The EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Quantum technologies (QT) are new, disruptive information technologies that can outperform their conventional counterparts, in communications, sensing, imaging and computing. The UK has already invested significantly in a national programme for QT, to develop and exploit these technologies, and is now investing further to stimulate new UK industry and generate a supply of appropriately skilled technologists across the range of QT sectors.
All QT exploit the various quantum properties of light or matter in some way. Our work is in the communications sector, and is based on the fundamental effect that measuring or detecting quantum light signals irreversibly disturbs them. This effect is built into Nature, and will not go away even when technologies (quantum or conventional) are improved in the future. The fundamental disturbance of transmitted quantum light signals enables secure communications, as folk intercepting signals when they are not supposed to (so-called eavesdroppers) will always get caught. This means Alice and Bob can use quantum light signals to set up secure shared data, or keys, which they can then use for a range of secure communications and transactions - this is quantum key distribution (QKD). The irreversible disturbance of light can also be used to generate random numbers - another very important ingredient for secure communications, cryptology, simulation and modelling.
In the modern world where communications are so ubiquitous and important, there is increasing demand for new secure methods. Technologies and methods widely used today will be vulnerable to emergent quantum computing technologies, so encrypted information being sent around today which has a long security shelf-life will be at risk in the future. New "quantum safe" methods that are not vulnerable to any future QT have to be developed. So QKD and new mathematical encryption must be made practical and cost effective, and soon.
The grand vision of the Quantum Communications Hub is therefore to pursue quantum communications at all distance scales, to offer a range of applications and services and the potential for integration with existing infrastructure. Very short distance communications require free space connections for flexibility. Examples include between a phone or other handheld device and a terminal, or between numerous devices and a fixed receiver in a room. The Hub will be engineering these "many-to-one" technologies to enhance practicality and real-world operation. Longer distance conventional communications - at city, metropolitan and inter-city scales - already use optical fibres, and quantum communications have to leverage and complement this. The Hub has already established the UK's first quantum network, the UKQN. We will be extending and enhancing the UKQN, adding function and capability, and introducing new QKD technologies - using quantum light analogous to that used in conventional communications, or using entanglement working towards even longer distance fibre communications. The very longest distance communications - intercontinental and across oceans - require satellites. The Hub will therefore work on a new programme developing ground to satellite QKD links.
Commercial QKD technologies for all distance scales will require miniaturisation, for size, weight and power savings, and to enable mass manufacture. The Hub will therefore address key engineering for on-chip operation and integration.
Although widely applicable, key-sharing does not provide a solution for all secure communication scenarios. The Hub will therefore research other new quantum protocols, and the incorporation of QKD into wider security solutions.
Given the changing landscape worldwide, it is becoming increasingly important for the UK to establish national capability, both in quantum communication technologies and their key components such as light sources and detectors. The Hub has assembled an excellent team to deliver this capability.
All QT exploit the various quantum properties of light or matter in some way. Our work is in the communications sector, and is based on the fundamental effect that measuring or detecting quantum light signals irreversibly disturbs them. This effect is built into Nature, and will not go away even when technologies (quantum or conventional) are improved in the future. The fundamental disturbance of transmitted quantum light signals enables secure communications, as folk intercepting signals when they are not supposed to (so-called eavesdroppers) will always get caught. This means Alice and Bob can use quantum light signals to set up secure shared data, or keys, which they can then use for a range of secure communications and transactions - this is quantum key distribution (QKD). The irreversible disturbance of light can also be used to generate random numbers - another very important ingredient for secure communications, cryptology, simulation and modelling.
In the modern world where communications are so ubiquitous and important, there is increasing demand for new secure methods. Technologies and methods widely used today will be vulnerable to emergent quantum computing technologies, so encrypted information being sent around today which has a long security shelf-life will be at risk in the future. New "quantum safe" methods that are not vulnerable to any future QT have to be developed. So QKD and new mathematical encryption must be made practical and cost effective, and soon.
The grand vision of the Quantum Communications Hub is therefore to pursue quantum communications at all distance scales, to offer a range of applications and services and the potential for integration with existing infrastructure. Very short distance communications require free space connections for flexibility. Examples include between a phone or other handheld device and a terminal, or between numerous devices and a fixed receiver in a room. The Hub will be engineering these "many-to-one" technologies to enhance practicality and real-world operation. Longer distance conventional communications - at city, metropolitan and inter-city scales - already use optical fibres, and quantum communications have to leverage and complement this. The Hub has already established the UK's first quantum network, the UKQN. We will be extending and enhancing the UKQN, adding function and capability, and introducing new QKD technologies - using quantum light analogous to that used in conventional communications, or using entanglement working towards even longer distance fibre communications. The very longest distance communications - intercontinental and across oceans - require satellites. The Hub will therefore work on a new programme developing ground to satellite QKD links.
Commercial QKD technologies for all distance scales will require miniaturisation, for size, weight and power savings, and to enable mass manufacture. The Hub will therefore address key engineering for on-chip operation and integration.
Although widely applicable, key-sharing does not provide a solution for all secure communication scenarios. The Hub will therefore research other new quantum protocols, and the incorporation of QKD into wider security solutions.
Given the changing landscape worldwide, it is becoming increasingly important for the UK to establish national capability, both in quantum communication technologies and their key components such as light sources and detectors. The Hub has assembled an excellent team to deliver this capability.
Planned Impact
As the mission of the Hub is research-led development of quantum communications technologies and their widespread adoption, this should lead to new industries, new applications and new services for new markets. We expect the benefits and therefore the impacts of these to become pervasive, affecting all from government and UK PLC to consumers. To ensure maximum impact of the Hub's work, we will work with a wide range of partners in the public and private sectors, and the different mechanisms they provide for effecting impact. For example:
1. Regular consultation with our Hub Advisory Board, which will include industry leaders with extensive experience in development for market and effective translation of prototype systems into products.
2. Standards, plus active promotion of IP generation, protection and exploitation, directly or through licensing. We will encourage university spin-outs and pre-revenue start-ups. Examples of each from Phase 1 are the highly successful KETS Quantum Security Ltd (commercialisation of chip-based quantum communication technologies), and Arqit (commercialisation of satellite QKD).
3. Direct involvement of industry within the expanding Quantum Technologies (QT) sector to ensure effective translation of research-led systems to market-led products. For example, we will continue working with the main QKD systems manufacturers -ID Quantique and Toshiba - to demonstrate systems and their integration on our UK Quantum Network, for eventual deployment in commercial networks provided by operators including in the UK, BT.
4. Working with industry and commerce to promote commercialisation of technologies stimulated by Hub research ("tech transfer"). For example through demonstration, but also through consortia put together explicitly for the purpose of commercialisation or prototype development - either through private finance, or co-financed with the public sector. The Hub has played a leading part in recent IUK/ISCF competitions to this end, and will continue to do so.
5. Consultation and collaboration with industrial and commercial stakeholders new to QT who are ready to exploit the technology themselves, as well as in a position to lead or promote exploitation in their own sectors. Examples include Energy and Finance where even marginal improvements have disproportionate commercial benefits.
6. Identification of new areas of QT research with potentially very high impact for the UK - for example satellite quantum communications. We have been instrumental in bringing together public stake-holders (e.g. the UK Space Agency, RAL Space, InnovateUK/KTN), relevant UK research strengths (in terrestrial quantum communications) and commercial interests (Arqit, BT). This has resulted in momentum for research-led development of new UK industries with potentially global impact.
7. Promotion, demonstration and engagement, notably on Science/Innovation parks. These provide (often sector-specific) concentrations of industry and commerce, responsive to targeted approaches.
8. Active networking and training to produce skilled scientists through our own support for PhDs / PDRAs; working with the QT CDTs to support turning scientific interest into entrepreneurial endeavour and injection of both into companies and markets.
9. Further expand our extensive public engagement activities and continue the Quantum Ambassadors programme, for impact with the general public and in school education.
Our aim across all fronts will be to maximise impact by the most effective means. Our experience to date indicates that what works best depends upon multiple factors. We will therefore put together bespoke programmes determined by the specifics of the requirement and opportunity, and using the appropriate means selected from a wide array of options--from large events tailored to demonstrate value to focused sessions with leaders of particular industries; from media interviews and articles, to dynamic promotion via social media.
1. Regular consultation with our Hub Advisory Board, which will include industry leaders with extensive experience in development for market and effective translation of prototype systems into products.
2. Standards, plus active promotion of IP generation, protection and exploitation, directly or through licensing. We will encourage university spin-outs and pre-revenue start-ups. Examples of each from Phase 1 are the highly successful KETS Quantum Security Ltd (commercialisation of chip-based quantum communication technologies), and Arqit (commercialisation of satellite QKD).
3. Direct involvement of industry within the expanding Quantum Technologies (QT) sector to ensure effective translation of research-led systems to market-led products. For example, we will continue working with the main QKD systems manufacturers -ID Quantique and Toshiba - to demonstrate systems and their integration on our UK Quantum Network, for eventual deployment in commercial networks provided by operators including in the UK, BT.
4. Working with industry and commerce to promote commercialisation of technologies stimulated by Hub research ("tech transfer"). For example through demonstration, but also through consortia put together explicitly for the purpose of commercialisation or prototype development - either through private finance, or co-financed with the public sector. The Hub has played a leading part in recent IUK/ISCF competitions to this end, and will continue to do so.
5. Consultation and collaboration with industrial and commercial stakeholders new to QT who are ready to exploit the technology themselves, as well as in a position to lead or promote exploitation in their own sectors. Examples include Energy and Finance where even marginal improvements have disproportionate commercial benefits.
6. Identification of new areas of QT research with potentially very high impact for the UK - for example satellite quantum communications. We have been instrumental in bringing together public stake-holders (e.g. the UK Space Agency, RAL Space, InnovateUK/KTN), relevant UK research strengths (in terrestrial quantum communications) and commercial interests (Arqit, BT). This has resulted in momentum for research-led development of new UK industries with potentially global impact.
7. Promotion, demonstration and engagement, notably on Science/Innovation parks. These provide (often sector-specific) concentrations of industry and commerce, responsive to targeted approaches.
8. Active networking and training to produce skilled scientists through our own support for PhDs / PDRAs; working with the QT CDTs to support turning scientific interest into entrepreneurial endeavour and injection of both into companies and markets.
9. Further expand our extensive public engagement activities and continue the Quantum Ambassadors programme, for impact with the general public and in school education.
