Quantum Communications for ALL

Project Information

QCALL

Grant agreement ID: 675662

DOI

10.3030/675662

Project closed

EC signature date 10 August 2016

Start date 1 December 2016

End date 31 May 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 3 924 884,52

EU contribution

€ 3 924 884,52

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Other (9)

Outreach Del. 1

Outreach Day 1: local public-science events

Overall Recruitment

To be managed by Recruitment Committee

Training Del. 7

PhD awards for graduating ESRs

Training Del. 3

School on Quantum Secure Communications

D&I Del. 3

Conference Presentations

D&I Del. 2

Final Network Symposium

Outreach Del. 4

Outreach Day 3: QCALL Open Day

D&I Del. 1

Early-Stage Researchers Conference

Training Del. 4

School on Quantum Communications Networks

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Outreach Del. 3

Outreach Day 2: Science film festival

Website Completion

To be developed by professional designers

Outreach Del. 2

Story of the month on website

Documents, reports (2)

Scientific Del. 8

Roadmap for future quantum networks

D&I Del. 4

Publications in high-impact journals

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (53)

Resource-effective quantum key distribution: a field trial in Padua city center

Author(s): Marco Avesani, Luca Calderaro, Giulio Foletto, Costantino Agnesi, Francesco Picciariello, Francesco B. L. Santagiustina, Alessia Scriminich, Andrea Stanco, Francesco Vedovato, Mujtaba Zahidy, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 46/12, 2021, Page(s) 2848, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.422890

Countermeasure Against Quantum Hacking Using Detection Statistics

Author(s): Gaëtan Gras, Davide Rusca, Hugo Zbinden, Félix Bussières
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 15/3, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034052

Semi-Device-Independent Heterodyne-Based Quantum Random-Number Generator

Author(s): Marco Avesani, Hamid Tebyanian, Paolo Villoresi, Giuseppe Vallone
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 15/3, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034034

Practical decoy-state method for twin-field quantum key distribution

Author(s): Federico Grasselli, Marcos Curty
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/7, 2019, Page(s) 073001, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab2b00

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution with Fully Discrete Phase Randomization

Author(s): Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, Lewis Wooltorton, Mohsen Razavi
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 15/1, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.014016

Entropy Bounds for Multiparty Device-Independent Cryptography

Author(s): Federico Grasselli, Gláucia Murta, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Published in: PRX Quantum, Issue 2/1, 2021, ISSN 2691-3399
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/prxquantum.2.010308

Quantum key distribution with flawed and leaky sources

Author(s): Margarida Pereira, Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Published in: npj Quantum Information, Issue 5/1, 2019, ISSN 2056-6387
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-019-0180-9

Optical control of single-photon negative-feedback avalanche diode detector

Author(s): Gaëtan Gras, Nigar Sultana, Anqi Huang, Thomas Jennewein, Félix Bussières, Vadim Makarov, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 127/9, 2020, Page(s) 094502, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5140824

Simple quantum key distribution with qubit-based synchronization and a self-compensating polarization encoder

Author(s): Costantino Agnesi, Marco Avesani, Luca Calderaro, Andrea Stanco, Giulio Foletto, Mujtaba Zahidy, Alessia Scriminich, Francesco Vedovato, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi
Published in: Optica, Issue 7/4, 2020, Page(s) 284, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: OSA Publishing
DOI: 10.1364/optica.381013

Asymptotic Security of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with a Discrete Modulation

Author(s): Shouvik Ghorai, Philippe Grangier, Eleni Diamanti, Anthony Leverrier
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 9/2, 2019, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.9.021059

Optical and spin manipulation of non-Kramers rare-earth ions in a weak magnetic field for quantum memory applications

Author(s): J. Etesse, A. Holzäpfel, A. Ortu, M. Afzelius
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 103/2, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.022618

Experimental quantum conference key agreement

Author(s): Massimiliano Proietti, Joseph Ho, Federico Grasselli, Peter Barrow, Mehul Malik, Alessandro Fedrizzi
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7/23, 2021, Page(s) eabe0395, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe0395

Practical Quantum Key Distribution That is Secure Against Side Channels

Author(s): Álvaro Navarrete, Margarida Pereira, Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 15/3, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034072

Self-testing quantum random-number generator based on an energy bound

Author(s): Davide Rusca, Thomas van Himbeeck, Anthony Martin, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Weixu Shi, Stefano Pironio, Nicolas Brunner, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/6, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.062338

