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Press Dossier Press Dossier Quantum Flagship Kick-off Event Vienna, October 29-30, 2018 All information in this press dossier is Embargoed until Monday October 29th at 12:00pm CET Index The Quantum Flagship (QF) ........................................................................................................................ 3 The Goals of the QF ................................................................................................................................. 4 The Activities of the QF ........................................................................................................................ 4 The Pillars ................................................................................................................................................... 5 QSA Team - Quantum Flagship .................................................................................................................. 6 Selected projects ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Spokespersons Individual Projects ........................................................................................................ 8 Quantum Community Network ................................................................................................................. 25 The Quantum Flagship The Quantum Flagship was launched in 2018 area as well as to transfer quantum physics as one of the largest and most ambitious research from the lab to the market by means research initiatives of the European Union. of commercial applications and disruptive With a budget of €1 billion and a duration of technologies. With over 5000 researchers 10 years, the flagship brings together research from academia and industry involved in institutions, academia, industry, enterprises, this initiative throughout its lifetime, it aims and policy makers, in a joint and collaborative to create the next generation of disruptive initiative on an unprecedented scale. technologies that will impact Europe’s society, placing the region as a worldwide knowledge- The main objective of the Flagship is to based industry and technological leader in this consolidate and expand European scientific field. leadership and excellence in this research www.qt.eu 3 The Goals of the Quantum Flagship In order to consolidate Europe as a leader in Quantum technologies, the goals of the flagship are the following: Boost and drive Expand Make Europe Benefit from a competitive European a dynamic and advances in European scientific attractive region quantum quantum leadership for innovative technologies to industry to and excellence business and provide better position Europe in quantum investments solutions to as a leader research in quantum grand challenges in the future technologies in such fields as global industrial energy, health, landscape security and the environment The Quantum Flagship’s activies will be pursued by... Creating a favourable ecosystem of Coordinating public investments and innovation and business creation for strategies in quantum technologies at quantum technologies. the European level. Creating a new generation of quantum Facilitating a new level of coordination technology professionals in Europe between academia and industry through focused education at the to move advances in quantum intersection of science, engineering and technologies from the laboratory to business, and by strengthening public industry. awareness of key ideas and capabilities. Supporting growth in scientific activities Promoting the involvement of linked to quantum technologies. member regions that do not currently have a strong quantum technologies research programme. www.qt.eu 4 The Quantum Flagship Pillars The first quantum revolution– unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy, with understanding and applying physical laws potential impact in navigation, the synchronisation in the microscopic realm – resulted in of future smart networks and medical diagnostics. groundbreaking technologies such as the transistor, solid-state lighting and lasers, The developments in the leading areas of and GPS. quantum technologies can be expected to produce transformative applications with real Today, our ability to use previously untapped practical impact on ordinary people. Each of quantum effects in customised systems and these areas has its own timeline. materials is paving the way for a second revolution. New quantum sensors are expected to emerge in commercial markets in the near future, for With quantum theory now fully established, instance, whereas quantum computers are we are required to look at the world in more than a decade away. The technology a fundamentally new way: objects can tracks showing the underlying scientific and be in different states at the same time engineering milestones paving the way for (superposition) and can be deeply connected disruptive applications are based on predictions without any direct physical interaction from leading scientists in Europe. This timeline (entanglement). should be seen as illustrative and incomplete. History has proven that it is very difficult to predict There are many transformative applications, the key applications of a disruptive technology; varying from products with a relatively such technologies invariably create their own short time to market to revolutionary new applications. Section 3 provides a more detailed technologies that may require more than a description of the milestones on the technology decade of research and development. Quantum computers are expected to be able to solve, in a few minutes, problems that are unsolvable by the supercomputers of today and tomorrow. This, in turn, will seed breakthroughs in the design of chemical processes, new materials, such as higher temperature superconductors, and new paradigms in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Based on quantum coherence, data can be protected in a completely secure way that makes eavesdropping impossible. Given the explosive growth of cybercrime and espionage, this is a highly strategic capability. Quantum technologies will also give rise to simulation techniques well beyond current capabilities for material and chemical synthesis, and to clocks and sensors with www.qt.eu 5 QUANTUM Communications Quantum communication will be noticed, meaning that will help protect the increasing with quantum technology we amounts of citizens’ data can achieve the most secure transmitted digitally, for form of communication known, instance health records impossible to intercept without and financial transactions. detection. For point-to-point A typical implementation communication, this is already of quantum networks uses on the market today and will single photons. If anything be developed further into a intercepts a single photon it quantum internet. QUANTUM Simulations Closely related to quantum quantum computers. Others computers are quantum imitate the idea of a wind tunnel: simulators. They will be key to while there, small models the design of new chemicals, are used to understand the from drugs to fertilisers for future aerodynamics cars or planes, medicine and agriculture, and some quantum simulators use of new materials, such as high- simple model quantum systems temperature superconductors (such as an array of single atoms) for energy distribution without to understand systems that losses. Some quantum would be even more difficult to simulators are specialised experiment with. QUANTUM Sensing & Metrology In addition to Quantum Internet of Things. Quantum Communication, Quantum sensors use similar technologies sensors will arguably be the as quantum computers and basis for the first applications networks: they detect the of Quantum Technologies. tiniest disturbances because They provide the most they are based on e.g., single accurate measurements and electrons, the smallest possible will drastically increase the charges and magnets. Quantum performance of consumer metrology uses quantum sensors devices and services, from to define the standards for medical diagnostics and imaging e.g. time-keeping or electrical to high-precision navigation, measurements. to future applications in the www.qt.eu 6 QUANTUM Computing Quantum computers will ever before to search databases, make enormous computing solve equations, and recognise power available to solve certain patterns. They may even have problem classes. They are built the potential to train artificial from “quantum bits” (individual intelligence systems, e.g. for atoms, ions, photons or quantum digital assistants that help electronic circuits) and exploit doctors to diagnose diseases superposition and entanglement, and suggest the most promising to solve problems we could never therapy, or to optimise the routes solve otherwise. That includes, of all cars in a city simultaneously for example, processing vast to avoid traffic jams and reduce amounts of data faster than emissions. QUANTUM Basic Science The area of Basic Science have been mentioned previously will cover the research and (Quantum Communications, development of basic theories Quantum Simulations, Quantum and components, addressing Sensing and Metrology as well a foundational challenge of as Quantum Computing) to relevance for the development improve the performance of of quantum technologies in at the components or subsystems least one of the four areas that targeted in those areas. www.qt.eu 7 Coordinators of the Quantum Flagship Support Action Team The Quantum
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