Our aim across all fronts will be to maximise impact by the most effective means. Our experience to date indicates that what works best depends upon multiple factors. We will therefore put together bespoke programmes determined by the specifics of the requirement and opportunity, and using the appropriate means selected from a wide array of options--from large events tailored to demonstrate value to focused sessions with leaders of particular industries; from media interviews and articles, to dynamic promotion via social media.
Organisations
- University of York (Lead Research Organisation)
- KETS Quantum Security Ltd (Project Partner)
- Fraunhofer UK Research (Project Partner)
- Teledyne e2v (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Arqit Limited (Project Partner)
- ID Quantique (Switzerland) (Project Partner)
- ADVA Optical Networking (Germany) (Project Partner)
- Chase Research Cryogenics (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Physical Laboratory (Project Partner)
- BT Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Huang Z
(2021)
Quantum Hypothesis Testing for Exoplanet Detection.
in Physical review letters
Vasil'ev P
(2021)
Quantum degeneracy and phase-space density in superradiant semiconductor heterostructures at room temperature
in Europhysics Letters
Malvetti E
(2021)
Quantum Circuits for Sparse Isometries
in Quantum
Bard D
(2022)
Quantum advantage on proof of work
in Array
| Description | Hub investigators Chunnilall, O'Neill, Rarity, Spiller, and Vick are all members of the Quantum Communications Task & Finish advisory Group, overseen by BEIS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Hub investigators Nejabati and Spiller are both members of the Advisory Group overseeing the Quantum Technologies for High-Value Sectors Road Mapping work commissioned by BEIS and carried out by commercial company PA Consulting. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Professor Spiller submitted evidence to the UK Quantum Strategy online consultation organised by BEIS (February-March 2022) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-quantum-strategy-call-for-evidence |
| Description | Professors Buller, Penty and Spiller were invited panelists to the "UK's strengths and weaknesses in quantum technologies research" specialist workshop, organised by BEIS to help determine the future UK quantum strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | AIRQKD |
| Amount | £5,791,335 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 45364 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | Airbus: Viable Satellite Free Space Optical Quantum Key Distribution Technologies (ViSatQT) (D. Oi, University of Southampton) |
| Amount | £104,706 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Airguide Photonics, Airguide Quantum Communications (R. Donaldson, Heriot Watt University - related to EP/P030181/1) |
| Amount | £65,212 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Assurance for quantum random number generators |
| Amount | £2,753,822 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 49229 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - University of York 2017 (Spiller T., "Northern Quantum Network") |
| Amount | £2,247,310 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R51181X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Hollow core fiber for quantum secured MEC interconnection (G. Kanellos, University of Bristol) |
| Amount | £36,302 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | Next Generation Satellite QKD - Creating a UK Sovereign Capability for Manufacturing Satellite QKD Payloads |
| Amount | £4,505,983 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 41172 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | QFoundry (Jon Heffernan, University of Sheffield) |
| Amount | £5,800,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry for New Physics |
| Amount | £608,642 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/T005920/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | ReFQ(JADE): Modular WCP Sources & RFI Protocols for Space-based QKD Demonstrations (University of Bristol, University of Southampton) |
| Amount | £388,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | Responsive Operations for Key Services (ROKS PAYLOAD FLIGHT MODEL - DISCOVERY PHASE, University of Bristol, University of Strathclyde) |
| Amount | £442,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Single Photon Imaging, Detection and Ranging (SPIDAR) (University of Glasgow, Heriot Watt University) |
| Amount | £5,720,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Towards a Federated Satellite Quantum Key Distribution System |
| Amount | £385,843 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Title | Infrared single-photon sensitivity in atomic layer deposited superconducting nanowires |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1146 |
| Title | Timing and Synchronisation for High-Loss Free-Space Quantum Communication with Hybrid de Bruijn Code |
| Description | These data are measured and simulated from the experimental setup described in the publication: "Timing and Synchronisation for High-Loss Free-Space Quantum Communication with Hybrid de Bruijn Code" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2n9e04k9mlpck2oy6mqp62bvs4/ |
| 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 |
| Title | SatQuMA (Satellite Quantum Modelling & Analysis Software) |
| Description | SatQuMA is a numerical toolkit that determines the finite key capacity in satellite-based quantum key distribution (SatQKD). It is being developed to provide modelling and analysis for SatQKD missions and is available to download on GitHub |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Applications of SatQuMA have enabled an estimate of key generation capacities for different system properties and optical ground station locations. This supported in the decision-making for where the UK Quantum Communications Hub OGS should be. The user interface (UI) for SatQuMA, though in its early stages, provides an easier way to interact with the code. This is expected to invite more collaborative efforts in interacting with SatQuMA, which will improve its development. A recent study (see below) showed it is possible to obtain improved finite secret keys for three different small-satellite-based QKD projects CQT-Sat, UK-QUARC-ROKS, and QEYSSat under typical very high loss conditions. Insights derived from SatQuMA can help guide experimental and engineering efforts aiming to develop QKD systems. Its open-source nature means it is possible to contribute to its development and we are actively looking for researchers across the Quantum Communications Hub and abroad for collaborative efforts to extend the development of SatQuMA. |
| URL | https://cnqo.phys.strath.ac.uk/research/quantum-information/satquma/ |
| Description | A. Fedrizzi, Experimental demonstration of multi-party conference key agreement, QCrypt, contributed talk, August 10-14 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub co-investigator Fedrizzi gave a contributed talk (Experimental demonstration of multi-party conference key agreement) at the QCrypt 2020 virtual conference, August 10-14 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://2020.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | A. Wonfor - invited talk ("QKD secured networks in the UK") presented at the Next Generation Networking, Multi-Service Networks workshop, Coseners House, Abingdon, UK, Jul. 07, 2022 . |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator A. Wonfor gave an invited talk ("QKD secured networks in the UK") at the Next Generation Networking, Multi-Service Networks workshop, Coseners House, Abingdon, UK, Jul. 07, 2022 . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://coseners.net/ |
| Description | Alfonson Tello gave a contributed talk (Time-bin quantum key distribution receiver designs for free-space channels.) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub PhD student Tello gave a contributed talk (Time-bin quantum key distribution receiver designs for free-space channels.) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30615&eventID=1255 |
| Description | Alia et al - poster presentation "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | O. Alia, A. Schreier, R. Wang, S. Bahrani, R. Singh, G. Faulkner, J. Rarity, D. O'Brien, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu5.67. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ECEOC-2022-Tu5.67 |
| Description | Andersson - invited talk at a workshop on Atom-based quantum photonics, Durham, 13-15 July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andersson - invited talk at a workshop on Atom-based quantum photonics, Durham, 13-15 July 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Andersson - invited tutorial on "Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution" at the Review Meeting for the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, 10-12 May 2022, Chalmers University, Gothenburg |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andersson - invited tutorial on "Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution" at the Review Meeting for the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, 10-12 May 2022, Chalmers University, Gothenburg |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Andersson E - talk on quantum communication at a virtual "teach-in" for UK regulators on 7 Nov, arranged by the QCS Hub and the NQCC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andersson E - talk on quantum communication at a virtual "teach-in" for UK regulators on 7 Nov, arranged by the QCS Hub and the NQCC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Andy Schreier - Contributed talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at the Telecommunications, Optics & Photonics (TOP) Conference, London, February 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andy Schreier gave a contributed talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at the 2022 Telecommunications, Optics & Photonics (TOP) Conference in London (15 February 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/timetable/ |
| Description | Anthony Vaquero-Stainer gave a contributed talk (Concurrent transmission of time and QKD signals over a single optical fibre) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/20) |
| 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 Vaquero-Stainer gave a contributed talk (Concurrent transmission of time and QKD signals over a single optical fibre) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/20) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30615&eventID=1255 |
| Description | Arabul E - Contributed talk "Resilient, Quantum-Secured, Time Deterministic and Programmable Network Interface Card for 5G RAN" [Presentation]. In Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) Conference. February 2022. London, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | E. Arabul - contributed talk "Resilient, Quantum-Secured, Time Deterministic and Programmable Network Interface Card for 5G RAN" [Presentation]. In Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) Conference. February 2022. London, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/timetable-2022/ |
| Description | Arabul et al - Contributed talk "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | E. Arabul, R. D. Oliveira, R. Wang, O. Alia, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu3B.2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ECEOC-2022-Tu3B.2 |
| Description | Cambridge, York and Bristol successfully organised the 2nd workshop on quantum networks (QNetworks 2022) held in Cambridge on 11 and 12 April 2022 |
| 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 | Cambridge and Bristol successfully organised the 2nd workshop on quantum networks held in Cambridge on 11 and 12 April 2022. It was attended by about 100 in person attendees with another 150 attending online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?site=research-community |
| Description | Campbell, D et al. - Poster presentation (Acceleration of Post Quantum Digital Signature Scheme CRYSTALS-Dilithium on reconfigurable hardware), International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belfast (Aug-Sept 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Campbell, D., Khalid, A., Rafferty, C., & O'Neill, M. (2022). Poster presentation: Acceleration of Post Quantum Digital Signature Scheme CRYSTALS-Dilithium on reconfigurable hardware. Poster session presented at International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belfast (29 August - 2 September 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.fpl.org/ |
| Description | Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (June 20-21) Dogecoin v Schrodinger's cat: What the advent of quantum computing means for the cryptocurrency economy. Kent Tech R&D Conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (June 20-21) Dogecoin v Schrodinger's cat: What the advent of quantum computing means for the cryptocurrency economy. Kent Tech R&D Conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.kent.ac.uk/events/event/54151/kent-technology-fair |
| Description | Chunnilall - invited presentation "Assessment of quantum random number generators" at the WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Photonic Quantum Technologies" 17-19 March, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chunnilall - invited presentation "Assessment of quantum random number generators" at the WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Photonic Quantum Technologies" 17-19 March, Germany |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Chunnilall C - Contributed talk contributed talk on the 'EMN-Q' at the EURAMET session "EURAMET metrology - facing and solving digital challenges" at the IMEKO TC6 International Conference on Digital Transformation, 19 Sep 2022 | Berlin and online. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Chunnilall gave a contributed talk on the 'EMN-Q' at the EURAMET session "EURAMET metrology - facing and solving digital challenges" at the IMEKO TC6 International Conference on Digital Transformation, 19 Sep 2022 | Berlin and online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Chunnilall C - contributed talk ( "Standardised measures for security assurance of quantum photonic hardware - QKD & QRNGs") at Photon 2022 (Nottingham, Sep 2022) |
| 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 presentation in the industry technology programme at Photon 2022 (Nottingham, Sep 2022) "Standardised measures for security assurance of quantum photonic hardware - QKD & QRNGs" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.photon.org.uk/ |