Quantum key distribution with correlated sources

Author(s): Margarida Pereira, Go Kato, Akihiro Mizutani, Marcos Curty, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/37, 2020, Page(s) eaaz4487, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4487

Finite-key analysis for memory-assisted decoy-state quantum key distribution

Author(s): Guillermo Currás Lorenzo, Mohsen Razavi
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 22/10, 2020, Page(s) 103005, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abb16b

Beating the repeaterless bound with adaptive measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

Author(s): Róbert Trényi, Koji Azuma, Marcos Curty
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/11, 2019, Page(s) 113052, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab54aa

Zero-error attack against coherent-one-way quantum key distribution

Author(s): Róbert Trényi, Marcos Curty
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 23/9, 2021, Page(s) 093005, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac1e41

A trusted node–free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network

Author(s): Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Djeylan Aktas, Sören Wengerowsky, Martin Lončarić, Sebastian Philipp Neumann, Bo Liu, Thomas Scheidl, Guillermo Currás Lorenzo, Željko Samec, Laurent Kling, Alex Qiu, Mohsen Razavi, Mario Stipčević, John G. Rarity, Rupert Ursin
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/36, 2020, Page(s) eaba0959, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0959

Efficient Time-Bin Encoding for Practical High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Author(s): Ilaria Vagniluca, Beatrice Da Lio, Davide Rusca, Daniele Cozzolino, Yunhong Ding, Hugo Zbinden, Alessandro Zavatta, Leif K. Oxenløwe, Davide Bacco
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 14/1, 2020, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.14.014051

Experimental quantum key distribution beyond the repeaterless secret key capacity

Author(s): M. Minder, M. Pittaluga, G. L. Roberts, M. Lucamarini, J. F. Dynes, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 13/5, 2019, Page(s) 334-338, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0377-7

Finite-key analysis of loss-tolerant quantum key distribution based on random sampling theory

Author(s): Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, Álvaro Navarrete, Margarida Pereira, Kiyoshi Tamaki
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 104/1, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.012406

Simple Efficient Decoders for Quantum Key Distribution Over Quantum Repeaters with Encoding

Author(s): Yumang Jing, Mohsen Razavi
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 15/4, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.044027

Tight finite-key security for twin-field quantum key distribution

Author(s): Guillermo Currás-Lorenzo, Álvaro Navarrete, Koji Azuma, Go Kato, Marcos Curty, Mohsen Razavi
Published in: npj Quantum Information, Issue 7/1, 2021, ISSN 2056-6387
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-020-00345-3

Simultaneous coherence enhancement of optical and microwave transitions in solid-state electronic spins

Author(s): Antonio Ortu, Alexey Tiranov, Sacha Welinski, Florian Fröwis, Nicolas Gisin, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Mikael Afzelius
Published in: Nature Materials, Issue 17/8, 2018, Page(s) 671-675, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0138-x

Simple and high-speed polarization-based QKD

Author(s): Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Davide Rusca, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 112/5, 2018, Page(s) 051108, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5016931

Finite-key analysis for the 1-decoy state QKD protocol

Author(s): Davide Rusca, Alberto Boaron, Fadri Grünenfelder, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 112/17, 2018, Page(s) 171104, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5023340

Simple 2.5 GHz time-bin quantum key distribution

Author(s): Alberto Boaron, Boris Korzh, Raphael Houlmann, Gianluca Boso, Davide Rusca, Stuart Gray, Ming-Jun Li, Daniel Nolan, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 112/17, 2018, Page(s) 171108, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5027030

Finite-key effects in multipartite quantum key distribution protocols

Author(s): Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 20/11, 2018, Page(s) 113014, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aaec34

Patterning-effect mitigating intensity modulator for secure decoy-state quantum key distribution

Author(s): G. L. Roberts, M. Pittaluga, M. Minder, M. Lucamarini, J. F. Dynes, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 43/20, 2018, Page(s) 5110, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.43.005110

Spectroscopic study of hyperfine properties in Yb 3 + 171 : Y 2

Author(s): Alexey Tiranov, Antonio Ortu, Sacha Welinski, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Nicolas Gisin, Mikael Afzelius
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 98/19, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.98.195110

Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber

Author(s): Alberto Boaron, Gianluca Boso, Davide Rusca, Cédric Vulliez, Claire Autebert, Misael Caloz, Matthieu Perrenoud, Gaëtan Gras, Félix Bussières, Ming-Jun Li, Daniel Nolan, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 121/19, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.190502

Quantum repeaters in space

Author(s): Carlo Liorni, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 23/5, 2021, Page(s) 053021, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abfa63

