller acted as scientific adviser for the content and supervised the production. The film was promoted through the project twitter feed, the project website and at various user engagement events (e.g. 2016 National Quantum Technologies Showcase). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KUZKh1z2gs |
| Description | Sibson et al - Contributed talk (with Lowndes D, Frick S et al. Networked Quantum-Secured Communications with Hand-held and Integrated Devices: Bristol's Activities in the UK Quantum Communications Hub) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Phil Sibson presented a co-authored talk (with Lowndes D, Frick S et al. Networked Quantum-Secured Communications with Hand-held and Integrated Devices: Bristol's Activities in the UK Quantum Communications Hub) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://2017.qcrypt.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mo24.pdf |
| Description | Sibson et al - Contributed talk at the CLEO 2015 conference, San Jose, USA, May 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sibson P et al gave a contributed talk ("Chip-based Quantum Key Distribution") at the CLEO 2015 conference, San Jose, USA, May 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Sibson et al - Contributed talk at the CLEO Europe 2015 conference, Munich, Germany, 21-25 June 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sibson P et al gave a contributed talk ("Chip-based Quantum Key Distribution") at the CLEO Europe 2015 conference, Munich, Germany, 21-25 June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Sibson et al - Contributed talk at the Photon16 conference, Leeds, UK, 5 - 8 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sibson P , Kennard J , Stanisic S , Erven C, Miki S, Yamashita T, Fujiwara M, Sasaki M, Terai H, Tanner MG, Natarajan CM, Hadfield RH, O'Brien JL, Thompson MG gave a contributed talk ("Quantum Key Distribution with Silicon Integrated Photonics") at the Photon16 conference, Leeds, UK, 5 - 8 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Sibson et al - Contributed talk at the QCrypt 2016 conference, Washington DC, USA, 12 - 16 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sibson P, Kennard J, Stanisic S, Erven C, Thompson MG gave a contributed talk ("Integrated Silicon Photonics for Quantum Key Distribution and Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed QKD with Integrated Photonics") at the QCrypt 2016 conference, Washington DC, USA, 12 - 16 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Sidhu J, Kok. P. "Optimal estimation of complex squeezing in phase space", Contributed talk at the APS March Meeting, 4 - 8 March 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed talk at international research conference with more than 100 attendees to publicise the work of the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR19/Session/S28.6 |
| Description | Spiller - Canada Quantum Technologies Expert Mission, 19-23 March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Tim Spiller traveled to Canada for a week as part of an Innovate UK (IUK) Global Expert Mission into Quantum Technologies. Delivered by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) with support from the Catapult Centres, the Expert Missions is helping to further IUK's global strategy by providing the evidence base for where it should invest and by providing the opportunities for UK businesses to build partnerships and collaborations with key economies. Canada has invested over $1B in quantum-related R&D over the past decade and is currently a global leader in this emerging field. In 2017, the UK and Canadian governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to science, technology and innovation. The MOU represents a commitment to enhance bilateral co-operation on complementary areas of research, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, with the aim of accelerating the commercialisation of emerging technologies, and thus promoting the growth of jobs and businesses. Quantum technologies is stated as being one of four initial priority areas on which to focus. The Canada Quantum Technologies Expert Mission visited Ottawa, Waterloo and Vancouver during the week of 19-23 March 2018. The UK and Canada have a history of world-class research and substantial investment in quantum science and quantum technology. There are two distinct industrial markets: specialist technology to support the ~1,500 laboratories world-wide engaged in quantum research, and end-user products incorporating quantum technology. This Mission is particularly interested in Canadian work on QKD in space (a key Quantum Communications Hub priority for a potential phase 2 Hub as part of the national programme), and future mission and exploitation plans, and Canadian work on quantum computers. The Mission was led by Sir Peter Knight and included senior programme stakeholders from all four UK Quantum Technology Hubs, the National Physical Laboratory as well as leading industry representatives. It sought to: develop a deeper understanding of the quantum technologies landscape in Canada; explore prospective areas for future collaboration on quantum technologies between the UK and Canada; identify synergies between the activities of the two countries; and gain a greater understanding of Canadian priorities in R&D and industrial, supply-chain, end-user and technology exploitation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://admin.ktn-uk.co.uk/app/uploads/2018/12/2018-Canada-Quantum-Technologies-Expert-Mission-Repor... |
| Description | Spiller - Commentary on Quantum Promise, feature piece on consumer security online in the September issue of TS Today, the online monthly trading standards magazine published by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tim Spiller provided input for the Quantum Promise feature piece on consumer security online in the September issue of TS Today, the online monthly trading standards magazine published by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute. Available to access through: http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/TS-Today/201709/feature/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/TS-Today/201709/feature/ |