| Description | Chunnilall C - contributed talk on 'Metrology for quantum photonics' at the Workshop "Metrology: the present and the future", 21 Nov 2022 | Lisbon and online. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Chunnilall gave a contributed talk on 'Metrology for quantum photonics' at the Workshop "Metrology: the present and the future", 21 Nov 2022 | Lisbon and online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Chunnilall C a poster ("Assessment of device-dependent quantum random number generators") at SPW2022 (Seoul, Nov 2022) |
| 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 a poster ("Assessment of device-dependent quantum random number generators") at SPW2022 (Seoul, Nov 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://platform.qureca.com/event/single-photon-workshop-spw-2022/ |
| Description | Chunnilall C participated in the panel session on the 'Evolution of Standards for QKD and QRNGs' at the Inside Quantum Technology Fall 2021 conference, 1-4 Nov 2021 |
| 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 participated in the panel session on the 'Evolution of Standards for QKD and QRNGs' at the Inside Quantum Technology Fall 2021 conference, 1-4 Nov 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clark et al. - Contributed talk (Towards a Fully Connected Many-User Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network Within Deployed Telecommunications Fibre-Optic Infrastructure) at CLEO 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | M. J. Clark et al., "Towards a Fully Connected Many-User Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network Within Deployed Telecommunications Fibre-Optic Infrastructure," 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9891083 |
| Description | Colbeck - public lecture "From spooky quantum phenomena to 'impossible' new technologies" at York Talks 2022 held virtually 12th January 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colbeck - public lecture "From spooky quantum phenomena to 'impossible' new technologies" at York Talks 2022 held virtually 12th January 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/research/events/yorktalks/2022/ |
| Description | Colbeck R - invited tutorial on device-independent QKD at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colbeck R - invited tutorial on device-independent QKD at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Contributed presentation (Kent A; Lowndes D; Pitalúa-GarcÃa D; Rarity J): Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories and experimental tests, 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 | Kent et al. gave an online presentation (Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories and experimental tests) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2021-08-27 |
| Description | Contributed presentation (Sidhu JS; Brougham T; McArthur D; Pousa RG; Oi DKL): Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution, 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 | Sidhu (et al.) gave an online presentation (Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference (23-27 August) which took place virtually |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2021-08-27 |
| Description | Contributed talk (Alia O, Tessinari RS, Hugues-Salas E, Kanellos GT, Nejabati R and Simeonidou D): Wavelength Resources Management and Switching of Active Entanglement Distribution Circuits in Optical Networks, OFC 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alia et al. gave a contributed talk (Wavelength Resources Management and Switching of Active Entanglement Distribution Circuits in Optical Networks) at the 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) (p.1-3) [online] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9489674 |
| Description | Contributed talk (Alia O; Stange Tessinari R; Bradley T; Sakr H; Harrington K; Hayes J; Chen Y; Petropoulos P; Kanellos G; Richardson D; Poletti F; Najebati R; Simeonidou D): Coexistence of a Quantum QKD Channel and 4×100 Gbps Classical Channels in Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Hollow Core Fibre, 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 | Alia et al. gave a contributed talk (Coexistence of a Quantum QKD Channel and 4×100 Gbps Classical Channels in Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Hollow Core Fibre) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2021-08-27 |
| Description | Contributed talk (Ho J; Pickston A; Graffitti F; Grasselli F; Morrison CL; Proietti M ; Ulibarrena A; Fedrizzi A): Quantum conference key agreement using photonic graph state, 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 | Ho et al. gave a contributed talk (Quantum conference key agreement using photonic graph state) 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/contributed3a/ |
| Description | Contributed talk (Kumar R; Mazzoncini F; Qin H; Alléaume R): QKD Attack Rating: Prioritizing is the key to Practical Security, 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 | Kumar et al. gave a contributed talk (QKD Attack Rating: Prioritizing is the key to Practical Security) 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/contributed2a/ |
| Description | Contributed talk (Woodward R I, Lo Y S, Pittaluga M, Minder M, Paraïso T K, Lucamarini M, Yuan Z L & Shields A J): Simplifying Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Directly Modulated Laser Sources, OFC 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Woodward et al. gave a contributed talk (Simplifying Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Directly Modulated Laser Sources) at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021, (pp. 1-3), 6-10 June 2021 [online] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9489752 |
| Description | Contributed talk (Woodward RI, Dynes JF, Wright P, White C, Parker RC, Wonfor A, Yuan ZL, Lord A, Shields AJ): Quantum Key Secured Communications Field Trial for Industry 4.0, OFC 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Woodward et al. gave a contributed talk (Quantum Key Secured Communications Field Trial for Industry 4.0) at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021, (pp. 1-3.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9489683 |
| Description | Contributed talk - (Sidhu J.S., Izumi S., Neergaard-Nielsen J.S., Lupo C., Andersen U.L.): Quantum received for phase-shift keying at single photon level, AQIS 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jasminder Sidhu et al. gave a contributed talk (online - Quantum received for phase-shift keying at single photon level) at the 21th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2021), 1-4 September 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://aqis-conf.org/2021/ |
| Description | Contributed talk - Clark (Polarisation Based Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networking) at Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics conference, London, February 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub PhD student Marcus Clark gave a contributed talk (Polarisation Based Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networking) at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics conference, London, February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/conference-progamme-2023/conference-programme/ |
| Description | Contributed talk - Donaldson R. (Free-space quantum communications) at the OPTICSMEET21 |
| 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 gave a contributed talk (Free-space quantum communications) at the OPTICSMEET2021 conference, Nice, France (1-3 November 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.albedomeetings.com/2021/opticsmeet |
| Description | Contributed talk - E. Arabul, R. D. Oliveira, R. Wang, O. Alia, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor,", ECOC 2022, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | E. Arabul, R. D. Oliveira, R. Wang, O. Alia, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu3B.2. Contributed talk at European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2022, Basel Switzerland, 18-22 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ECEOC-2022-Tu3B.2 |
| Description | Contributed talk - Kok P (In Memoriam Jonathan P Dowling: Photonic quantum data locking*), APS 2021 |
| 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 a contributed talk at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, May 31-June 4 2021; Virtual; [Session Q04: Jon Dowling Memorial Session, 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Thursday, June 3, 2021] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DAMOP21/Session/Q04.2 |
| Description | Daniel Oi gave a short presentation on Strathclyde/UK space quantum communications research as part of the Waterloo-Strathclyde Virtual Research Colloquium on Quantum Technologies, 12/11/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigators Daniel Oi gave a short presentation on Strathclyde/UK space quantum communications research as part of the Waterloo-Strathclyde Virtual Research Colloquium on Quantum Technologies, 12/11/2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Daniel Oi gave a talk on the (partially) Hub sponsored, ROKS CubeSat project at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore (30/10/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Daniel Oi gave a talk on the (partially) Hub sponsored, ROKS CubeSat project at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore (30/10/2020). Some 50 people attended the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/7sPkKEVXbd4 |
| Description | Daniel Oi gave an invited presentation at the Curtin University (Australia) as part of the IEEE Computer Society Seminar Series (9/7/2020, online) on "Space, Quantum Technologies, and CubeSats" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub Co-Investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited presentation at the Curtin University (Australia) as part of the IEEE Computer Society Seminar Series (9/7/2020, online) on "Space, Quantum Technologies, and CubeSats" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqdEH4QEfI&t=1s |
| Description | David Lowndes presented a contributed talk (Low cost, short range quantum key distribution) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/2020) |
| 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 Lowndes presented a contributed talk (Low cost, short range quantum key distribution) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30549&eventID=1255 |
| Description | Director Spiller gave an invited outreach webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the Manchester and District branch of the IoP (15/12/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Director Spiller gave an invited outreach webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the Manchester and District branch of the IoP (15/12/2020). The webinar was live and followed by a Q&A session. The feedback was very positive and there were lots more questions forwarded to Spiller after the event by the organisers, which were all responded to and forwarded to the relevant delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7266096614890733327 |
| Description | Director Spiller gave an invited webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the IET Quantum Engineering Technical Network (10/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Director Spiller gave an invited webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the IET Quantum Engineering Technical Network (10/11/2020). The event was delivered jointly with Jonathan Legh-Smith representing Hub partner BT and was followed by a Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet? |
| Description | Director Spiller took part in an online discussion panel on quantum technologies as part of the virtual Let's Get Physical 2020 conference organised by the Tommy Flowers Institute (15/10/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Director Spiller took part in an online discussion panel on quantum technologies as part of the virtual Let's Get Physical 2020 conference organised by the Tommy Flowers Institute (15/10/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://tommyflowersnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/2020-autumn-conference-lets-get.html |
| Description | Director Spiller took part in an online international discussion panel as part of the pre-recorded YouTube screening of the 10 shortlisted films from the 2020 Quantum Shorts competition (25/02/2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Director Spiller took part in an online discussion panel as part of the pre-recorded YouTube screening of the 10 shortlisted films from the 2020 Quantum Shorts competition (25/02/2021). The event was organised by the Hub in collaboration with the competition organisers Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/screening-of-quantum-shorts-festival-finalists/?return=https%3... |
| Description | Donaldon - public engagement talk ('Will I need a Light License?) at Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (August 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Ross Donaldson have a public engagement talk at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas - 'Will I need a Light License?':Audience total 50 over 2 shows in August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://edinburghfestival.datathistle.com/event/1893220-the-cabaret-of-dangerous-ideas-light-licence... |
| Description | Elliott Hastings presented a poster (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Elliott Hastings presented a poster (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, July 25-28). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work. At World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, July 25-28). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work. At World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://american-cse.org/index.html/ |
| Description | Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, June 8-10). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work . At Quantum Latino 2022 Conference. Mexico. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, June 8-10). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work . At Quantum Latino 2022 Conference. Mexico. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://quantum-latino.com/ |
| Description | Fedrizzi A - talk on the work of the Hub at Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Alessandro Fedrizzi gave a talk on the work of the Hub at Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/events/quantum-technologies-for-fundamental-physics-engagement-event/ |
| Description | Fox M - talk on the work of the Hub at the Quantum Materials Network meeting, January 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Mark Fox gave a talk on the work of the Hub at the Quantum Materials Network meeting, January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/materials-for-quantum-network-launches-in-manchester/ |
