Spatial Mode Correction of Single Photons Using Machine Learning

Smart quantum technologies for secure communication

Researchers from Louisiana State University have introduced a smart quantum technology for the spatial mode correction of single photons. The team has exploited the self-learning and self-evolving features of artificial neural networks to correct the distorted spatial profile of single photons.

New quantum-proof cryptography scheme

Here is a very interesting article written by Alec Edgington, Cameron Foreman and Duncan Jones of Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC). In this paper, the team explains how at CQC they adopted a revolutionary approach to […]

Experimental quantum homomorphic encryption

Experimental quantum homomorphic encryption

A team of researchers at Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) and Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore (CQT), has demonstrated homomorphic-encrypted quantum computing with unitary transformations of individual qubits, as well as multi-qubit quantum walk computations using single-photon states and non-birefringent integrated optics.

Quantum effects help minimize communication flaws

A collaboration between the Universities of Hong-Kong, Grenoble and Vienna, as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences has revealed novel techniques to reduce noise in quantum communication. The primary approach to overcome these noise […]

Machine Learning helps Quantum Key Distribution

Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) enables information-theoretically secure key exchange between two parties using the continuous-variable properties of the quantized electromagnetic light field. The secret key rate of a CV-QKD system is limited by excess […]

Certified Quantum Random Numbers from untrusted light

A team of researchers from Germany, Russia and UK has designed and experimentally demonstrated an ultrafast optical Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) that uses a totally untrusted photonic source.  While considering completely general quantum attacks, […]

Drones to create local quantum networks

A team of Chinese researchers has used drones to create a prototype of a small airborne quantum network and to send entangled particles from one drone to another and from a drone to the ground. […]

New Quantum Random Number Generation improvement

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has made security analysis and improvement of Source Independent Quantum Random Number Generators (SI-QRNGs) with imperfect devices. By studying the actual characteristics of […]

High-dimensional quantum teleportation

A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has demonstrated the teleportation of high-dimensional states in a three-dimensional six-photon system. Compared with two-dimensional systems, high-dimensional system quantum networks have the advantages […]

Better security proofs for QKD protocols

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols are performed by sending a sizeable, but finite, number of quantum signals between the distant parties involved. Many QKD experiments, however, predict their achievable key rates using asymptotic formulas, which […]

Securing a wireless link with MDI-QKD

Relying in part on techniques used to sharpen up images from ground-based telescopes, researchers in China have implemented a type of secure quantum communications protocol—known as measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD)—across a wireless link connecting […]

Quantum teleportation with 90% accuracy over 44 km

Researchers at California Institute of Technology have achieved conditional quantum teleportation of time-bin qubits at the telecommunication wavelength of 1536.5 nm. They measured teleportation fidelities of ≥ 90% that are consistent with an analytical model […]

Experimental Bell Tests with Reinforcement Learning

Terra Quantum, a Swiss startup, and University of Basel have developed a combination of reinforcement learning and simulated annealing for setting up efficient Bell tests useful for quantum cryptography.  Finding optical setups producing measurement results […]

IBM Cloud delivers Quantum-Safe Cryptography

IBM today announced a series of cloud services and technologies designed to help clients maintain the highest available level of cryptographic key encryption protection to help protect existing data in the Cloud and prepare for future threats that […]

Hybrid quantum-classical scheme for prime factorization

Researchers have reported a quantum-classical hybrid scheme for factorization of bi-prime numbers (which are odd and square-free) using IBM’s quantum processors. The hybrid scheme has involved both classical optimization techniques and adiabatic quantum optimization techniques, […]

Hybrid quantum-classical scheme for prime factorization

Researchers have reported a quantum-classical hybrid scheme for factorization of bi-prime numbers (which are odd and square-free) using IBM’s quantum processors. The hybrid scheme has involved both classical optimization techniques and adiabatic quantum optimization techniques, […]

A modem for a future Quantum Internet

The interface between local quantum devices and light quanta that enable the remote transmission of highly sensitive quantum information is a key topic of quantum communications. The Otto-Hahn group “Quantum Networks” at the Max-Planck-Institute of […]

Using quantum properties of light to transmit information

Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an important step toward developing a communications network that exchanges information across long distances by using photons. The research team has designed a nanoscale […]