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The Quantum Innovators workshop will bring together the most promising young researchers in quantum physics and engineering for a three-day conference aimed at exploring the frontier of our field.

Chang Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

As a standard method for producing correlated photon pairs (biphotons), spontaneous parametric down-conversion in nonlinear crystal usually has a wide bandwidth (terahertz) and very short coherence time (pico-seconds). Within spontaneous four-wave mixing process in cold atom ensembles, here we present a method for producing narrow-band (megahertz) Stokes and anti-Stokes paired photons.

Erika Andersson, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences Heriot-Watt University

Digital signatures ensure that messages cannot be forged or tampered with. They are widely used to provide security for electronic communications, for example in financial transactions and electronic mail. Importantly, signed messages are also transferrable, meaning that if one recipient accepts a message as genuine, then she is guaranteed that others will also accept the same message if it is forwarded.

Electra Eleftheriadou, University of Strathclyde

In practical applications of communication schemes it is often necessary to amplify the transmitted signals. Because of the intrinsic noise due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, a quantum signal requires an amplification process which is different than the one used for classical signals.

Feihu Xu, University of Toronto

In theory, quantum key distribution (QKD) provides information-theoretic security based on the laws of physics. Owing to the imperfections of real-life implementations, however, there is a big gap between the theory and practice of QKD. This gap has been recently exploited by several quantum hacking activities.

Gregor Weihs, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck

For fundamental tests of quantum physics as well as for quantum communications non-classical states of light are an important tool. In our research we focus on developing semiconductor-based and integrated sources of single photons and entangled photon pairs.

Jérémie Roland - Université Libre de Bruxelles

Genda Gu, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Quantum algorithms exponentially faster than their classical equivalents exist for code breaking, quantum chemistry, knot theory, group theory, and are speculated to exist for diverse applications including machine learning and artificial intelligence. I review these applications and the current state of knowledge on how to build a practical quantum computer.