====== News ======
== November 2013: L'ordinateur du futur sera quantique==

Project COPHYMA (Computational, PHYsical and Mathematical approaches to complexity), supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Action de Recherche Concertée), is coordinated by the Centre for Quantum Information and Communication, and also involves the Algorithms Research Group and Discrete Mathematics Group. It started on October 2012. 

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Images de Sciences - ULB TV \\
Jérémie Roland and Mathieu Brandeho.

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== Dossier "Un nouveau monde quantique" dans La Recherche (septembre 2011) ==

Interview de Nicolas Cerf : « [[http://www.larecherche.fr/savoirs/dossier/3-nicolas-cerf-intrication-peut-etre-catalyseur-information-01-09-2011-74749|L'intrication peut être un catalyseur d'information]] ».\\ Propos recueillis par Denis Delbecq dans le mensuel **La Recherche** n°[[http://www.larecherche.fr/mensuel/455|455]] de septembre 2011 à la page 48.

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<box w=99% nodash|Security by Quantum Randomness - QuIC announces the creation of its first Spin-off company, **SQR** (November 2010)>

The Spin-off **SQR** will commercialize the outcome of our research at QuIC in the field of Information Security, Quantum Cryptography, and Quantum Physics.
See [[http://www.airbr.be/netcursus/local/detail_page_perso.asp?id=240#recherche.3|Newsletter]] of the Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles.
**SQR** is one of the 25 start-ups that have been selected, among 234 innovating companies, for the [[http://datanews.rnews.be/fr/ict/actualite/apercu/2010/11/29/le-cloud-belge-a-l-honneur/article-1194879379677.htm|European Tech Tour Association]] (ETT)
held in Lausanne on November 17-18, 2010.</box>

<box w=99% nodash|Continuous-Variable Quantum Erasure-Correcting Code (October 2010)>

QuIC researchers invented a new quantum erasure-correcting code, which has been successfully implemented experimentally in collaboration with Ulrik Andersen (Technical University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Gerd Leuchs (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany). The results have been published in Nature Photonics 4, 700 - 705 (2010) and presented in [[http://www.ulb.ac.be/intralettre/docs/index0145.html#23|ULB [intra]lettre no. 145]]. 
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== April 2008: Advanced ICT solutions for  CRYPTogaphy, Authentication and Secure Communication: software engineering assisted by quantum technology ==

  * New project CRYPTASC in the field of ICT supported by the Impulse Programme of the Brussels Capital Region aims at the development of a set of tools for information security and cryptograpfy based on the primising results of Quantum Information [[http://www.ulb.ac.be/intralettre/docs/index0094.html#22|TIC: clés cryptées]] (ULB [intra] lettre)

== French journal "La Recherche" Fall 2007 ==

  * [[http://www.larecherche.fr/special/hs/somhs29.html|Le Monde Quantique : Les nouvelles frontières de la physique]] - special issue devoted to quantum physics. Inside, see the paper on Quantum Teleportation authored by N.J. Cerf and N. Gisin.

== Books authored by QuIC Members == 

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== Marie Curie Excellence Awards 2006 ==

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Nicolas Cerf has won a Marie Curie Excellence Award \\
(ceremony at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, November 2006)


== 2005, Year of Einstein ==

  * The French journal //La Recherche// has devoted a special issue to Einstein's legacy after one century (Les Dossiers de La Recherche, February-April 2005). Inside, see paper entitled {{inmedia:LaRecherche-DossierEinstein.pdf"|L'étrange pouvoir de l'intrication quantique}} authored by N. J. Cerf and N. Gisin.



== March 2005: EC publication on Quantum Information Processing and Communications (QIPC) in Europe ==

  * The IST-FET-QIPC unit of the European Commission has collected the contributions of 58 scientists from research institutions all over Europe in order to make a broad overview of the current state of research on [[http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-eu.htm|QIPC in Europe]]. 
See paper on {{inmedia:qipc-europe-17.pdf"|Quantum cloning and key distribution with continuous variables}} by N. J. Cerf and P. Grangier.

=== La Recherche Award 2004 ===

  * Gilles Van Assche, a former Ph.D. student at QuIC, has been awarded a prize [[http://www.larecherche.fr/special/prixlr/laureats_2004.html|La Recherche 2004]] for his work on quantum cryptography in collaboration with the French researchers R. Alléaume, A. Beveratos, F. Grosshans, and J. Wenger. 
    This work, which results from a collaboration between the  
QuIC and the Institut d'Optique d'Orsay, was published in //Nature// on 16 January 2003.


===== Tutorials =====
==== In English ====

Article on //Quantum cloning and key distribution with continuous variables// by N.J. Cerf and Ph. Grangier, in: EC/IST/FET publication on [[http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-eu.htm|QIPC in Europe]], March 2005.\\
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Article on quantum cryptography by Patrick Navez and Gilles Van Assche (QuIC) for the journal Technopol IT-Scan, April 2002.\\
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Introduction chapter of the book //Quantum cryptography and secret-key distillation// by Gilles Van Assche (Cambridge University Press, 2006).\\
[[http://gva.noekeon.org/QCandSKD/QCandSKD-introduction.html|[Link] ]]
==== In French ====

Interview sur le sujet de
la //Cryptographie quantique// réalisé par Alain Dauchot
pour le magazine de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB),\\
[[http://www.ulb.ac.be/espritlibre/|Esprit Libre ]], N°18, décembre 2003 / janvier 2004, p 13.\\
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Conférence
de Nicolas Cerf et Yves Roggeman pour le Centre de Culture Scientifique 
([[http://www.ulb.ac.be/ccs/interviews/|CCS ]]) 
de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB),\\
le mardi 26 mars 2002 (14 heures): Information, transmission et sécurité : de l'arithmétique aux quanta.\\
Conférence à l'attention des classes de l'enseignement secondaire.\\
[[http://www.ulb.ac.be/ccs/interviews/cerf.html|[Link] ]]

Article de vulgarisation sur la //Cryptographie quantique//
écrit par Patrick Navez et Gilles Van Assche (QuIC) pour la revue Technopol IT-Scan, avril 2002.\\
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Article intitulé
//L'étrange pouvoir de l'intrication quantique// écrit par Nicolas Cerf et Nicolas Gisin paru dans les Dossiers de La Recherche N°18, février-avril 2005.
(Dossier spécial: L'héritage Einstein 1905-2005).\\
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Dossier sur la //Téléportation quantique// écrit par Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Nicolas Cerf et Nicolas Gisin,
paru dans le numéro de mai 2005 de La Recherche, N°386.\\
{{:inmedia:tutorials:larecherche_dossier_teleportation.pdf|[PDF file] }}

Interview sur le sujet de la //Téléportation quantique// pour
pour l'émission //Le Monde Change// du 28 avril 2005 sur Radio France International (15min 30s).\\
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Interview sur France Info le 12 mai 2005, chronique //Profession Chercheur// présentée par Marie-Odile Monchicourt (1min 55s).\\
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Interview sur France Info le 25 août 2005, chronique
//Profession Chercheur// présentée par Marie-Odile Monchicourt (1min 55s).\\
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Interview sur la Première (RTBF) le 4 décembre 2005, émission //Semences de Curieux// présentée par Jacques Olivier (44min 01s).\\
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Interview sur la Première (RTBF) le 11 décembre 2005, émission //Semences de Curieux//
présentée par Jacques Olivier (43min 40s).\\
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