| Description | Spiller - Input in Cyber attacks: the response is coming online piece published in the technologist.eu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tim Spiller provided input in an online piece (Cyber attacks: the response is coming) published in the technologist.eu, available to access here: http://www.technologist.eu/cyber-attacks-the-response-is-coming/#cmtoc_anchor_id_5 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.technologist.eu/cyber-attacks-the-response-is-coming/#cmtoc_anchor_id_5 |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk ("Quantum Communications Technologies") at the Physics Review journal 25th Anniversary event. York, 19 October 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | ihe Director of the Hub, Professor Spiller, gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications Technologies") at the Physics Review journal 25th Anniversary event. Physics Review has been supporting and enriching post-16 physics for 25 years. The talk was preceded by experimental workshops and the audience consisted in its majority of secondary school students, their teachers and members of the public. University of York, York, 19 October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk (NPL, Teddington) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Tim Spiller was invited to give a talk on quantum communications technologies and the Quantum Communications Hub as part of a meeting organised by NPL (EMTECH Quantum Technologies Briefing Seminar) on 24 February 2016. The aim of the meeting was to brief Government departments on the impact quantum technologies could have on government policy and procurement, and to help them consider how government can accelerate the UK quantum industry. The talks were accompanied by a poster exhibition further discussing the research undertaken as part of this project, amongst others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk at European Cybersecurity: Future Trends and Policy Challenges workshop, Oxford, 27/01/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller was invited to give a talk ("Quantum Technologies and their implications for Cyber Security") at the European Cybersecurity: Future Trends and Policy Challenges single-day workshop organised by the Department of Politics and International Relations (Oxford Cyber Studies Programme) and the European Commission. The event took place in Oxford on 27 January 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk at industrial engagement event at Adastral Park, BT's global R&D headquarters - 10/06/2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The director of the Quantum Communications Hub, Tim Spiller was invited by BT and Innovation Martlesham, the ICT technology cluster of companies based at Adastral Park, near Ipswich, to present information on the scope, aims and vision of the UK Quantum Technologies Programme in general and the Quantum Communications Hub in particular. The event was very successful (see media news items: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/adastral-park-becomes-quantum-communications-hub--1086623 and http://www.innovationmartlesham.com/articles/adastral-park-prepares-for-major-role-in-national-quantum-communications-initiative/ and also http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Innovationnews/quantumcommunications/index.htm) and it led to a bigger scale event in October of the same year, involving all four Quantum Technologies Hubs. After the talk lots of the attendees expressed an interest in the new quantum technologies and discussed potential applications. There were press releases by BT (http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Innovationnews/quantumcommunications/index.htm) and the Innovation Martlesham cluster of ICT companies, resident at Adastral Park (http://www.innovationmartlesham.com/articles/adastral-park-prepares-for-major-role-in-national-quantum-communications-initiative/). The visit also resulted into numerous reque |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.innovationmartlesham.com/articles/adastral-park-prepares-for-major-role-in-national-quant... |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller gave an invited talk on the activities of the Hub ("National Network of Quantum Technologies Hubs: Developments with the UK Quantum Communications Hub") at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk at the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, UK, 11-12 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller, the Director of the Quantum Communications Hub, gave an invited talk ("Quantum secure communication technologies") at the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, UK, 11-12 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - Overview of the EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub, invited talk at UK-Japan Quantum Technology Workshop (23 Mar 2015 ? 24 Mar 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The visit (organised by the British Embassy in Tokyo) led to an increased interest for a closer collaboration between the Quantum Communications Hub in the UK and colleagues in Japan, and has resulted in plans being made for a follow-up visit in 2016. The talk highlighted the UK's major investment in quantum technologies and world-class research in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/308589/S_I_Japan_Newslette... |