| Description | Friederike Jöhlinger et. al presented a poster (Trojan Horse Attack on Chip-Scale Quantum Key Distribution) at the 2020 online QCrypt conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Friederike Jöhlinger et. al presented a poster (Trojan Horse Attack on Chip-Scale Quantum Key Distribution) at the 2020 online QCrypt conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/ |
| Description | George Kanellos presented novel use cases for quantum networks beyond QKD in the Quantum Technologies Use-Cases session of the European Quantum Week, organized by the European Quantum Flagship with the collaboration of the European Commission (5/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | George Kanellos presented novel use cases for quantum networks beyond QKD in the Quantum Technologies Use-Cases session of the European Quantum Week, organized by the European Quantum Flagship with the collaboration of the European Commission (5/11/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://eqw.qt.eu/speakers/thursday/#george-kanellos |
| Description | Ghalaii M - poster presentation (Composable end-to-end security of Gaussian quantum networks with untrusted relays) at Quantum Information 2022, Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria (26.6 - 1.7.2022) |
| 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 Masoud Ghalaii gave a poster presentation (poster presentation (Composable end-to-end security of Gaussian quantum networks with untrusted relays) at Quantum Information 2022, Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria (26.6 - 1.7.2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/seefeld2022/ |
| Description | Gundogan M et al. - Poster presentation (Space-borne quantum memories for global quantum networking) at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mustafa Gundogan ; Jasminder Sidhu ; Victoria Henderson ; Luca Mazzarella ; Janik Wolters ; Daniel Kl Oi ; Markus Krutzik, poster presentation ('Space-borne quantum memories for global quantum networking') at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Hastings E. gave a poster presentation (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the PHOTON 2020 conference (1/9/2020 - 4/9/2020, online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hastings E. gave a poster presentation (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the PHOTON 2020 conference (1/9/2020 - 4/9/2020, online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Hastings et al - Contributed talk (Field Demonstration of Systems Towards CubeSat Quantum Key Distribution). In 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (pp. 1-2). IEEE. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hastings, E., Zhang, P., Sagar, J., Stefko, M., Oi, D. K., Rarity, J., & Joshi, S. K. (2022, May). Contributed talk (Field Demonstration of Systems Towards CubeSat Quantum Key Distribution) at CLEO 2022 conference. In 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (pp. 1-2). IEEE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9891506/references#references |
| Description | Hub PDRA Joshi S.K. gave a presentation on Quantum Communication with CubeSats at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub PDRA Joshi S.K. gave a presentation on Quantum Communication with CubeSats at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-... |
| Description | Hub PDRA Kumar R. gave a contributed talk on quantum communications technologies as part of the BT/UCL Quantum Comms Focus Week (15-19/02/2021) organised by the UCL Quantum CDT. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Kumar R. gave a contributed talk on quantum communications technologies as part of the BT/UCL Quantum Comms Focus Week (15-19/02/2021) organised by the UCL Quantum CDT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/quantum/news/2021/feb/bt-and-ucl-quantum-comms-focus-webinars-0 |
| Description | Hub PDRA Wonfor A. gave a talk on quantum networks during the BT/UCL Quantum Communications Focus Week (online, 15-19/02/2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hub PDRA Wonfor A. gave a talk on quantum networks during the BT/UCL Quantum Communications Focus Week (online, 15-19/02/2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/quantum/news/2021/feb/bt-and-ucl-quantum-comms-focus-webinars-0 |
| Description | Hub PDRAs Guo K. and Hebdige T. gave a presentation on Quantum Random Number Generators at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/20) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub PDRAs Guo K. and Hebdige T. gave a presentation on Quantum Random Number Generators at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/20) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-... |
| Description | Hub PDRAs Schreier A. and Lowndes D. gave a talk on Consumer QKD at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub PDRAs Schreier A. and Lowndes D. gave a talk on Consumer QKD at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-... |
| Description | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a public engagement talk (the David Elder Lecture) at the, Glasgow Science Centre, 22nd February 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a public engagement talk (the David Elder Lecture) at the, Glasgow Science Centre, 22nd February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/discover/adult-events/david-elder-lectures |
| Description | Hub investigators (incl. Spiller T.) have contributed to the Quantum Technologies report by the US Government Accountability Office (May 2020) |
| 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 | Hub investigators have contributed to the Quantum Technologies report by the US Government Accountability Office (May 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-527SP |
| Description | Hub investigators and industry partners coordinated the UK quantum community response to the 2020 Quantum Security Technologies NCSC White Paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigators and industry partners coordinated the UK quantum community response to the 2020 Quantum Security Technologies NCSC White Paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/community-response-to-the-ncsc-2020-quantum-security-technologi... |
| Description | Hub investigators have contributed to the 'Future Horizons for Photonics Research 2030 and beyond' report (Sept. 2020) published by The Photonics Leadership Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Photonics and Quantum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Photonics Leadership Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Photonics and Quantum have released a report on the 'Future Horizons for Photonics Research 2030 and beyond' which aims to outline what will be possible in photonics in the next decade and beyond, and the substantial opportunities for the photonics industry in the UK. Numerous Quantum Communications Hub investigators and advisory board members were among the 26 leading photonics academics in the UK that were invited to participate in the horizon scanning exercise, which required them to consider what the focus of photonics research will be, a decade and more from now. The report defines 70 research topics that will be the focus of photonics research, including established research topics and new research fields, organised into four broad categories: materials, optical and physical phenomenon, future manufacturing processes and devices and systems. Also identified within the report are the nine 'great challenges' representing major societal trends and concerns which will influence and motivate future photonics innovation: data, health and ageing, physical pollution, mobility and transport, climate change, defence and security, economic patriotism, scale and food production photon. The report recognises that the photonics industry is well established and is fundamental to many advanced technologies and industries, however, it also highlights that photonics innovation needs to undergo a 'step change' in order to combat the challenges indentified to be facing photonics in the future. Finally, the report makes seven recommendations which include researchers, research agencies, funding agencies, policy makers and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Directors taking action in order to enable the identified topics to become research activity within the UK and for the potential benefits of photonics to be realised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Future-Horizons-for-Photonics-Research_PL... |
| Description | Hub investigators have organised jointly with NCSC a 2-day workshop on Quantum Communications and Cyber Security for industrial partners of the Hub and national quantum technologies programme stakeholders from BEIS, NPL, Satellite Catapult etc. (24/11 & 08/12/20) |
| 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 | Hub investigators have organised jointly with NCSC a 2-day workshop on Quantum Communications and Cyber Security for industrial partners of the Hub and national quantum technologies programme stakeholders from BEIS, NPL, Satellite Catapult etc. (24/11 & 08/12/20). This is part of an initiative for closer collaboration between the quantum and classic cryptography communities. A report will follow in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Hub investigators participated with many demos in the 2020 online 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The annual UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, organised by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and Innovate UK, took place virtually for the first time, on Friday 6 November 2020. The event, which is usually held in London and attended by over 700 people from industry, government and media, was held online with a record 1200 delegates registered to attend. The virtual nature of the event meant that the expertise, capabilities and advances of quantum technologies in the UK and its real-world impact, along with the progress made so far in the second phase of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, could be shared with a global audience. The Quantum Communications Hub had three virtual stands at the Showcase and two virtual booths, through which, investigators gave technical demonstrations of our work, including some of our core technologies and technologies created through funded collaborations and partnerships. Across the two booths, the Hub showcased five demonstrations including: Consumer Quantum Key Distribution; Quantum Networking; Quantum Random Number Generators; Satellite QKD Ground-Based Receivers; and Quantum Communication with CubeSats. The Hub's virtual stands, which include a plethora of resources including leaflets and videos, are still available on the exhibitor section of the event website and will remain there for three months. Delegates were able to book one-to-one meetings with Hub colleagues to discuss our technologies and potential collaborations further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/quantum-communications-hub-exhibits-at-first-ever-virtual-uk-na... |
| Description | Hub organised workshop on Next Generation Quantum Protocols beyond QKD (September 2022, online) |
| 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 | Hub investigators Erika Andersson, Adrian Kent and Damián Pitalúa-García gave talks in the Next Generation Quan-tum Protocols Workshop that took place online on the 13th of September and was organised by the Hub with the National Cyber Security Centre. Erika gave the talks "Quantum Message Authentication" and "Quantum Fingerprinting". Adrian gave the talks "Quan-tum Money and Secure Tokens on Relativistic Networks" and "Quantum Position Authentication". Damián gave the talk "Quantum Money and Secure Tokens: Implementations and Trade-Offs". The aim of the workshop was to initiate a dialogue between the quantum cryptography and classical cryptography communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Hub researcher Joshi SK wrote a piece in online magazine The Conversation highlighting Hub's work on an entanglement-based quantum network (2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Hub researcher Joshi SK wrote a piece in online magazine The Conversation highlighting Hub's work on an 8-user, entanglement-based quantum network and based on this paper: Joshi et al., "A trusted node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network." Science Advances 6, no. 36 (2020): eaba0959 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/our-quantum-internet-breakthrough-could-help-make-hacking-a-thing-of-the... |
| Description | Hub researchers Aktas D. et al. gave a presentation on Quantum Networking at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub researchers Aktas D. et al. gave a presentation on Quantum Networking at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-... |
| Description | Hub researchers and PhD students took part in a Catalyst Online Training workshop, delivered by QTEC (University of Bristol) and focused on commercialisation of quantum technologies (May 2020) |
| 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 | Hub researchers and PhD students took part in a Catalyst Online Training workshop, delivered by QTEC (University of Bristol) and focused on commercialisation of quantum technologies (May 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Igor Konieczniak gave a poster presentation (Increasing loss-budget of a free-space CVQKD system) at the 2020 QCrypt virtual international conference (13/08/2020) |
| 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 Koniczniak gave a poster presentation (Increasing loss-budget of a free-space CVQKD system) at the 2020 virtual QCrypt international conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/ |
| Description | Invited public lecture - Colbeck R (From spooky quantum phenomena to impossible quantum technologies), York Talks, 2022 |
| 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 lecture on "From spooky quantum phenomena to impossible quantum technologies" as part of the University of York's York Talks series of presentations, 12 January 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nid2h0o7tlE |
| Description | Invited talk - Nejabati R.: "Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, OCT 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator R. Nejabati gave an invited talk ("Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing") at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, OCT 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk - R. Nejabati ("Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing") Virginia Tech, USA, OCT 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator R. Nejabati gave an invited talk ("Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing") at Virginia Tech, USA, OCT 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Ittoop Puthoor gave a poster presentation (Unambiguous elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication) at the 2020 virtual QCrypt international conference (13/08/20) |
