May 2013. Postdoc position in our group is available for a good, highly qualified researcher.
January 2013. Our laboratory has been the first one from the Institute for Quantum Computing to move in to the new Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre building. We are located in room QNC 3303 (and will relocate to QNC 3301 once additional construction there is complete). We have to say the building is fantastic, and the wait has been worth it.
September 2012. Quantum teleportation experiment over record 143 km distance has been published in Nature (also available in free preprint). Here you can see
sender Alice on La Palma
and
receiver Bob on Tenerife,
shooting bright green alignment beams at each other. The actual quantum states being teleported are carried by red single photons along the same path, and are invisible to the eye. Our lab’s modest contribution to this experiment was to provide special low-noise single-photon detectors, used in Bob on Tenerife. See press about this experiment.
June 2012. Vadim Makarov’s lecture on quantum hacking may be a good introduction to this topic, if you have an hour to watch it:
The main direction of research for the Quantum hacking lab is testing practical security of quantum communication systems, finding and demonstrating new loopholes, and helping to develop countermeasures against them. For example, quantum cryptography is absolutely secure in theory. However, practical implementations often deviate from the theory description, which leaves loopholes for eavesdropping. By openly publishing all our results, we ensure hardening of quantum communication technology against all possible attacks. We hope that our work will also lead to meaningful certification standards for quantum communication equipment.
Here are some accessible short news articles about us (picked from larger press archive):