| Description | Spiller - Participation at the Quantum Technnology - Implementations for Space workshop, ESTEC, The Netherlands, November 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Director of the Hub, Professor Spiller, took part in the "Quantum Technology - Implementations for Space" single-day workshop organised by the Technical and Quality Management Directorate of the European Space Agency. The purpose of the workshop was to present to ESA the Quantum Technology commercialisation programmes that have recently emerged within the ESA member states and to identify possible areas of collaboration for the implementation of Quantum Technologies in space. ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 9 November 2016. A follow-up event has been planned for November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - Participation in Debate on the Future of Cyber Security event (York Festival of Ideas, 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Spiller took part in a public debate about the future of cyber security. Part of the York Festival of Ideas, the event (20/06/15) was organised by the University of York in partnership with the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The debate aimed to highlight the increased need for more sophisticated methods of online security, and to explore the potential that new applications such as quantum encryption can offer. In the context of a discussion which drew lots of questions from the audience and ranged from the increasing extent and sophistication of cyber criminality to the degree of personal responsibility associated with sharing personal data on social media, Spiller summarised recent developments in the field of quantum encryption and the commercialisation potential of QKD, the most mature of the technologies currently in existence. A newspiece about the debate can be accessed through this link: http://quantumcommshub.net/news/recent-debate-highlights-the-importance-of-cyber-security-for-data-communications/ Parts of the event (e.g. interviews with the participants, including Spiller) were recorded, and the video can be accessed through this link: http://mycommunity.theiet.org/communities/videos/210/1004#.VfLb_U3luUk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://quantumcommshub.net/news/recent-debate-highlights-the-importance-of-cyber-security-for-data-c... |
| Description | Spiller - Participation in EPSRC commissioned public dialogue on quantum technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller took part in a public engagement exercise commissioned by the EPSRC and delivered by Kantar Public. The aim of the exercise was to collect evidence on views held by a random sample of the public (around 20-25 people) on the emerging quantum technologies, and record their concerns, hopes, and dilemmas, while also engaging them in a dialogue with experts and researchers to try and inform them of the potential of the new technologies and alleviate some of their fears. The dialogue took place over 2 weekend workshops at the University in York and also incorporated an interim activity (a talk by an industrial partner, Professor Andrew Lord from BT, and a technical demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution). The dialogue was hugely successful and attracted very good feedback from the participating members of the public who enjoyed the experience, interacting with Professor Spiller and other members of the Hub, and witnessing the technology demonstration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/ |
| Description | Spiller - Participation in Responsible Innovation in Quantum Technologies workshop, Royal Society, London, 17 March 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller represented the Hub at the Responsible Innovation in Quantum Technologies workshop, Royal Society, London, 17 March 2015. The event was organised by the London Nanotechology Centre and EPSRC. Further input was provided towards the compilation of a meeting report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Spiller - Presentation ("Quantum Communications Hub") for Gareth Davies, Director-General for BIS, during visit at the University of York, York, UK, 10 June 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller presented the work of the Hub ("Quantum Communications Hub") to Gareth Davies, Director-General for BIS (now BEIS), during visit at the University of York, York, UK, 10 June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - Public talk (Portsmouth) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Following an invitation, Tim Spiller gave an evening public talk on the "Quantum Communications Hub" at the Physics Society in Portsmouth (17 March 2015) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Spiller - Public talk (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Following an invitation, Tim Spiller gave an evening public talk ("Quantum Technologies") for the University of York Physics Society (Physsoc) on October 20th, 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Spiller - Spiller T. Keynote address at the IPAQS Symposium, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 19 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller, the Director of the Quantum Communications Hub, gave a keynote address ("Quantum Communications and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme") at the IPAQS Symposium, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 19 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller - invited talk (Quantum Communications Technologies) at the IET, Coventry branch, Coventry, 7 June 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Spiller - invited talk (Quantum Communications Technologies) at the IET, Coventry branch, Coventry, 7 June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiller - participation in Finance, Networks and Telecommunications view of Quantum Technologies Workshop, London, 11 May 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Professor Spiller took part in a Finance, Networks and Telecommunications view of Quantum Technologies Workshop, (London, 11 May 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiller - participation in facilitated panel discussion on quantum technologies during York Festival Of Ideas ("Life in the Quantum Age", York, 11 June 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Spiller - participation in facilitated panel discussion on quantum technologies during York Festival Of Ideas ("Life in the Quantum Age", York, 11 June 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://quantumcity.org.uk/news/shape-things-come-life-quantum-age-york-festival-ideas |
