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Quantum information processing and communication

Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

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We present an excerpt of the document “Quantum Information Processing and Communication: Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe”, which has been recently published in electronic form at the website of FET (the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit of the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission, http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-sr.htm). This document has been elaborated, following a former suggestion by FET, by a committee of QIPC scientists to provide input towards the European Commission for the preparation of the Seventh Framework Program. Besides being a document addressed to policy makers and funding agencies (both at the European and national level), the document contains a detailed scientific assessment of the state-of-the-art, main research goals, challenges, strengths, weaknesses, visions and perspectives of all the most relevant QIPC sub-fields, that we report here. Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Th. Beth, one of the pioneers of QIPC, whose contributions have had a significant scientific impact on the development as well as on the visibility of a field that he enthusiastically helped to shape since its early days.

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  1. Institut für Quantenoptik and Quanteninformation der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    P. Zoller, D. Binosi, R. Blatt & H. Briegel

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    P. Zoller, R. Blatt, H. Briegel, H. Briegel, D. Bruss, T. Calarco, J. I. Cirac, D. Deutsch, J. Eisert, A. Ekert, C. Fabre, N. Gisin, P. Grangiere, M. Grassl, S. Haroche, A. Imamoglu, A. Karlson, J. Kempe, L. Kouwenhoven, S. Kröll, G. Leuchs, M. Lewenstein, D. Loss, N. Lütkenhaus, S. Massar, J. E. Mooij, M. B. Plenio, E. Polzik, S. Popescu, G. Rempe, A. Sergienko, D. Suter, J. Twamley, G. Wendin, R. Werner, A. Winter, J. Wrachtrup & A. Zeilinger

  3. Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Th. Beth & M. Grassl

  4. ECT*, 38050, Villazzano (TN), Italy

    D. Binosi & T. Calarco

  5. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    R. Blatt

  6. Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    D. Bruss

  7. CRS BEC-INFM Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38050, Povo, Italy

    T. Calarco

  8. Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748, Garching, Germany

    J. I. Cirac & G. Rempe

  9. Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK

    D. Deutsch

  10. QOLS, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    J. Eisert & M. B. Plenio

  11. Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik, 14469, Potsdam, Germany

    J. Eisert

  12. DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK

    A. Ekert

  13. LKB, École Normale Supérieure et Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    C. Fabre

  14. Université de Genéve GAP-Optique, 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    N. Gisin

  15. Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Centre Universitaire, 91403, Orsay, France

    P. Grangiere

  16. Département de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 75005, Paris Cedex, France

    S. Haroche

  17. Institut für Quantenelektronik, 8093, Zürich, Germany

    A. Imamoglu

  18. FET, DG INFSO, European Commission, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    A. Karlson

  19. Université de Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    J. Kempe

  20. QTG, Kavli Intstitute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ, Delft, The Netherlands

    L. Kouwenhoven

  21. Division of Atomic Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, 22100, Lund, Sweden

    S. Kröll

  22. Lehrstuhl für Optik, Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik (Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe), 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    G. Leuchs

  23. ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    M. Lewenstein

  24. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, 4056, Basel, Switzerland

    D. Loss

  25. Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    N. Lütkenhaus

  26. Laboratoire d'Information Quantique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    S. Massar

  27. Kavli Intstitute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ, Delft, The Netherlands

    J. E. Mooij

  28. Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark

    E. Polzik

  29. University of Bristol, H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK

    S. Popescu

  30. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    A. Sergienko

  31. Fachbereich Physik, Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    D. Suter

  32. Department of Mathematical Physics, Logic Building, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

    J. Twamley

  33. Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience - MC2, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

    G. Wendin

  34. Institut für Mathematische Physik, TU Braunschweig, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    R. Werner

  35. Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TW, UK

    A. Winter

  36. Universität Stuttgart, Physikalisches Institut, 70550, Stuttgart, Germany

    J. Wrachtrup

  37. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, 1090, Wien, Austria

    A. Zeilinger

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Zoller, P., Beth, T., Binosi, D. et al. Quantum information processing and communication . Eur. Phys. J. D 36, 203–228 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00251-1

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