====== Research ======
===== Funding =====
=== European Projects ===
- Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing and Communication (EQUIP)
Grant: IST-1999-11053
Duration: from 01/01/2000 to 31/12/2002
- Consortium for Hamiltonian Intra-molecular Computing
(CHIC)
Grant: IST-2001-33578
Duration: from 01/07/2002 to 30/06/2006
- Resources for Quantum Information
(RESQ)
Grant: IST-2001-37559
Duration: from 01/01/2003 to 31/12/2005
- Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography (SECOQC)
Integrated Project in FP6
Grant: IST-2002-506813
Duration: from 01/04/2004 to 31/03/2008
- Continuous Variable Quantum Information with Atoms and Light (COVAQIAL)
Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) in FP6 (coordinated by N. J. Cerf)
Grant: FP6-511004
Duration: from 01/09/2004 to 31/08/2007
- Qubit Applications (QAP)
Integrated Project in FP6
Duration: from 01/11/2005 to 31/10/2009
- Computing with Mesoscopic Photonic and Atomic States (COMPAS)
ICT FET-Open STREP project in FP7 (coordinated by N. J. Cerf)
Grant: FP7-ICT-212008
Duration: from 01/04/2008 to 31/03/2011
- Quantum Algorithmics (QALGO)
ICT FET-Proactive STREP project in FP7
Grant: FP7-ICT-2011.9.9 - Grant No 600700
Duration: from 01/05/2013 to 30/04/2016
- Quantum Simulation on a Photonic Chip (QUCHIP)
ICT FET-PROACTIVE project in H2020
Duration: from 01/03/2015 to 28/02/2018
=== European Networks ===
- Quantum Information Processing and Communications Network of Excellence (QUIPROCONE)
Grant: IST-1999-29064
Duration: 3 years (2000-2003)
- Structuring the European Research Area within Quantum Information
Science and Technology (ERA-Pilot QIST)
Belgian partner in this network: FNRS
Duration: from 01/02/2005 to 31/01/2007
- Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe (QUROPE)
Coordination Action in FP6
Duration: from 01/09/2006 to 31/08/2009
- High-Performance Coherent Quantum Communications (HIPERCOM)
Project coordinated by N. J. Cerf; part of the CHISTERA programme (European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net, FP7)
Duration: from 01/09/2011 to 31/08/2014
- Quantum Technologies for Europe (QUTE-EUROPE)
Coordination Action in FP7 (N. J. Cerf is member of the Advisory Board)
Duration: from 01/02/2013 to 31/01/2016
- Quantum algorithms and applications (QuantAlgo)
Project coordinated by J. Roland; part of the QuantERA programme (H2020 ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies)
Duration: from 01/02/2018 to 31/01/2022
- Short-Range Optical Quantum Connections (ShoQC)
Project in QuantERA programme (H2020 ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies)
Duration: from 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2023
- Applications and Hardware for Photonic Quantum Information Processing (AppQInfo)
Innovative Training Network (ITN), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme
Duration: from 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2025
- Quantum algorithms for optimization (QOPT)
Project in the QuantERA programme (H2020 ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies)
Duration: from 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2024
=== International Foundations ===
- Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation programme
(QIT)
Grant: European Science Foundation
PI: Nicolas Cerf
Duration: from 01/01/1999 to 31/07/2004
- The Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS)
Grant: The John Templeton Foundation
PI: Ognyan Oreshkov
Duration: from 01/12/2019 to 31/08/2022
=== Crédits Fédéraux: Pôles d'Attractions Interuniversitaires (PAI) ===
- Photons and photonics : From basic physics to new system concepts (PHOTON)
Grant: Interuniversitary Attraction Pole nº V-18
Duration: 5 years (2002-2006)
- Photonics@be
Grant: Interuniversitary Attraction Pole nº VI-10
Duration: 5 years (2007-2011)
- Photonics@be: Towards smart photonics in 2020
Grant: Interuniversitary Attraction Pole nº VII-35
Duration: 5 years (04/2012-03/2017)
- Creating highly entangled quantum states in the NISQ era
Excellence of Science (EOS) programme - call 2021
Duration : 2022 - 2025
=== Crédits de la Communauté Française de Belgique: Action de Recherche Concertée (ARC) ===
- Théorie quantique de l'information et de la communication
Grant: ARC nº 00/05-251
PI: Nicolas Cerf
Duration: from 01/10/2000 to 30/09/2005
- Unifying COmputational, PHYsical, and MAthematical approaches to complexity (COPHYMA)
Grant: ARC nº AUWB-2012-12
PI: Jérémie Roland
Duration: from 01/10/2012 to 30/09/2017
- Quantum Physics and Information with Indefinite Causal Structure
Grant: ARC Consolidation - 4.110.H.000029
PI: Ognyan Oreshkov
Duration: from 01/09/2018 to 31/08/2022
=== Crédits des Fonds Associés du FNRS ===
- Information quantique et aspects fondamentaux de la mécanique quantique
Grant: FRFC
Duration: from 01/01/2000 to 31/12/2001
- Aspects fondamentaux de la mécanique quantique: information quantique
Grant: FRFC
Duration: from 01/01/2002 to 31/12/2007
- Théorie de l'information quantique, ses ramifications et applications
Grant: FRFC
Duration: from 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2011
- Intrication quantique, états symétriques
Grant: FRFC
Duration: from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2014
- Gaussian quantum information
Grant: PDR T.0199.13
Duration: from 01/07/2013 to 30/06/2017
- Quantum Communication and Cryptography in Continuous Time (QUICTIME)
Grant: MIS F.4515.16
Duration: from 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2017
- Non-Gaussian states and processes in quantum information science
Grant: PDR T.0224.18
Duration: from 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2021
=== Crédits de la Région Bruxelloise ===
- Cryptographie quantique; sécurité et applications potentielles
Grant: LINK 1999-2003
Industrial partnership: Proton World international s.a.
Duration: from 01/07/1999 to 31/06/2003
- Étude prospective de la cryptographie quantique à haut
débit et de ses possibilitées de déploiement en région bruxelloise
Grant: Prospective Research for Brussels, call 2006
Researcher: E. Karpov
Duration: from 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2009
- Advanced ICT solutions to CYPTography,
Authentication, and Secure Communication: software engineering assisted by quantum technology (CRYPTASC)
Grant: ICT Impulse Program, call 2006
Duration: from 01/09/2007 to 31/08/2010; second phase from 01/09/2010 to 31/08/2013
- Security by Quantum
Randomness (SeQuR)
Grant: Spin-off in Brussels, call 2007
Researcher: L.-Ph. Lamoureux
Duration: from 01/02/2008 to 31/01/2012
- Security-driven engineering of Cloud-based Applications
(SeCloud)
Grant: 2015-PFS-ICT-6 SecurIT: Innoviris strategic platform
Duration: from 01/09/2015 to 31/08/2018