| Description | Spiller - talk at Quantum Summer School organised at University of York by Imperial College (York, 13-16 August 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Spiller - talk at Quantum Summer School organised at University of York by Imperial College (York, 13-16 August 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188634/quicc-summer-school-2018/ |
| Description | Spiller - talk at the York Talks 2016 (Research in the Spotlight) event, York, 6 January 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | YorkTalks was launched in 2014 as the final event in the University's 50th anniversary year long programme of reputation building events. For the third YorkTalks, the aim was to showcase the very best of the University's research across the seven research themes in order to exemplify commitment to research excellence which forms a key component of the new University Strategy and the new Research Strategy. The YorkTalks audience is drawn from across the academic and non-academic disciplines in the University community as well as external stakeholders such as current and prospective donors, alumni, business and industrial contacts and partners, research partners, and the general public. The format of the event is very much styled to mimic Ted talks. Each session will last 90 minutes. Each speaker had just 15 mins to explain their research. This was followed by a chaired discussion including a Q&A with the audience. More than 100 people attended Tim Spiller's presentation on quantum communications and the work of the EPSRC QComm Hub and a number of questions were answered in the end. A video of the presentation is available on-line through the link provided below |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtdQ_SyOQW0 |
| Description | Spiller T - Invited talk at the single-day quantum technologies workshop on Defence & Security London, UK, 25 October 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Spiller, the Director of the Hub gave an invited talk at the single-day quantum technologies workshop on Defence & Security organised by the Government Office for Science, KTN, UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology and the University of Birmingham, BEIS, London, UK, 25 October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Spiller T. - Quantum (Communications) Technologies. Invited talk at the Department for International Trade, UK Government, London, 8 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Spiller was invited to give a talk to a select group of researchers/senior civil servants at the Department for International Trade, UK Government, in London on September 8th, 2018. The group found out about the potential of quantum communications technologies (incl. for national economic wealth) and the work of the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiller T. Participation in round table discussion as part of CSaP Policy Workshop: Future threats and challenges of quantum technologies, Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge, 4 December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Spiller T. Participation in round table discussion as part of CSaP Policy Workshop: Future threats and challenges of quantum technologies, Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge, 4 December 2018. The Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge worked with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to organise a workshop on the threats and challenges of quantum technologies. The workshop began with a chaired roundtable discussion in the Pitt Building. Main focus of the workshop: Discussions focused on the future threats and challenges posed to UK defence and security by quantum technologies. In particular, the workshop considered: How, and in what ways, could quantum technologies (particularly in the areas of computing and communications), be utilised to pose a threat to the UK? In which domains, or against what targets, are these threats likely to manifest themselves? What type of adversaries (e.g. states, non-state actors, and individuals), might seek to use these technologies against the UK, and in what ways? How might use vary? Are there ethical, normative or legal constraints that might impact on an adversary's willingness to utilise such technologies? What are the frictions or barriers, to exploiting quantum technologies? How would, or could, quantum technologies impact on Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiller T. Quantum Communications Technologies. Invited talk at special Quantum Communications session ahead of evening reception at Canada House organised by Innovate UK to celebrate the arrival of Canadian quantum delegation in the UK, London, 8 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Spiller T. Quantum Communications Technologies. Invited talk at special Quantum Communications session ahead of evening reception at Canada House organised by Innovate UK to celebrate the arrival of Canadian quantum delegation in the UK, London, 8 November 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiller T. Quantum Technologies and Their Implication for Cyber Security. Invited keynote address, Cyber Security and Quantum Computing Symposium, Malvern Festival of Innovation, Great Malvern, 11 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tim Spiller gave an invited keynote address (Quantum Technologies and Their Implication for Cyber Security) at the Cyber Security and Quantum Computing Symposium, Malvern Festival of Innovation, Great Malvern, 11 October 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.festival-innovation.com/programme/cyber-security |