| 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 have a poster presentation (Unambiguous elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication) at the 2020 virtual QCrypt international conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/ |
| Description | J. Sidhu - Contributed talk (Practical quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) as part of the Superconducting Amplifiers and Detectors session at APS Conference, March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Practical quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) as part of the Superconducting Amplifiers and Detectors session at the APS March Meeting 2022 (online, 17 March 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/T38.8 |
| Description | Jasminder Sidhu - online seminar (Practical advances in quantum information theory) for MIT, 4 February 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jasminder Sidhu gave an online MIT seminar with the title "Practical advances in quantum information theory" for a group of fellow quantum researchers at MIT (04/02/2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Joshi S.K - Invited public lecture (Quantum Communications Networks) at the IET Coventry and Warwickshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Siddarth Joshi gave an invited public lecture on quantum communications networks at the IET Coventry and Warwickshire branch [online - 14 October 2021). There were lots of questions afterwards and the feedback was highly positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=7adda7&trk=c-45c266 |
| Description | Joshi SK gave a presentation on quantum communications at QTech 2020 - (02 - 04 November 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joshi SK gave a presentation on quantum communications at QTech 2020 - (02 - 04 November 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://qtech2020.exordo.com/programme/presentation/305 |
| Description | Ke Guo ; Thomas Hebdige ; Thomas Cope ; Roger Colbeck ; Christopher Chunnilall - poster presentation (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics), QCrypt 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ke Guo ; Thomas Hebdige ; Thomas Cope ; Roger Colbeck ; Christopher Chunnilall - poster presentation (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics), QCrypt 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Ke Guo presented a contributed talk (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (04/09/2020) |
| 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 Ke Guo presented a contributed talk (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (04/09/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30393&eventID=1255 |
| Description | Kent - invited talk "Quantum Foundations and Quantum Technology" to a group of Dutch business and thought leaders, organised by the Comenius Foundation, in March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Kent - invited talk "Quantum Foundations and Quantum Technology" to a group of Dutch business and thought leaders, organised by the Comenius Foundation, in March 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Kent - public engagement lecture "The Closeting of Secrets", as part of the 2023 Darwin College Lecture Series, Cambridge (and online) January 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kent - public engagement lecture "The Closeting of Secrets", as part of the 2023 Darwin College Lecture Series, Cambridge (and online) January 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/darwin-college-lecture-series |
| Description | Khalid - invited talk at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Secure and Efficient Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Software on the April 10 to April 13, 2023 at Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik in Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ayesha Khalid invited as a speaker at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Secure and Efficient Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Software on the April 10 to April 13, 2023 at Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik in Germany |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Khalid et al - Experimental Integration of QKD and Post-Quantum Cryptography in a Hybrid Quantum-Safe Cryptosystem. Contributed talk at the 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography workshop at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis from 13-15 February 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty and Maire O'Neill: Muckle++: Experimental Integration of QKD and Post-Quantum Cryptography in a Hybrid Quantum-Safe Cryptosystem. Contributed talk at the 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography workshop at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis from 13-15 February 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.etsi.org/events/2117-2023-02-9th-etsi-iqc-quantum-safe-cryptography-workshop |
| Description | Khalid et al - Tutorial ("Efficient Cryptography on Reconfigurable Hardware") at the 32nd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), August '22, Belfast, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A Khalid, E. Kavun, F. Regazzoni, gave a Tutorial "Efficient Cryptography on Reconfigurable Hardware" in the 32nd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), August '22, Belfast, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.fpl.org/ |
| Description | Konieczniak I. (with Kumar R. & Spiller T.), Poster Presentation (Building A Two-mode Squeezed Vacuum Source for Quantum Communications) at 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 | Igor Konieczniak gave an online poster presentation (Building A Two-mode Squeezed Vacuum Source for Quantum Communications) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Kumar R. et al., Poster presentation (" QKD attack rating: prioritizing is the key to practical security") at the SPIE Quantum Technologies 2022 international conference, Strasbourg, France, 3-7 April 2022 |
| 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., Mazzoncini F., Qin H., and Alléaume R. prepared a poster on "QKD attack rating: prioritizing is the key to practical security" which was presented buy Mazzoncini at the SPIE Quantum Technologies 2022 in Strasbourg, France, on 3-7 April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/EPE/conferencedetails/quantum-technologies?SSO=1 |
| Description | Kumar R. gave a presentation on "Satellite QKD Ground-Based Receivers" during the 2020 virtual international National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub PDRA Rupesh Kumar gave a presentation on "Satellite QKD Ground-Based Receivers" during the 2020 virtual international National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-... |
| Description | Morozov D - contributed talk (Development of mid-infrared arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors) at Workshop on low temperature electronics, WOLTE15, Matera Italy 7/6/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | D Morozov (& RH Hadfield) gave a contributed talk (Development of mid-infrared arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors) at Workshop on low temperature electronics, WOLTE15, Matera Italy 7/6/22 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Mortzou G - invited outreach talk on Quantum City initiative during the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub project manager gave a talk on the Quantum City public engagement initiative during the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/events/quantum-technologies-for-fundamental-physics-engagement-event/ |
| Description | Naomi Solomons, poster presentation at Q-Turn 2020 (23/11/2020- 27/11/2020) (Virtual): Poster P1.7 "Scalable authentication in a quantum network". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Naomi Solomons, poster presentation at Q-Turn 2020 (23/11/2020- 27/11/2020) (Virtual): Poster P1.7 "Scalable authentication in a quantum network". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mgi8_zYgQhrCkVSEDadwZ0mRNqYiJtmN/view |
| Description | Nejabati R - contributed talk "Quantum Data centre :, Inside Quantum Technology The Hague conference, Feb 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | R. Nejabati gave a contribute talk "Quantum Data centre :, Inside Quantum Technology The Hague conference, Feb 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://quantum-internet.team/event/inside-quantum-technology-iqt-2022/ |
| Description | Nejabati R. - contributed talk (Dynamic and autonomous quantum entanglement network) at the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Reza Nejabati talked about the work of the Hub on "Dynamic and autonomous quantum entanglement network" during the QNetworks 2022 international workshop which took place at Cambridge on 11-12 April 2022 as a hybrid event (in person and with virtual participants). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantum... |
| Description | Nejabati has organised a "Security Solutions Enabled by Physics in Fiber" workshop at the ACP 2020 conference (Oct. 2020, Beijing, 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 | Nejabati has organised a "Security Solutions Enabled by Physics in Fiber" workshop at the ACP 2020 conference (Oct. 2020, Beijing, China) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.acpconf.org/Home/Details?M_Id=Meeting-20200421-MBL2HU4S&N_Id=News-20200617-LX9YXIWO#3 |
| Description | O'Connor et al - contributed talk ( 'Better Security Estimates for Approximate, IoT-Friendly R-LWE Cryptosystems') at the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS) 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ruth O'Connor, Ayesha Khalid, Maire O'Neill, Weiqiang Liu, 'Better Security Estimates for Approximate, IoT-Friendly R-LWE Cryptosystems'. The IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS) 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.apccas2022.org/ |
| Description | O. Alia et al. poster presentation ("Wavelengths assignment of entangled photons pairs for quantum networks") at the Quantum 2020 Virtual Conference. October 2020. Poster Reference No. 31136. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | O. Alia et al (E. Hugues-Salas, R. Stange Tessinari, R. Wang, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati and D.Simeonidou) gave a poster pressentation ("Wavelengths assignment of entangled photons pairs for quantum networks") at the Quantum 2020 Virtual Conference. October 2020. Poster Reference No. 31136. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Oi - invited departmental seminar at Warwick University on Space Quantum Science and Technology, 20th May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oi - invited departmental seminar at Warwick University on Space Quantum Science and Technology, 20th May 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oi D - Airbus Briefing on Space Quantum Internet (9 February 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a briefing on Space Quantum Internet for company Airbus (9 February 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oi D - Internal Strathclyde Briefing to the Space Strategy Cluster on Space Quantum Technologies (6 April 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi participated in an internal University of Strathclyde briefing to the Space Strategy Cluster on Space Quantum Technologies (6 April 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oi D - invited talk ('How to fast-track the quantum internet') at the Italian Space Agency meeting (Matera, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited talk ('How to fast-track the quantum internet') at the Italian Space Agency meeting (Matera, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oi D - Contributed talk ('Precision bounds on simultaneous quantum estimation theory') at Institute of Physics Singapore Meeting (Singapore) September 28-30 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contributed talk at Institute of Physics Singapore Meeting (Singapore) September 28-30 2022, 'Precision bounds on simultaneous quantum estimation theory' (talk) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ipsmeeting.org/ |
| Description | Oi D - Contributed talk (Quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at low powers ) at American Physical Society March Meeting (Chicago, USA) March 14-18 2022, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contributed talk (Quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at low powers ) at American Physical Society March Meeting (Chicago, USA) March 14-18 2022, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.aps.org/meetings/meeting.cfm?name=MAR22 |
| Description | Oi D - contributed talk (Key generation analysis for satellite quantum key distribution) at the SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contributed talk (Key generation analysis for satellite quantum key distribution) at the SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://optics.org/events/2021/909 |
| Description | Oi D - contributed talk (Tight bounds on the simultaneous estimation of incompatible parameters) at the Quantum Optics X (Torún, Poland) August 30 - September 3 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Oi gave a contributed talk (Tight bounds on the simultaneous estimation of incompatible parameters) at the Quantum Optics X (Torún, Poland) August 30 - September 3 2021, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://quantumoptics.faj.org.pl |
| Description | Oi D - presentation to the Washington DC Quantum Computing Meetup, 28th August 2022 on the Space Quantum Internet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Danie Oi gave a presentation to the Washington DC Quantum Computing Meetup, 28th August 2022 on the Space Quantum Internet |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oi D et al - poster presentation (Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution) at Pasadena, USA March 7-11 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oi D et al. gave a poster presentation (Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution) at Pasadena, USA March 7-11 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://web.cvent.com/event/8adf8248-432b-499c-91e2-63b83ba3f69e/summary |