Experimental test of sequential weak measurements for certified quantum randomness extraction

Author(s): Giulio Foletto, Matteo Padovan, Marco Avesani, Hamid Tebyanian, Paolo Villoresi, Giuseppe Vallone
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 103/6, 2021, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.062206

Wavelength assignment in quantum access networks with hybrid wireless-fiber links

Author(s): Sima Bahrani, Osama Elmabrok, Guillermo Currás Lorenzo, Mohsen Razavi
Published in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Issue 36/3, 2019, Page(s) B99, ISSN 0740-3224
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/josab.36.000b99

Asymmetric twin-field quantum key distribution

Author(s): Federico Grasselli, Álvaro Navarrete, Marcos Curty
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/11, 2019, Page(s) 113032, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab520e

Upper Security Bounds for Coherent-One-Way Quantum Key Distribution

Author(s): Javier González-Payo, Róbert Trényi, Weilong Wang, Marcos Curty
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 125/26, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.260510

Real-time interferometric quantum random number generation on chip

Author(s): Thomas Roger, Taofiq Paraiso, Innocenzo De Marco, Davide G. Marangon, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Published in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Issue 36/3, 2019, Page(s) B137, ISSN 0740-3224
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/josab.36.00b137

Fast self-testing quantum random number generator based on homodyne detection

Author(s): Davide Rusca, Hamid Tebyanian, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 116/26, 2020, Page(s) 264004, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0011479

Performance and security of 5 GHz repetition rate polarization-based quantum key distribution

Author(s): Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Davide Rusca, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 117/14, 2020, Page(s) 144003, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0021468

A modulator-free quantum key distribution transmitter chip

Author(s): Taofiq K. Paraïso, Innocenzo De Marco, Thomas Roger, Davide G. Marangon, James F. Dynes, Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Published in: npj Quantum Information, Issue 5/1, 2019, ISSN 2056-6387
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-019-0158-7

Quantum Entropy Model of an Integrated Quantum-Random-Number-Generator Chip

Author(s): Gaëtan Gras, Anthony Martin, Jeong Woon Choi, Félix Bussières
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 15/5, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.054048

600-km repeater-like quantum communications with dual-band stabilization

Author(s): Mirko Pittaluga, Mariella Minder, Marco Lucamarini, Mirko Sanzaro, Robert I. Woodward, Ming-Jun Li, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 15/7, 2021, Page(s) 530-535, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-021-00811-0

Composable security of two-way continuous-variable quantum key distribution without active symmetrization

Author(s): Shouvik Ghorai, Eleni Diamanti, Anthony Leverrier
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 99/1, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.99.012311

Quantum Conference Key Agreement: A Review

Author(s): Gláucia Murta, Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Published in: Advanced Quantum Technologies, Issue 3/11, 2020, Page(s) 2000025, ISSN 2511-9044
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/qute.202000025

Satellite-based links for quantum key distribution: beam effects and weather dependence

Author(s): Carlo Liorni, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/9, 2019, Page(s) 093055, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab41a2

Security proof for a simplified Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol

Author(s): Davide Rusca, Alberto Boaron, Marcos Curty, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 98/5, 2018, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.98.052336

Direct measurement of the recovery time of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Author(s): Claire Autebert, Gaëtan Gras, Emna Amri, Matthieu Perrenoud, Misael Caloz, Hugo Zbinden, Félix Bussières
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 128/7, 2020, Page(s) 074504, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0007976

Quantum Keyless Private Communication Versus Quantum Key Distribution for Space Links

Author(s): A. Vázquez-Castro, D. Rusca, H. Zbinden
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 16/1, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: America Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.16.014006

Beating direct transmission bounds for quantum key distribution with a multiple quantum memory station

Author(s): Róbert Trényi, Norbert Lütkenhaus
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 101/1, 2020, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.101.012325

Real-time operation of a multi-rate, multi-protocol quantum key distribution transmitter

Author(s): Innocenzo De Marco, Robert I. Woodward, George L. Roberts, Taofiq K. Paraïso, Thomas Roger, Mirko Sanzaro, Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan, Andrew J. Shields
Published in: Optica, Issue 8/6, 2021, Page(s) 911, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.423517

Conference key agreement with single-photon interference

Author(s): Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/12, 2019, Page(s) 123002, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab573e

Quantum Key Distribution Over Quantum Repeaters with Encoding: Using Error Detection as an Effective Postselection Tool

Author(s): Yumang Jing, Daniel Alsina, Mohsen Razavi
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 14/6, 2020, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.14.064037