| Description | Spiller T. Quantum Technologies: the UK Quantum Communications Hub. Invited talk and participation in panel discussion at Quantum Communication, What can Quantum Technology do for a data hungry society? Workshop, UCL, London, 2 April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Spiller T. Quantum Technologies: the UK Quantum Communications Hub. Invited talk and participation in panel discussion at Quantum Communication, What can Quantum Technology do for a data hungry society? Workshop, UCL, London, 2 April 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/iccs/events/2019/apr/panel-discussion-quantum-communication-what-can-quantum-t... |
| Description | Spiller T. Quantum technologies and their implications for security. Invited talk at Loughborough University, 14 March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Spiller T. Quantum technologies and their implications for security. Invited talk at Loughborough University, 14 March 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Spiller and Andrea attended the 3rd Quantum Technology - Implementations for Space Workshop (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands), Noordwijk, Netherlands, 20-21 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Spiller and Andrea attended the 3rd Quantum Technology - Implementations for Space Workshop (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands), Noordwijk, Netherlands, 20-21 November 2018. The Workshop was organised by the Technical and Quality Management Directorate of the European Space Agency. The purpose of the workshop was to follow on to last year's workshop and for ESA to identify possible areas of collaboration for the implementation of Quantum Technologies in space with the Quantum Technology commercialisation programmes that have recently emerged within the ESA member states. The workshop was sponsored by: ESA Directorate of Earth Observation (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth ) COST Action QTSpace (http://www.qtspace.eu/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Spiller, Invited Talk at GRADnet Summer School, April 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Tim Spiller was invited to give a talk at the GRADnet Quantum Technologies School (24-26 April 2017) at Liphook, Hampshire. His talk was titled "Quantum Communications Technologies". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Tadza N, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Adaptive Forward Error Correcting Design for Faster PostProcessing in Practical CV-QKD systems". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tadza N, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Adaptive Forward Error Correcting Design for Faster PostProcessing in Practical CV-QKD systems". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Tadza N, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Equalization Technique of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Methods in Quantum Coherent Communications". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tadza N, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Equalization Technique of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Methods in Quantum Coherent Communications". Poster presentation at QCrypt 2018, Shanghai, China, 27 - 31 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://2018.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Tang X, Kumar R, Cunningham D, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Inter-Symbol-Interference Reduction in Continuous Variable QKD Using Equalization". Contributed talk at 2018 IEEE Globecom, Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 9-13 December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tang X, Kumar R, Cunningham D, Wonfor A, Penty R & White I. "Inter-Symbol-Interference Reduction in Continuous Variable QKD Using Equalization". Contributed talk at 2018 IEEE Globecom, Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 9-13 December 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org/ |
| Description | Tang et al - Poster Presentation at the Quantum UK 2016 conference, Birmingham, UK, 20-22 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tang X, Asif R, Kumar R, Wonfor A, Penty RV & White IH presented a poster presentation ("Optically switched multi-user quantum key distribution") at the Quantum UK 2016 conference, Birmingham, UK, 20-22 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Tang et al - Poster presentation (with Wonfor A, Kumar R et al. Crosstalk Limitations on Reconfigurable QKD Networks) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Xinke Tang presented a co-authored poster (with Wonfor A, Kumar R et al. Crosstalk Limitations on Reconfigurable QKD Networks) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Tang et al - Poster presentation at the Quantum UK 2016 conference, Birmingham, UK, 20-22 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tang X, Asif R, Kumar R, Wonfor R, Savory S, Penty RV & White IH presented a poster presentation ("Getting the best out of balanced homodyne detectors for high speed continues-variable quantum key distribution") at the Quantum UK 2016 conference, Birmingham, UK, 20-22 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Technical Demonstrations at the 3rd national quantum technologies showcase, London, 22 November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Hub presented a number of technical demonstrations to an audience representing government, industry and other members of the research community at the 2017 Showcase