QUTE-F Tommaso Calarco tommaso.calarco@uni-ulm.de Rainer Blatt Vladimir Buzek Elisabeth Giacobino Peter Zoller
the future IS quantum Driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries Eventually the quantum wall will be hit Not a question of if rather of when Push back the hitting time (more Moore) and/or change completely the technology (more than Moore) Classical Regime 103 Electrons / device Moore s law: the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years 104 102 101 1 0.1 1990 Quantum Regime 1995 2000 2005 Year quantum information is a radical departure in information technology, more fundamentally different from current technology than the digital computer is from the abacus. W. D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel laureate member of the AQUTE Integrating Project 2010 2015 2020
the future IS quantum 104 Driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries Eventually the quantum wall will be hit Classical Regime 103 Electrons / device Moore s law: the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years 102 101 1 Not a question of if rather of when 0.1 1990 Push back the hitting time (more Moore) and/or change completely the technology (more than Moore) Quantum Regime 1995 2000 2005 Year 2010 2015 2020 Quantum metrology Quantum communications quantum information is a radical departure inentanglement information technology,assisted more fundamentally different from current Spintronics magnetometry technology than the digital computer is from the abacus. Quantum imaging W. D. Phillips,Disruptive 1997 Nobel laureatephotonics not limited to computing! member of the AQUTE Integrating Project Quantum simulations
ambition Allow Europe to play a key role in the future market where quantum limits define the performance of industrial applications Builds and expands on the recent efforts in exploring the use of quantum degrees of freedom to perform tasks unattainable by classical systems Combination of quantum physics with information science creates a new conceptual platform for a family of potentially disruptive technologies New technological paradigms explored with potential to lead in the mid/long-term to entirely new fields of economic activities in ICT...trying to find a computer simulation of physics, seems to me to be an excellent program to follow out...and I'm not happy with all the analyses that go with just the classical theory, because nature isn t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem because it doesn't look so easy. R. P. Feynman, 1965 Nobel laureate Simulating physics with computers, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 21, 467 (1982)
impact Two types of quantum technologies genuine applications of quantum effects quantum metrology entanglement assisted magnetometry quantum imaging quantum simulations quantum computation quantum communication spintronics technologies instrumental in developing quantum devices single- and entangled-photon/atom/ion sources and/or detectors chips for ion and atom traps Impacts on areas ranging from wholly new and innovative technologies to improvements in everyday concerns (security and privacy of information, possibly health care and energy efficiency) But it could be that the most profound and mysterious feature of quantum mechanics, known as quantum entanglement has not been exploited yet. Quantum entanglement opens the way to radically new ways of transmitting and processing information Th. W. Hänsch, 2005 Nobel laureate member of the AQUTE Integrating Project
integration Federates EU efforts on different quantum aspects (e.g. the FET PIs on Quantum Information Foundation and Technologies, NANO-ICT and Molecular Scale Devices and Systems) including possibly initiatives addressing spintronics, single nano objects, disruptive photonics and similar topics Comprises the most promising ideas and approaches to continue the progress granted by Moore s law, for example quantum information processing can exploit coherence effects as a technological resource for applications to find solutions to go beyond Moore s law (More Than Moore) atomic scale systems and devices can use decoherence to make the system behave classically as soon as possible pushing back the quantum wall (More Moore) Quantum Information Technologies hold the promise of revolutionizing computing and communication. FET invested early in these mind boggling technologies and rallied a group of Member States to match its efforts. Thank to this support, Europe now produces half of the scientific knowledge worldwide in this area and leads the commercial exploitation of this technology in the area of network security. What was considered fiction less than a decade ago, has become a reality today. V. Reading, Commissioner DG-INFSO opening address of the FET Science Beyond Fiction conference (Prague, 2009)
plausibility Several roadmaps already in place (e.g., the one on QIFTs); constant progress, milestones reached, research gaps and challenges ahead identified Many branches of the quantum technologies area are gone past the proof-ofprinciple phase Further breakthroughs can only be achieved through a leap in resources and the longterm commitment coming with it. QUTE-F will have an extremely high return on investment, with a new wealth of quantum technologies capable of unprecedented tasks being thought, developed and finally commercialized for the benefit and wellness of the whole European society
stakeholders Institutional All institutions / funding agencies performing / financing research in the different quantum technologies, including Industrial (incomplete list) Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies NANO-ICT Molecular scale devices and systems Spintronics Single nano objects Disruptive photonics ARC Seibersdorf Atos Worldline Belgian Defense Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Bookham BSI - Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik Corning Crescendo Ventures D-Wave Systems Inc. DANTE Elsag ETSI - European Telecoms Standars Institute FTTH Council Europe GCHQ HP Labs IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Identity Management and Privacy Group Id Quantique SA Infineon Technologies JDSU Optical Communications groups JENOPTIK AG MagiQ Technologies, Inc. Meriton Networks METAS NEC Omnisec Ovum RHK Network Infrastructure Philips Research Pirelli QuTools Senetas Siemens AG Smals-Egov Smart Quantum STMicroelectronics Technology Strategy Board Thales Zetes PASS Zurich Research Laboratory