| Description | Oi D. - Contributed talk ('Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD') at QTX-6 conference for quantum technologies on small satellites (Singapore) September 27-27 2022, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contibuted talk 'Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD' at QTX-6 conference for quantum technologies on small satellites (Singapore) September 27-27 2022, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://qtx.quantumlah.org/ |
| Description | Oi D. - Invited talk ('Quantum networks for sensing, communication, and computation' ) at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) November 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited talk ('Quantum networks for sensing, communication, and computation' ) at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oi D. - invited seminar ( 'Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD") at Centre for Quantum Technologies International Seminar Series (Singapore) September 2022,. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited seminar ( 'Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD") at Centre for Quantum Technologies International Seminar Series (Singapore) September 2022,. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oliveira et al - Contributed talk "Demonstration of a Resilient and Quantum-Secured Time-Shared Optical Network with Multi-Level Programmability," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | R. D. Oliveira, E. Arabul, R. Wang, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati and D. Simeonidou, "Demonstration of a Resilient and Quantum-Secured Time-Shared Optical Network with Multi-Level Programmability," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-3. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748318 |
| Description | Oral presentation by Damián Pitalúa-GarcÃa, ("Fichas cuánticas sin memorias cuánticas: hacia una demostración experimental". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Virtual presentation delivered to the Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, September 30, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García, ("Fichas cuánticas sin memorias cuánticas: hacia una demostración experimental". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Virtual presentation delivered to the Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, September 30, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Papanastasiou P - contributed talk: "Continuous-variables quantum key distribution in a multi-way setting", SPIE Photonics for Quantum 2022, 6-9 June 2022, Rochester, NY, United States |
| 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 P. Papanastasiou gave a contributed talk: "Continuous-variables quantum key distribution in a multi-way setting", SPIE Photonics for Quantum 2022, 6-9 June 2022, Rochester, NY, United States |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Participation in New Scientist Live North science festival, Manchester, 11-14 March 2022 |
| 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 | The Quantum Communications Hub organised and participated in the Quantum City exhibition stand at the first ever New Scientist Live North science festival outreach event in Manchester (11-14 March 2022). Alongside partners NPL and the University of Nottingham, Hub researchers from the University of Sheffield took part showcasing three exhibits explaining how light is used in quantum mechanics to carry secure information. Friday was a School only day and the Hub team engaged with 100s of school children. In total more than 2000 people visited the Quantum City stand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/quantum-city-exhibits-at-new-scientist-live-manchester/?return=... |
| Description | Participation in York Festival of Ideas outreach event, York, 12 June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The York Hub team took part in the York Festival of Ideas outreach day on 12 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/public-discovers-more-about-communicating-with-quantum-at-york-... |
| Description | Participation in exhibition (National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2022), London, November 2022 |
| 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 | Various research teams from across the Quantum Communications Hub programme of work (quantum networking - University of Bristol; handheld consumer QKD - University of Oxford; satellite quantum communications - University of Strathclyde; detectors and sources - Heriot-Watt University) plus the Hub Director, Hub Business Director and Hub Project Manager took part in the 2022 National Quantum Technologies Showcase on 11/11/2022 (QEII exhibition centre, London). The event is the flagship engagement event organised by the UK National Quantum technologies Showase, aimed at professional practioners, government officials, and industry representatives. The 2022 event was attended by more than 1000 delegates from the UK and abroad (US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Japan, EU countries). The Hub teams had the opportunity to showcase progress across many of their deliverables and engage with parties interested in potential collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/hub-developed-quantum-technologies-demonstrated-at-this-years-n... |
| Description | Paul - collaborative meetings with Quantum Technology leads from the US Department of Defence and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group. (Nov. 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Douglas Paul participated in the AUKUS Quantum PNT meetings at Porton Down in November 2022 with the Quantum Technology leads from the US Department of Defence and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Paul - invited talk ("A Guide to the Benefits of Quantum Sensors") which included Ge on Si SPADs to the MOD Defence Technology and Innovation Board on the 6th December 2022. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Douglas Paul gave a presentation on "A Guide to the Benefits of Quantum Sensors" which included Ge on Si SPADs to the MOD Defence Technology and Innovation Board on the 6th December 2022. This committee includes the MOD 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MOD Chief Scientific Advisor, 2*s from all the Commands, Head of the Defence Science Expert Committee and the Head of MOD Defence Science and Technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Peide Zhang presented a poster (Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering) at BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peide Zhang presented a poster (Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering) at BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Peide Zhang, Poster presentation "Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering for CubeSat QKD) at QCrypt 2020 conference (10/08/2020, online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peide Zhang gave a poster presentation "Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering for CubeSat QKD) highlighting the work of the Hub at QCrypt 2020 conference (10/08/2020, online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/ |
| Description | Phillips et al - Contributed talk (Towards a >1 GHz Quantum Dot Single Photon Source at 1550 nm) at Northern Quantum Meeting 2022, 16th September, University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Phillips, Max Godsland, Andrew Foster, Alistair Brash, René Dost, Nasser Babazadeh, Elisa Sala, Nick Martin, Luke Wilson, Jon Heffernan, Maurice Skolnick and Mark Fox. Contributed talk (Towards a >1 GHz Quantum Dot Single Photon Source at 1550 nm) at Northern Quantum Meeting 2022, 16th September, University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Phillips et al - contributed talk (Towards a 10 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities ) at UK Semiconductors Conference 2022, 6-7 July, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catherine Phillips, . Godsland, A. Foster, A. Brash, R. Dost, N. Babazadeh, E. Sala, N. Martin, L. Wilson, J. Heffernan, M. S. Skolnick, A. M. Fox, contributed talk (Towards a 10 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities ) at UK Semiconductors Conference 2022, 6-7 July, Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://uksemiconductors.com |
| Description | Pickston - Contributed talk ("Quantum Networking Advantage With Graph States") Optica Quantum 2.0 conference, Boston, June 2022 |
| 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 Alex Pickston gave a contributed talk ("Quantum Networking Advantage With Graph States") Optica Quantum 2.0 conference, Boston, June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.optica.org/en-us/events/meeting_archives/2022/quantum/ |
| Description | Pirandola - Invited Seminar on "Bounds for quantum communications", Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy (30/5/2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator S. Pirandola gave an invited seminar on "Bounds for quantum communications", Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy (30/5/2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pitalua-Garcia - contributed talk ( "Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at Single Photon Workshop 2022, Seoul, South Korea, 31 October - 4 November 2022, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pitalua-Garcia - contributed talk ( "Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at Single Photon Workshop 2022, Seoul, South Korea, 31 October - 4 November 2022, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://platform.qureca.com/event/single-photon-workshop-spw-2022/ |
| Description | Pitalúa-GarcÃa - contributed talk ("Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at QCRYPT 2022, 29 August - 2 September, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pitalúa-García gave an online talk ("Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at QCRYPT 2022, 29 August - 2 September, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/ |
| Description | Poster presentation (Bhavsar R; Ragy S; Colbeck R): Improved device-independent randomness expansion rates from tight bounds on the two sided randomness using CHSH tests, 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 | Bhavsar et al. gave an online poster presentation (Improved device-independent randomness expansion rates from tight bounds on the two sided randomness using CHSH tests) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/ |
| Description | Poster presentation (Bozzio M; Cavailles A; Diamanti E; Kent A; Pitalúa-GarcÃa D): Multi-photon and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bozzio et al,. gave an online poster presentation (Multi-photon and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography) at the QCrypt 2021 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 presentation (Dada A; Kaniewski J; Gawith C; Lavery M; Hadfield RH; Faccio D; Clerici M): Near-maximal Polarization Entanglement for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution at 2.1 µm, 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 | Dada et al. gave an online poster presentation (Near-maximal Polarization Entanglement for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution at 2.1 µm) at the QCrypt 2021 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 presentation (Jöhlinger F, Rosenfeld L, Semenenko H, Aktas D, & Rarity J.): Resilient Chip-Scale QKD with Integrated Hacking Prevention, 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 | Jöhlinger F et al. gave an online poster presentation (Resilient Chip-Scale QKD with Integrated Hacking Prevention) at the QCrypt 2021 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 presentation (Lupo C): Resource-efficient energy test and parameter estimation in continuous-variable quantum key distribution, Crypt 2021 |
| 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 gave an online poster presentation (Resource-efficient energy test and parameter estimation in continuous-variable quantum key distribution) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/ |
| Description | Poster presentation (Morrison CL, Graffitti F, Xian Koong Z., Stoltz NG; Pousa TG, Bouwmeester D; Mazzarella L; Jeffers J; Oi DKL; Fedrizzi A; Gerardot BD): Quantum key distribution with a bright source of telecom single photons based on quantum frequency conversion, 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 | Morrison (et al.) gave an online poster presentation (Quantum key distribution with a bright source of telecom single photons based on quantum frequency conversion) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Poster presentation (Reichmuth D; Puthoor IV; Wallden P; Andersson E): A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol, 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 | Reichmuth et al. gave an online poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at the 2021 QCrypt international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/ |
| Description | Poster presentation (Reichmuth D; Puthoor IV; Wallden P; Andersson E): Imperfect quantum oblivious transfer with one-sided security, 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 | Reichmuth et al. gave an online poster presentation (Imperfect quantum oblivious transfer with one-sided security) at the QCrypt 2021 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 presentation (Sidhu JS; Izumi S; Neergaard-Nielsen JS; Lupo C; Andersen UL): Quantum Receiver for Phase-Shift Keying at the Single-Photon Level, 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 | Sidhu et al. gave an online poster presentation (Quantum Receiver for Phase-Shift Keying at the Single-Photon Level) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/ |
| Description | Poster presentation - - Amanda Weerasinghe; Muataz Alhussein; He Li; Adrian Wonfor and Richard Penty, 'Experimental demonstration of practical high speed Gaussian coherent state continuous variable quantum key distribution with real-time parameter monitoring and key distillation', Qcrypt 2022, Aug 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Weerasinghe; Muataz Alhussein; He Li; Adrian Wonfor and Richard Penty, 'Experimental demonstration of practical high speed Gaussian coherent state continuous variable quantum key distribution with real-time parameter monitoring and key distillation', Qcrypt 2022, Aug 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Poster presentation - O. Alia, A. Schreier, R. Wang, S. Bahrani, R. Singh, G. Faulkner, J. Rarity, D. O'Brien, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals", ECOC 202, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | O. Alia, A. Schreier, R. Wang, S. Bahrani, R. Singh, G. Faulkner, J. Rarity, D. O'Brien, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu5.67. Abstract for poster presentation delivered at European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2022, European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2022 Basel Switzerland, 18-22 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ecoc2022.org/index.php |