event.The technology demonstrators were led by experimental colleagues at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and York, as well as industrial partners Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, BT and ADVA. Our exhibits ranged across the sectors: (i) integrated photonics in the form of chip-based quantum key distribution (QKD), offering distinct commercial advantages in terms of enhanced functionality and cost-effective manufacturing; (ii) quantum keys used as a network resource, demonstrating the adaptive functionalities and agile network capabilities resulting from combining QKD security with existing software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) principles; (iii) low-cost, short-range QKD for use on handheld devices, enabling cryptographic interaction with ATM-like terminals; (iv) an optical fibre-based transmitter and receiver system for exchanging classical and quantum signals using single laser pulse, for monitoring eavesdropping and generating secure keys for cryptographic purposes; (v) a demonstration of securing data centre links with quantum cryptography over optical fibre networks; (vi) an exhibit highlighting work on the UKQNTel project, the extension arm of the UK's Quantum Network linking major R&D and business clusters in Cambridge with and Adastral Park via optical fibre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/ |
| Description | Thompson - Invited public talk ("The Quantum World") at the New Scientist Live public engagement event, London, UK, 14 Nov 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mark Thompson, a Hub Co-I and work package lead, gave an invited public talk ("The Quantum World") at the New Scientist Live public engagement event, London, UK, 14 Nov 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Thompson - Invited talk ("Silicon Quantum Photonics") at the European Conference on Integrated Optics, Warsaw, Poland, 18 - 20 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Thompson, a Hub Co-I and work package lead, gave an invited talk ("Silicon Quantum Photonics") at the European Conference on Integrated Optics, Warsaw, Poland, 18 - 20 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Thompson - Invited talk at the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, UK, 11-12 May 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Thompson, a Co-I and work package lead in the Hub, gave an invited talk ("Integrated quantum photonics") at the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, UK, 11-12 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Thompson - Technical demo at McKinsey & Company annual T-30 summit.Napa, California, USA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Thompson, a Co-I and work package lead, took a package demonstration device taken to the McKinsey & Company annual T-30 summit. This event convenes top leaders of the semiconductor industry and showcases the best up-coming technologies. Napa, California, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Thompson M. Contributed Talk at the IEEE Photonics Society's Annual Meeting, Virginia, USA, 4-8 October 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Thompson, a Hub Co-I and work package lead, gave a contributed talk ("Silicon Quantum Photonics") at the IEEE Photonics Society's Annual Meeting, Virginia, USA, 4-8 October 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Thompson M. Invited talk ("Silicon Quantum Photoincs") at the Silicon Summer School, Ghent, Belgium, 1 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Mark Thompson, a Co-I and work package lead gave an invited talk ("Silicon Quantum Photoincs") at the Silicon Summer School, Ghent, Belgium, 1 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Tserkis S, Dias J, Laurenza R, Braunstein SL, Pirandola S & Ralph T. Simulation of Gaussian channels via teleportation with applications to error correction and secret-key capacities. Contributed talk at the APS March Meeting 2019, 4-8 March 2019; Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tserkis S, Dias J, Laurenza R, Braunstein SL, Pirandola S & Ralph T. Simulation of Gaussian channels via teleportation with applications to error correction and secret-key capacities. Contributed talk at the APS March Meeting 2019, 4-8 March 2019; Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR19/Session/S27.12 |
| Description | Tserkis S, Dias J, Laurenza R, Braunstein SL, Pirandola S & Ralph T. Simulation of Gaussian channels via teleportation with applications to error correction and secret-key capacities. Contributed talk at the APS March Meeting 2019, 4-8 March 2019; Boston, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tserkis et al presented a contributed talk on Simulation of Gaussian channels via teleportation with applications to error correction and secret-key capacities, at the APS March Meeting 2019, 4-8 March 2019; Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They reached an international audience of well over 150 people publicising the work of the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR19/Session/S27.12 |
| Description | User engagement event organised by Innovate UK (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hub Director, Professor Tim Spiller, gave a public talk titled "National Network of Quantum Technologies Hubs: Quantum Communications Hub" at the "Meet the Hubs - Introduction to the Quantum Technologies Programme" event organised by Innovate UK at the Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel, in London on 19 January 2015. The event was targeted at representatives from Industry and Bussiness and its aim was to raise the profile of the National Quantum Technologies Programme and highlight businness opportunities for further involvement. The event was a success with Spiller answering a number of questions about the scope and vision of the Hub, and it generated many requests for similar type events in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/espktn/events-view/-/events/20300562 |
