ISSN
1729-5254
Quantum
Information Project 2010 New
Trends in Quantum Information
Objectives of the Project: Realizing the immense promise held out by QIS, on the one hand,
and the numerous challenges that need to be surmounted by the physics
community before the power and versatility of this resource can be harnessed
into productive activities, on the other, the EJTP team finds it an opportune
time to come up with a Special EJTP Issue dedicated exclusively to QIS. This
would provide researchers with a collective platform for presenting their
findings to the extended readership within a short gestation. This project would relate to all facets of QIS including, in
particular, but not restricted to (a) Quantum
Information Theory & Quantum
Entropy (b) Quantum
Entanglement, Decoherence & Quantum Measurements (c) Quantum
Computation & Algorithms (d) Quantum Error
Corrections (e) Quantum
Cryptography (f) Fundamental
Issues in QIS e.g. Bell Inequalities, Nonlocality etc. (g) Experimental
Issues in QIS (h) Quantum
Communications (i) QIS &
Fundamental Physics e.g. QFT, GTR, Black Hole Dynamics & Cosmology. Processing
information is what all physical systems do.
Quantum computation is not just a technological promise, but the most
challenging test for the conceptual problems in
Quantum Mechanics. We could say that Schrödinger's
cat has been tamed and is leading us along the most charming paths of
the physical world. Anyway, NP-complete problems appear impregnable even by
traditional quantum computing. All that sounds
paradoxical considering that the local and classical world emerges from the
non-local quantum one, which permeates any aspect of the physical world. Turing Machine is a computation
model strongly connected to classical, local and deterministic
physics. So the proper question is whether the Turing model is really the
best scheme for quantum information. In other words, Quantum Turing Machines
constrain the quantum system to yes/no answers, whereas the real
computational vocation of QM would be to use superposition and non-locality
to obtain probabilistic oracles beyond Turing barrier performance. In this
volume we have tried to provide a panorama of these trends. On one hand the
physics of traditional, Turing-based Quantum Computing - crucial to clarify
the old foundational problems and surely decisive in the future in
nanotechnology and quantum communication - , on the other the possibility of
a broader concept of quantum information which will lead to a new pact
between quantum dissipative field theory and the concept of computation in
physical systems
Quantum Communication Workshop 2010 QCW2010 is a two-day workshop on theoretical and experimental
aspects of quantum communication and quantum cryptography. This event
is organized by UNIK - University Graduate Center
of Kjeller, at the Kjeller Technology
Cluster, located half-way between the Oslo Airport and downtown Oslo in
Norway. QCW2010 will focus on practical advanced solutions for
quantum communication and cryptography currently under
development in European and world-wide partnerships involving academic
research centers, commercial companies and public
consortia.
Quantum
communication technologies developed in the trusted
environment of experimental laboratories have recently addressed industrialization
and commercialization, thus facing expected and unexpected challenges:
from security vs. business requirements and conformity
to standardization and legal specifications, to field operational
tests under malevolent attacks. Aiming to
provide network security for communications, quantum
fiber-based and free-space technologies are both becoming a
reality across optical networks, and will thus be discussed at QCW2010 by experts in the field within a
global perspective. QCW2010 -
Program and Abstracts Organization and Sponsorship
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