On Friday the 15th of November, the 12th QSC General Assembly was held in Leiden at the unique Scheltema venue. The Scheltema building, which served as a blanket factory in the 19th century, provided an industrial atmosphere for what proved to be an interesting day of talks and collaboration between the different QSC branches.
De veelbelovende toepassingen van quantumcomputers zijn nog toekomstmuziek. Met Europees geld komt er binnenkort ook een in Amsterdam, om praktijkervaring op te doen. „In Nederland behoren we echt tot de wereldtop.”
Bron: Dorine Schenk, NRC, 6 november 2024
Het is de eerste stap richting een langgekoesterde droom: Nederlandse natuurkundigen hebben de eerste verbindingen gelegd voor een werkend quantuminternet in de Randstad. Ook in China en de VS zijn onderzoekers druk bezig met de aanleg van zo’n netwerk.
Source: George van Hal, Volkskrant, 31 oktober 2024
The quantum internet, once built, will bring us unbreakable encryption in daily communication, secure financial transactions, and so much more. Next to ultimate cybersecurity, it is the potential for so much more in particular that motivates Stephanie Wehner (QuTech, TU Delft) to lead the effort in creating the first prototype of the quantum internet.
We cordially invite you to attend the PhD thesis defences of René Allerstorfer on October 28th and Chen Yanlin on November 21st, 2024 in the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam.
QuSoft is delighted to announce that Professor Matthias Christandl has been appointed as the 2024 Turing Chair. A leading researcher in quantum information theory, Professor Christandl is visiting Amsterdam at various intervals between October 2024 and early 2025. His appointment as Turing Chair promises to foster a diverse range of academic activities, discussions, and collaborations, enriching the QuSoft and Amsterdam scientific communities.
He is hosted at QuSoft and CWI.
Wetenschapsjournalist Adriaan ter Braack en presentator Sander Denneman nemen de luisteraar mee op toegankelijke reis door Quantumland. Ze worden daarbij bij de les gehouden door quantum-expert Aletta Meinsma. Gemaakt door de Universiteit van Nederland i.s.m. Quantum Delta NL.
Researchers at QuTech developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group published their demonstration of hopping spins in Nature Communications and their work on somersaulting spins in Science.
Source: QuTech
Three quantum-safe cryptography methods have been standardised for worldwide use since this week. Léo Ducas co-designed the two primary PQC methods selected for this standardisation. Ducas is part of the Cryptology group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and is also professor of Mathematical cryptology at Leiden University.
Source: CWI and Leiden University, Mathematical Institute
In the coming years, TU Delft will invest in the renewal and improvement of the TU Delft Campus. One of the developments in this initiative is the new building for QuTech, the mission-driven quantum institute of TU Delft and TNO. On May 14, 2024, the final design was officially approved. This new building contributes to TU Delft’s ambition to have a CO2-neutral, circular, and climate-adaptive campus by 2030. The new building is expected to be operational by 2028.
Onze IT-infrastructuur is alleen maar onveiliger geworden. Sterke encryptie is broodnodig, aldus Ot van Daalen, promovendus aan het Instituut voor Informatierecht aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Christian Schaffner (Qusoft) was interviewed in a BNR podcast, discussing the impact of quantum computers on crytography and in particular on crypto currencies on October 31, 2019.
What is quantum supremacy, how does one demonstrate quantum supremacy and why is this such an important milestone ? A blog of Qutech by Adriaan Rol.
An invitation to contribute to a Gender Equality Survey that was prepared by a Gender Working Group of the Quantum Technology Flagship to collect the community’s views on gender equality.
If you take just one piece of information from this blog: Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once.
On Friday the 13th of December, 2019 the Quantum Software Consortium held its first Junior Day. The idea was to create a get-together for all young quantum information and computation minded researchers in the Netherlands.
A great story about the impact of the National Agenda for Quantum Technology for the Netherlands (in Dutch): https://www.consultancy.nl/nieuws/26117/hoe-blijft-nederland-mondiaal-koploper-in-quantumtechnologie
Het kabinet investeert de komende vijf jaar 23,5 miljoen euro in quantumtechnologie, één van de sleuteltechnologieën met groot potentieel voor de toekomst. Het bedrag is bedoeld als financieel startschot van de uitvoering van de Nationale Agenda Quantum Technologie, die in september 2019 aan het kabinet werd aangeboden.
The Quantum Training and Junior Day (31/3 and 1/4) have been cancelled, because of the corona virus.
Bluetooth is watching you. De bezwaren nemen toe tegen de corona-apps van kabinet. Privacy-organisaties en prominente journalisten, schrijvers en experts hebben een pamflet opgesteld met een serie voorwaarden waaraan de nieuwe controle-app zou moeten voldoen.
Quantum researcher Harry Buhrman joins the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The KNAW is the most relevant Dutch society of top scientists. Together with seventeen other researchers, Buhrman will be installed as a new Academy member on September 14, 2020. Buhrman is affiliated with the CWI and the University of Amsterdam. He is also director and founder of research institute QuSoft, which focuses on the development of quantum software and applications of quantum computers and quantum networks.
Professor Barbara Terhal, group leader at QuTech and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science of TU Delft, has been appointed as new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Barbara Terhal is a member of the Gender & Diversity Council of Quantum Software Consortium.
Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven and European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel launched Europe’s first public quantum computing platform: ‘Quantum Inspire’. The platform was developed by Delft-based QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO. Quantum Inspire makes the quantum computer accessible to everyone and is the first in the world to use a quantum processor made of scalable ‘spin qubits’.
Shell cooperates with theoretical physicists and chemists of Leiden University to research how quantum computer algorithms can help simulate complex molecules.
De quantumhuiscomputer is nog ver weg. Lieven Vandersypen, hoogleraar QuTech, op de campus van de TU Delft, werkt aan technologie voor quantumcomputers. Lieven Vandersypen wordt er directeur.
Jana Sotáková, PhD student at Qusoft and UvA, won the best-paper award at the IACR flagship conference CRYPTO 2020 for her article "Breaking the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem for Class Group Actions Using Genus Theory".
The board of NWO-I, the institute organisation of NWO, appoints Prof. Ton de Kok as director of CWI. On 1 October 2020, De Kok will succeed the current director, Prof. Jos Baeten, who has led the institute since 2011 and will retire.
Léo Ducas from CWI's Cryptology Group in Amsterdam is awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro for research on quantum-safe cryptography. Most of today’s cryptographic methods will not be secure against attacks based on possible future quantum computers. Ducas studies lattice-based and code-based cryptography, areas whose methods are widely viewed as the most promising to provide long-term cryptographic security for computers and networks worldwide in the face of quantum computing.
Since 2015, QuSoft has grown into a leading research institute where over 60 scientists of the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (CWI) and Faculty of Science from the University of Amsterdam (FNWI) work together on fundamental and multidisciplinary quantum research. After five years, director of CWI, Jos Baeten and Peter van Tienderen, dean FNWI, signed the agreement that continues this collaboration.