| Description | User engagment talk at event organised by BT (Adastral Park) - October 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a follow-up industrial engagement of the one organised by BT and Innovation Martlesham in June 2015. This particular event titled "Business Opportunities in Quantum Technologies", jointly organised by BT, Innovate Martlesham, the KTN and the Quantum Communications Hub, invited presentations by all four Quantum Technologies Hubs Directors (incl. Tim Spiller) and all presentations were accompanied by a networking session where representatives from industry, start-ups and SMEs were invited to browse exhibition stands, and talk to the Hub directors and their business development managers about potential involvement in the national QT programme and routes to commercialisation. The event was very successful with over 120 attendees on the day and also a fair few media references, e.g. http://www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/25441/uk-could-lead-world-in-quantum-tech-says-bt and http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/bt_and_innovation_martlesham_to_host_quantum_technology_experts_1_4271463 and http://www.innovationmartlesham.com/articles/adastral-park-welcomed-the-uks-national-programme-for-the-exploitation-of-cutting-edge-quantum-technologies/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/25441/uk-could-lead-world-in-quantum-tech-says-bt |
| Description | Varcoe B. Invited talk at the "Cybersecurity and the Emerging Field of Quantum Computing" workshop, Science & Innovation Network , Villa Wolkonsky, Rome, 18 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ben Varcoe, a Co-I in the Hub, gave an invited talk ("National Network of Quantum Technologies Hubs: Quantum Communications Hub") at the "Cybersecurity and the Emerging Field of Quantum Computing" workshop, Science & Innovation Network , Villa Wolkonsky, Rome, 18 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Vergheese I. Invited talk ("Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Digital Signatures") at the 4th ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum Safe Cryptography, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ittoop Puthoor Vergheese, a PDRA in the Hub, gave an invited talk ("Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Digital Signatures") at the 4th ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum Safe Cryptography, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Vinay - Poster presentation ("High-fidelity quantum repeaters") at the Quantum Roundabout conference, Nottingham, UK, 6-8 July 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Scott Vinay, a PDRA with the Hub, gave a poster presentation ("High-fidelity quantum repeaters") at the Quantum Roundabout conference, Nottingham, UK, 6-8 July 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Vinay et al - Poster presentation (The Quantum Trojan Horse Attack) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Scott Vinay presented a co-authored poster (with Pearce M & Kok P. The Quantum Trojan Horse Attack) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | White C. Quantum Key Distribution in Real Networks. Contributed talk at Photon 2018, Birmingham, 3-6 September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | White C. Quantum Key Distribution in Real Networks. Contributed talk at Photon 2018, Birmingham, 3-6 September 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Wilson F, Newton E, Everitt M, Varcoe B. Poster presentation ("Integrating QKD with existing communications systems") at the Photon 2016 international conference, Leeds, UK, 5-8 September 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wilson F, Newton E, Everitt M, Varcoe B from partner Leeds gave a poster presentation ("Integrating QKD with existing communications systems") at the Photon 2016 international conference, Leeds, UK, 5-8 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Wilson F, Newton E, Everitt M, Varcoe B. Poster presentation ("Integrating QKD with existing communications systems") at the QIPC 2015- Quantum Information Processing and Communication international conference, Leeds, UK, 13-18 September 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wilson F, Newton E, Everitt M, Varcoe B. Poster presentation ("Integrating QKD with existing communications systems") at the QIPC 2015- Quantum Information Processing and Communication international conference, Leeds, UK, 13-18 September 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Wonfor A. et al - Contributed talk (Field trial of a QKD and high-speed classical data hybrid metropolitan network) at the Photonics West 2018 conference, San Francisco USA, paper 10559-6 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Adrian Wonfor presented a contributed talk (co-authored with H. Qin, R. Kumar, X. Tang, J. F. Dynes, A. J. Shields, R. V. Penty and I. H. White and titled "Field trial of a QKD and high-speed classical data hybrid metropolitan network") at the Photonics West 2018 international conference, San Francisco USA, paper 10559-6. The talk highlighted the work of the Hub on quantum networking and the construction of the UK's first quantum network in a large international audience of academics, researchers and industry representatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Wonfor et al - Poster presentation (High performance field trials of QKD over a metropolitan network) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Adrian Wonfor presented a co-authored poster (Dynes J, Kumar R et al. High performance field trials of QKD over a metropolitan network) at Qcrypt 2017 - 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Cambridge, UK, 18-22 Sep, 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |