Quantum information processing and communication

P. Zoller; Th. Beth; D. Binosi; R. Blatt; 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

doi:10.1140/epjd/e2005-00251-1

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Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

Eur. Phys. J. D 36, 203-228 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00251-1

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

P. Zoller¹^,2, Th. Beth³, D. Binosi¹^,4^a, R. Blatt¹^,5, H. Briegel¹^,2, D. Bruss⁶^,2, T. Calarco⁷^,4^,2, J. I. Cirac⁸^,2, D. Deutsch⁹^,2, J. Eisert¹⁰^,11^,2, A. Ekert¹²^,2, C. Fabre¹³^,2, N. Gisin¹⁴^,2, P. Grangiere¹⁵^,2, M. Grassl³^,2, S. Haroche¹⁶^,2, A. Imamoglu¹⁷^,2, A. Karlson¹⁸^,2, J. Kempe¹⁹^,2, L. Kouwenhoven²⁰^,2, S. Kröll²¹^,2, G. Leuchs²²^,2, M. Lewenstein²³^,2, D. Loss²⁴^,2, N. Lütkenhaus²⁵^,2, S. Massar²⁶^,2, J. E. Mooij²⁷^,2, M. B. Plenio¹⁰^,2, E. Polzik²⁸^,2, S. Popescu²⁹^,2, G. Rempe⁸^,2, A. Sergienko³⁰^,2, D. Suter³¹^,2, J. Twamley³²^,2, G. Wendin³³^,2, R. Werner³⁴^,2, A. Winter³⁵^,2, J. Wrachtrup³⁶^,2 and A. Zeilinger³⁷^,2

¹ Institut für Quantenoptik and Quanteninformation der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
² Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
³ Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
⁴ ECT*, 38050 Villazzano (TN), Italy
⁵ Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
⁶ Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
⁷ CRS BEC-INFM Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38050 Povo, Italy
⁸ Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching, Germany
⁹ Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
¹⁰ QOLS, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, UK
¹¹ Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
¹² DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
¹³ LKB, École Normale Supérieure et Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
¹⁴ Université de Genéve GAP-Optique, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
¹⁵ Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Centre Universitaire, 91403 Orsay, France
¹⁶ Département de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris Cedex, France
¹⁷ Institut für Quantenelektronik, 8093 Zürich, Germany
¹⁸ FET, DG INFSO, European Commission, 1049 Brussels, Belgium
¹⁹ Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
²⁰ QTG, Kavli Intstitute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ Delft, The Netherlands
²¹ Lund Institute of Technology, Division of Atomic Physics, 22100 Lund, Sweden
²² Lehrstuhl für Optik, Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik (Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe), 91058 Erlangen, Germany
²³ ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
²⁵ Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
²⁶ Laboratoire d'Information Quantique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
²⁷ Kavli Intstitute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ Delft, The Netherlands
²⁸ Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, 2100, Denmark
²⁹ University of Bristol, H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
³⁰ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston MA 02215, USA
³¹ Fachbereich Physik, Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
³² Department of Mathematical Physics, Logic Building, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
³³ Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience - MC2, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
³⁴ Institut für Mathematische Physik, TU Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
³⁵ Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TW, UK
³⁶ Universität Stuttgart, Physikalisches Institut, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
³⁷ Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, 1090 Wien, Austria

Corresponding author: ^a daniele.binosi@uibk.ac.at

Received: 12 August 2005
Published online: 13 September 2005

Abstract

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.

PACS: 03.67.-a – Quantum information

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