| Description | Puthoor I. - contributed talk "Unambiguous quantum state elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication" at the virtual Quantum 2020 conference (20/10/2020) |
| 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. gave a contributed talk "Unambiguous quantum state elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication" at the virtual Quantum 2020 conference (20/10/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30820&eventID=1552 |
| Description | Rafferty - public engagement lecture "Ciphers & Codes: past, present, future,", Queen's University Belfast, 24 June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rafferty - public engagement lecture "Ciphers & Codes: past, present, future,", Queen's University Belfast, 24 June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Rafferty and other QUB colleagues have participated in the ETSI TC CYBER QSC WG (Quantum Safe Cryptography Working Group). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rafferty and other QUB colleagues have participated in the ETSI TC CYBER QSC WG (Quantum Safe Cryptography Working Group). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.etsi.org/technologies/quantum-safe-cryptography#:~:text=The%20ETSI%20Cyber%20Quantum%20S... |
| Description | Reza Nejabati gave an invited talk about "Quantum network test-bed and use cases in Bristol", in Quantum Exchange institute in Chicago University, USA, Dec 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Reza Nejabati gave an invited talk about "Quantum network test-bed and use cases in Bristol", in Quantum Exchange institute in Chicago University, USA, Dec 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Reza Nejabati - Panelist in the Quantum Data Centers session at the 2022 Inside Quantum Technology - The Hague workshop, 21-23 February 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Reza Nejabati took part in an online panel discussion on Quantum Data Centres as part of the 2022 Inside Quantum Technology hybrid event (online and in-person) at The Hague, 21-23 February 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iqtevent.com/thehague/# |
| Description | Roger Colbeck gave a talk (Assurance of Quantum Random Number Generators) at the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub co-investigator presented the work of the Hub on "Assurance of Quantum Random Number Generators" as part of the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, which took place at Cambridge, in April 11-12, 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantum... |
| Description | Rui Wang - Contributed talk (A Dynamic Multi-Protocol Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network) as part of the Quantum Networking and Resiliency session at the 2022 OFC Conference, March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rui Wang gave a contributed talk (A Dynamic Multi-Protocol Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network) as part of the Quantum Networking and Resiliency session at the 2022 OFC Conference, March 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Thursday#th3d.1 |
| Description | Rupesh Kumar, Poster Presentation (Improving the performance of CV-QKD with multi-mode signals) at the 2020 QCrypt international conference (11/08/2020) |
| 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 Kumar gave a poster presentation (Improving the performance of CV-QKD with multi-mode signals) at the 2020 QCrypt virtual international conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/ |
| Description | Schreier A. - contributed talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at 2022 TOP Conference, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub research associate Andy Schreier gave a talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics Conference, London, 24 February 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/timetable-2022/ |
| Description | Series of online secondary school assemblies focusing on career pathways in quantum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Quantum Communications Hub organised a series of online secondary schools assemblies in collaboration with the South East England STEM Learning Partnership. The assemblies were aimed at highlighting career pathways in the area of quantum technologies with different sessions dedicated on quantum communications, computing, sensing, metrology, imaging, PhDs etc. The Hub invited the other UK QT Hubs to take part alongside also NPL and the UCL Quantum CDT. The quantum comms session took place on 18 May 2022 and the Hub researchers involved were: Dr Catherine Phillips at the UNiversity of Sheffield, Dr Ross Donaldson of Heriot-Watt University and Dr Jasminder Sidhu of the University of Strathclyde. Over 50 schools registered to attend the event and the online assembly was recorded and uploaded to YouTube to allow more students an opportunity to see it. The researchers' presentations (on what being a quantum researcher meant on a day-to-day basis) were followed by a live Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/0LgkSdSvjIY |
| Description | Siddarth Joshi gave a contributed talk (A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/20) |
| 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 Joshi gave a contributed talk (A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/20) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30393&eventID=1255 |
| Description | Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave a contributed talk "A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network"CLEO USA 2020 (Virtual, 10/05/2020 to 15/05/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave a contributed talk "A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network"CLEO USA 2020 (Virtual, 10/05/2020 to 15/05/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=cleo_si-2020-STh4G.1&origin=search |
| Description | Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave an invited talk ("A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network") at SPCOM 2020 (Virtual) 19/07/2020 to 24/07/2020, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave an invited talk ("A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network") at SPCOM 2020 (Virtual) 19/07/2020 to 24/07/2020, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~spcom/2020/thematic_workshop.html |
| Description | Sidhu J - contributed talk (Near optimal quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single photon level) at Asian Quantum Information Science (Tokyo, Japan) September 1-4 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Near optimal quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single photon level) at Asian Quantum Information Science (Tokyo, Japan) September 1-4 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://aqis-conf.org/2021/ |
| Description | Sidhu J - invited seminar at the Quantum Information Theory meeting at MIT on February 28 2022 |
| 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 Jasminder Sidhu gave an nvited seminar at the Quantum Information Theory meeting at MIT on February 28 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sidhu J. - Contributed talk ('Modelling the performance of SatQKD missions' ) at International Network in Space Quantum Technologies workshop 1(Strathclyde, UK) August 3-5 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sidhu J. - Contributed talk ('Modelling the performance of SatQKD missions' ) at International Network in Space Quantum Technologies workshop 1(Strathclyde, UK) August 3-5 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.insqt.ac.uk/insqt-workshops/workshop-1/ |
| Description | Sidhu et al - Contributed talk (Quantum receiver for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) at SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub investigator Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Quantum receiver for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) at SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://optics.org/events/2021/909 |
| Description | Sidhu et al. - poster presentation (Linear optics and photodetection achieve near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination) at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jasminder Sidhu ; Michael Bullock ; Saikat Guha ; Cosmo Lupo - poster presentation (Linear optics and photodetection achieve near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination) at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/ |
| Description | Smith Charles, et al. "Simulation and design optimization of germanium-on-silicon single photon avalanche diodes" SPIE Photonics West (PW23O), USA (Jan. 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Smith Charles, Jaroslaw Kirdoda, Derek Dumas, Conor Coughlan, Charlie McCarthy, Hannah Mowbray, Muhammad Mirza, Univ. of Glasgow ; Fiona Fleming, Xin Yi, Lisa Saalbach, Gerald Buller, Heriot-Watt Univ.; Douglas Paul, Ross Millar, Univ. of Glasgow, "Simulation and design optimization of germanium-on-silicon single photon avalanche diodes" SPIE Photonics West (PW23O), USA (Jan. 2023) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://spie.org/PW23O/conferencedetails/silicon-photonics |
| Description | Spiller - Invited talk at Quantum Communciation Standards Workshop on 12 Oct 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Tim Spiller gave an invited talk on the work of the Hub during a Quantum Communication Standards Workshop,. jointly organised by NPL, the Quantum Communications Hub, and the British Standards Insitute, on 12 Oct 2022 (online). The workshop brought together representatives of the UK quantum communications industry to agree the priorities for future standardisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/npl-quantum-communication-standards-workshop-tickets-411835971477 |
| Description | Spiller - invited panelist on UKRI Hubs & Programme Grants: recent progress in optical communications, photonic technologies, quantum communications and quantum computing workshop, TOP Conference, London 2022 |
| 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 | Hub Director Spiller was part of a panel discussion during a workshop on UKRI Hubs & Programme Grants: recent progress in optical communications, photonic technologies, quantum communications and quantum computing at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics Conference, London 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/timetable-2022/ |
| Description | Spiller T - invited talk (Quantum Communications at All Distance Scales) at the 2022 National Quantum Technologies Showcase, London, 11 November 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Spiller gave an invited presentation on the work of the Hub in front of a large audience of industry representatives. The showcase is the flagship event of the national quantum technologies programme aimed at fostering new collaborations and boosting the emerging quantum ecosystem in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/uk-national-quantum-technologies-showcase-2022/ |
| Description | Spiller T - invited talk (Quantum communications at all distance scales, but especially the largest ones) at RAL Space 18th Appleton Space Conference, Harwell Campus, 1 December 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Tim Spiller gave an invited talk (Quantum communications at all distance scales, but especially the largest ones) at RAL Space 18th Appleton Space Conference, Harwell Campus, 1 December 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/18th-Appleton-Space-Conference.aspx |
| Description | Spiller T - invited talk at quantum workshop at CUNY, New York, 16 May 2022 |
| 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 - invited talk at quantum workshop at CUNY, New York, 16 May 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Spiller T - invited talk on the work of the Hub at Third Workshop for Quantum Repeaters and Networks August 19-21, 2022, in Chicago |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Spiller gave an invited talk on the work of the Hub at Third Workshop for Quantum Repeaters and Networks August 19-21, 2022, in Chicago |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://chicagoquantum.org/wqrn3#:~:text=We%20are%20pleased%20to%20invite,August%2019%2D21%2C%202022... |
| Description | Spiller T - participation by invitation in NPL's Quantum Industry Workshop, Westminster, London 24th January 2023 |
| 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 | Hub Director Spiller was personally invited to participate in NPL's Quantum Industry Workshop, Westminster, London 24th January 2023. Participants debated issues such as: • What are the barriers limiting your use of quantum technologies and how could they be better overcome with the support of NPL? • What measurement capabilities do you need NPL to make available to enhance your quantum development plans over the next 2-5 years? • What are the necessary test and evaluation facilities required to help your product innovation? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Spiller T - participation in BEIS workshop to shape the upcoming National Quantum Strategy, London 21 April 2022 |
| 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 | Hub Director Spiller was personally invited to take part in BEIS workshop to shape the upcoming National Quantum Strategy, London 21 April 2022. The workshop explored the UK's strengths and weaknesses in quantum technologies research and articulate the upcoming research challenges that the National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP) should seek to address. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Spiller T - participation in Quantum Symposium, jointly organised by Digital Catapult and the National Quantum Computing Centre, London, 28 February 2023 |
| 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 | Hub Director Tim Spiller was personally invited to take part in the 'Quantum Symposium' in collaboration with the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) on Tuesday 28 February 2023. The event brought together industry players, academics and other professionals into conversation with the UK's digital regulators (Ofcom, Financial Conduct Authority, Competition and Markets Authority, and the Information Commissioner's Office) to understand how quantum technologies are evolving and to unpack some of the regulatory opportunities and challenges facing both firms and public authorities. The Symposium featured a number of sessions across a full day. The morning was opened by senior staff from DRCF regulators, followed by a keynote speech from the National Quantum Computing Centre and panels staffed by quantum technology firms and industry experts to unpack quantum technologies, their opportunities and risks, and what activities regulators should consider in more detail. This was an opportunity to contribute to the discussion around Quantum Technologies and be part of some of the UK's leading digital regulators efforts to understand the ecosystem, allowing us to implement responsive policy and ensure the UK is one the best destinations to innovate responsibly and scale in. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://digicat.secure.force.com/events/event/home/quantumsymposiumvirtual |
