Project description
Next stop: quantum internet
To prepare for the future of quantum internet, the EU-funded QIA (Quantum Internet Alliance) project will develop a blueprint for this formidable challenge. Bringing together many of Europe’s leading quantum research institutes, the alliance aims to provide unique solutions for a pan-European entanglement-based quantum internet, which will operate in parallel to the internet we have today. Pushing the frontier of technology, the alliance will see to make the impossible possible, and move on to building a European prototype quantum internet based on the Blueprint developed in this project. A Quantum Internet promises to unlock functionalities impossible on the the Internet today, such as securing access to quantum computers in the cloud so that sensitive computations can be safely run.
Objective
The future Quantum Internet will provide radically new internet applications by enabling quantum communication between any two points on Earth. The Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) targets a Blueprint for a pan-European Quantum Internet by ground-breaking technological advances, culminating in the first experimental demonstration of a fully integrated network stack running on a multi-node quantum network.
QIA will push the frontier of technology in both end nodes (trapped ion qubits, diamond NV qubits, neutral atom qubits) and quantum repeaters (rare-earth-based memories, atomic gases, quantum dots) and demonstrate the first integration of both subsystems. We will achieve entanglement and teleportation across three and four remote quantum network nodes, thereby making the leap from simple point-to-point connections to the first multi-node networks. We will demonstrate the key enabling capabilities for memory-based quantum repeaters, resulting in proof-of-principle demonstrations of elementary long-distance repeater links in the real-world, including the longest such link worldwide.
Hand in hand with hardware development, we will realize a software stack that will provide fast, reactive control and allow arbitrary high-level applications to be realized in platform-independent software. QIA's industry partners examine real world use cases of application protocols and their hardware requirements. We will validate the full stack on a small Quantum Internet by performing an elementary secure delegated quantum computation in the cloud. We will validate the design of the Blueprint architecture by a large-scale simulation of a pan-European Quantum Internet using real world fibre data. Through synergy of leading industrial, academic and RTO partners, QIA's Blueprint will provide a targeted roadmap for the main Flagship phase and set the stage for a world-leading European Quantum Internet industry.
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2628 CN Delft
Netherlands
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Participants (24)
08860 Castelldefels
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6020 Innsbruck
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1010 Wien
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80539 Munchen
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75794 Paris
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1165 Kobenhavn
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75006 Paris
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1211 Geneve
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2595 DA Den Haag
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4051 Basel
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70174 Stuttgart
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3810 193 Gloria E Vera Cruz
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94120 Fontenay-sous-Bois
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70435 Stuttgart
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82166 GRAEFELFING
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92120 Montrouge
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OX11 0QR Harwell Oxfordshire Didcot
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69190 Walldorf
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3511 EP Utrecht
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1060 Wien
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78100 Saint Germain En Laye
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6199 AG Maastricht Airpor
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75015 PARIS 15
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78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
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