Projects

HIDEAS

project name: High Dimensional Entangled Systems

initiating country: The European Union

Framework Programme: FP7       programme area: ICT – Information and Communication Technologies       contract type: CP – Collaborative Project

contract/proposal/call number: 221906

status: active

start date: October 2008       duration: 36 months       projected finish date: October 2011

Keywords

Fields of Research:
  Lasers and Quantum Electronics
  Quantum Information, Computation and Communication
  Quantum Optics
  Nanoelectronics

keywords: quantum communication

Project Budget

total budget: € 4,575,602

Participants

Note that the follow people may not represent the full extent of the consortium. FEAST has tried to identify the Australian participants, and their collaborators (or coordinator), within the project. Also note that Australian participation may not necessarily be on a formal level.

nameorganisationstate or country
Prof Hans BachorANU ACT, Australia
Luigi Alberto LugiatoUniversita degli Studi dell’Insubria Italy

Further information

summary:
  HIDEAS aims at a breakthrough in the information capacity of Quantum Communication (QC), well beyond the standard single-mode approach, by exploiting the intrinsic multi-modal and multivariate character of the radiation field. Our long term vision is that of a broadband Quantum Communication, where all the physical properties of the photons are utilized to store information. Working at the quantum level requires: i) to produce quantum entanglement of light in high dimensional and multivariate spaces and ii) to create multimode quantum interfaces between light and matter in order to store high-D quantum states of light in long-lived matter degrees of freedom. Beneficial impacts will be also on Quantum Metrology.
 
  As crucial steps towards these objectives we propose five research lines:
  WP1 aims at bringing to the quantum realm the spectacular progress achieved by the introduction of frequency combs in the classical domain.
  WP2 aims at realizing sources of multimode spatially entangled light appropriate for paving the way to parallel quantum communication and information processing.
  WP3 aims at realizing a very high-D entanglement between twin photons produced by parametric down- conversion (PDC). It focuses on the conjugate variables angle and optical angular momentum (OAM), providing a larger alphabet for QC and a more robust non-locality.
  WP4 explores the non-factorable spatio-temporal X-structure of light entanglement in PDC, opening an avenue that offers unique access to the full broad band of PDC.
  WP5 exploits various forms of multimode light-matter entanglement, to realize multi-modal light-atom quantum interfaces and a parallel quantum memory for light (quantum hologram), with resolution and memory capacity exceeding those of classical holograms.
 
  The consortium gathers an unparalleled expertise in measuring and manipulating OAM, in generating/controlling quantum effects in multi-mode PDC and in realizing light-matter quantum interfaces.
 
  Participants
  SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY - SPSU RUSSIAN FEDERATION
  UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE - LILLE I FRANCE
  UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 FRANCE
  UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW UNITED KINGDOM
  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET DENMARK
  THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA
  CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE SCIENZE FISICHE DELLA MATERIA ITALY
  UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN. NETHERLANDS
  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) FRANCE
  UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE UNITED KINGDOM
 
  Source: Cordis