| Description | Spiller T - participation in Roundtable discussion on the adoption and commercialisation of quantum technologies, organised by the University of Cambridge and the Quantum Computing and Simulation (QCS) Hub, London, 20 June 2022 |
| 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 | Hub Director Spiller was personally invited to take part in Roundtable discussion on the adoption and commercialisation of quantum technologies, organised by the University of Cambridge and the Quantum Computing and Simulation (QCS) Hub, London, 20 June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Spiller T. - Participation in panel discussion "Commercialisation of Quantum Technology" during 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (23/09/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Spiller took part in panel discussion "Commercialisation of Quantum Technology" during 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (23/09/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11573/1157301/Commercialisation-of... |
| Description | Spiller T. - Participation in the 2019 Quantum Technologies Expert Mission to US |
| 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 took part in the latest Innovate UK Global Expert Mission for Quantum Technologies to the US. Between the 18th and 22nd of November, a delegation of all four Hub Directors, senior industrialists from BT, Teledyne/e2v, Riverlane and the National Physical Laboratory, along with representatives from the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, visited a number of sites discussing opportunities for collaboration. Washington DC, Boulder and the University of Colorado, Santa Barbara, the University of California and CalTech, San Francisco, Stanford and National Laboratories as well as Google, were all key destinations for the group, whose main mission objective was to inform the UK's international strategy for quantum technologies by providing a deeper understanding of the opportunities and barriers to building collaborations and partnerships with US organisations. The mission sought to achieve this objective by providing an evidence base as to a) the existing US landscape for quantum science and technologies; and b) the priorities for US policy and investment in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://admin.ktn-uk.co.uk/app/uploads/2020/03/0183_KTN_USA-QuantumTechnologiesReport_v4.pdf |
| Description | Spiller T. - outreach talk on Quantum Communications Technologies during European Quantum Week for secondary school children around Europe (03/11/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Hub Director Spiller gave a pre-recorded outreach talk on Quantum Communications Technologies on YouTube to a number of secondary school kids around Europe as part of European Quantum Week. The recording is available on the project YouTube channel and as a result, a number of new subscribers have signed up to the project YouTube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://eqw.qt.eu/eqw-education/ |
| Description | Spiller T. gave a talk on the UKNQTP and the work of the Hub at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore in Feb. 2020 as part of a scientific visit there to attend the advisory board meeting of the SpeQtre UK/Singapore joint mission project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Director Spiller gave a talk on the UKNQTP and the work of the Hub at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore in Feb. 2020 as part of a scientific visit there to attend the advisory board meeting of the SpeQtral UK/Singapore joint mission project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Spiller T. has contributed to the Emerging Technologies report published by Ofcom (published Jan. 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Spiller T. contributed to the Emerging Technologies report published by Ofcom (published Jan. 2021), the UK's independent regulator of communications services. Ofcom's regulatory responsibilities encompass the monitoring of broadband and mobile services; TV; radio; video-on-demand services; post; and the airwaves used by wireless devices. It's imperative that Ofcom keeps abreast with technologies emerging within the field of communications and the impacts that they could have, so as to ensure that, when these technologies arrive, people benefit from them and are protected from any potential risks. An 'Emerging Technologies Programme' has been set up by Ofcom to investigate how the way people communicate and connect with each other is evolving across fixed and wireless networks for broadcast, broadband, mobile and satellite services and the report was produced as part of this. For each of the sectors, the report considers 'where we are now' and 'where we are going next', along with, in some cases, any barriers to adoption. Quantum technologies and their applications, on which Hub Director, Professor Tim Spiller, was consulted, are highlighted within the fixed and optical communications chapter of the report, however, it is recognised that quantum technologies will have implications for connectivity too. The potential risks posed to secure communications by quantum computers is briefly discussed, along with the possibility for the deployment of Quantum Key Distribution to secure commercial networks and of quantum random number generators for use in encryption. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/emerging-technologies-shaping-future-o... |
| Description | Spiller gave a talk on quantum communications technologies at the Financial Conduct Authority /Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub organised workshop on quantum computing and finance (December 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Spiller gave a talk on quantum communications technologies at the Financial Conduct Authority /Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub-organised workshop on quantum computing and finance (December 2020). A full report will be published in 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Spiller gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications Hub - overview of Phase 2 work towards a future quantum internet".) at the online workshop on Quantum Internet organised by Innovate UK and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (5/01/2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Spiller gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications Hub - overview of Phase 2 work towards a future quantum internet".) at the online workshop on Quantum Internet organised by Innovate UK and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (5/01/2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Stroh - poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at QCMC 2022 conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-15 July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stroh - poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at QCMC 2022 conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-15 July 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://qt.eu/about-quantum-flagship/events/qcmc-2022-international-conference-on-quantum-communicat... |
| Description | Stroh L - poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at BQIT 2022, Bristol, 25-28 April 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hub PhD student Lara Stroh gave a poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at BQIT 2022, Bristol, 25-28 April 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Technical Demonstration - Tessinari R: Demonstration of a Dynamic QKD Network Control Using a QKD-Aware SDN Application Over a Programmable Hardware Encryptor, OFC 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rodrigo Tessinary gave a technical demonstration (Demonstration of a Dynamic QKD Network Control Using a QKD-Aware SDN Application Over a Programmable Hardware Encryptor) at the 2021 OFC - The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition [online], 6-11 June 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/demo/ |
| Description | Tello A. et al - contributed talk "Prospects of time-bin quantum key distribution in turbulent free-space channels" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tello A. et al -gave a contributed talk "Prospects of time-bin quantum key distribution in turbulent free-space channels" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://spie.org/ESD/conferencedetails/emerging-imaging-sensing-technologies?SSO=1 |
| Description | The Hub team has launched a blog ("Quantumness, Randomness and Endless Possibilities") focusing on highlighted diverse career pathways in quantum technologies |
| 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 Hub team has launched a blog ("Quantumness, Randomness and Endless Possibilities") focusing on highlighted diverse career pathways in quantum technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/blog/site/wider-community-and-schools/ |
| Description | The Hub team have launched a new public engagement twitter feed (@Quantum_City) to disseminate the activities of the Quantum City outreach partnership to a wider audience (June 2020) |
| 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 Hub team have launched a new public engagement twitter feed (@Quantum_City) to disseminate the activities of the Quantum City outreach partnership to a wider audience (June 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Quantum_City |
| Description | The Sheffield team participated at the New Scientist Live London event on 7-9th October 2022. |
| 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 | The Sheffield Quantum Communications Hub research team participated at the New Scientist Live public engagement science festival as part of the Quantum City stand. The team engaged with nearly 3000 members of the general public over the course of 3 days (7-9th October 2022) talking about how light is used in quantum mechanics to securely convey information between two parties. A tik tok video taken at the event and uploaded at the New Scientist TikTok channel has gathered more than 2M views and hundreds of thousands of likes. - https://www.tiktok.com/@newscientist/video/7152188912838905093 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.tiktok.com/@newscientist/video/7152188912838905093 |
| Description | Thomas et al - contributed talk (Active phase stabilisation for the distribution of high-dimensional quantum states) at ICIQP 2022 Copenhagen (October) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Molly Thomas, Daniel Llewellyn, Benjamin Slater, Caterina Vigliar, Beatrice Da Lio, Stefano Paesani, Massimo Borhi, John G. Rarity, Lief K. Oxenløwe, Karsten Rottwitt, Mark G. Thompson, Yunhung Ding, Jianwei Wang, Davide Bacco, Jorge Barreto - contributed talk (Active phase stabilisation for the distribution of high-dimensional quantum states) at ICIQP 2022 Copenhagen (October) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.conferencemanager.dk/iciqp2022 |
| Description | Thomas et al - contributed talk (Multiple mode phase stabilisation across integrated photonic devices) at Photon22, Nottingham (August-September 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Molly Thomas, Dan Llewelly, Benjamin Slater, Jorge Barreto - contribute talk (Multiple mode phase stabilisation across integrated photonic devices) at Photon22, Nottingham (August-September 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.photon.org.uk/ |
| Description | White et al - contributed talk "Quantum Key Distribution in the Service Provider Network," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | C. White, A. Wonfor, P. Wright, E. H. Salas and A. Lord, "Quantum Key Distribution in the Service Provider Network," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-3. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748184 |
| Description | Wonfor A. - Contributed talk (QKD Secured Networks in the UK) at the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2022 |
| 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 co-investigator Adrian Wonfor presented on the work of the Hub (QKD Secured Networks in the UK) in front of an international audience as part of the QNetworks 2022 workshop, organised by the Hub. The workshop was in hybrid format (in person with also virtual participants) and took place at Cambridge from 11-12 April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantum... |
| Description | Wooltorton L et al - Contributed talk (Tight analytic bound on the trade-off between device-independent randomness and nonlocality), QCrypt 2022 Taipei |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wooltorton L (Brown P, Colbeck R.) - Contributed talk (Tight analytic bound on the trade-off between device-independent randomness and nonlocality), QCrypt 2022 Taipei |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2022-08-29 |
| Description | Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 virtual conference, 1st September 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 virtual conference, 1st September 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.photon.org.uk/home |
| Description | Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Super-resolved entanglement-assisted estimation of range and velocity) at Beyond IID 8, 11th November 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Super-resolved entanglement-assisted estimation of range and velocity) at Beyond IID 8, 11th November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/beyondiid8 |
| Description | Zhang C. et al - Contributed talk "Link loss analysis for a satellite quantum communication downlink" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zhang C. et al gave a contributed talk "Link loss analysis for a satellite quantum communication downlink" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://spie.org/ESD/conferencedetails/emerging-imaging-sensing-technologies?SSO=1 |
| Description | Zixin Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 international (virtual) conference (01/09/2020) |
| 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 Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 international (virtual) conference (01/09/2020) organised by the Institute of Physics (IoP) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30549&eventID=1255 |