Partenariato esteso “National Quantum Science and Technology Institute NQSTI”, PNRR Missione 4
The National Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI) is a consortium funded under Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) in the framework of the European Union – NextGenerationEU. It was officially launched in January 2023 and will run for three years. The ambitious goals are:
- to team up Italian entities carrying out competitive and innovative research in the field of quantum science and technology (QST), and
- to stimulate future industrial innovation in this field, providing a forum in which novel ideas and opportunities are transferred to companies. Moreover, a significant fraction of the project resources is dedicated to support a comprehensive education program,to favour technology transfer to companies,and to implement a robust outreach program to make QST pervasive in the society.”
The Qlab is involved in the activities of spoke 4 “Photonic platform for quantum technologies” and spoke 7 “Complete Quantum System”. Among the different research activites we have: development of high brightness integrated sources of multipartite entangled photons with tailored spectra based on second-order and third-order material nonlinearity, development of integrated squeezed-light sources for CV quantum experiments, design and development of integrated optical components to allow for single photon manipulation with active devices.
More info on the project can be found here.
Centro Nazionale “National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing”, tematica “Simulazioni, calcolo e analisi dei dati ad alte prestazioni”, PNRR Missione 4
The National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing, created and managed by the ICSC, is one of the five National Centres established by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), covering designated strategic sectors for the development of the country.
The activities of the Centre will focus on maintenance and upgrade of the Italian HPC and Big Data infrastructure, as well as on the development of advanced methods and numerical applications and software tools to integrate computing, simulation, collection, and analysis of data of interest for research, manufacturing, and society, also through cloud and distributed approaches.
The Qlab is involved in the activites of spoke 10, “Quantum Computing”. We are currently working on the development of sources of squeezed light operating at near infrared wavelengths and compatible with avalanche silicon detectors for quantum computation.
More info on the project can be found here.
HyperSpace project: joining efforts of European and Canadian institutes towards a global Quantum network
HyperSpace aims to extend the hitherto untapped potential of high-dimensionally entangled photons to long-distance free-space communications. Encoding multiple qubits on individual photons via d-level quantum properties – qudits – increases channel capacity and yields benefits for the implementation of advanced quantum information processing (QIP), such as improving resilience with respect to noise and eavesdropping in quantum key distribution (QKD). To facilitate deployment on scalable small satellites, the team seeks not only to develop new protocols based on quantum hyperentanglement, but also to transfer these protocols into scalable photonic integration platforms.
The Qlab is involved in the development of photon pair sources of ultra-high brightness and hyper-entangled in the time-frequency bin domain. These sources will be exploited in a real-field quantum key distribution scenario over a free-space communication channel. A related activity is the development of fast-reconfiguring circuits for closing the post-selection loophole in experiments involving time-bin entangled photons.
More info on the project can be found here.
Collaborations with external partners
