Quantum information processing and communication : Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

• Published in: The European physical journal. D, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 203 - 228
• Main Authors: ZOLLER, P, BETH, Th, EKERT, A, FABRE, C, GISIN, N, GRANGIERE, P, GRASSL, M, HAROCHE, S, IMAMOGLU, A, KARLSON, A, KEMPE, J, KOUWENHOVEN, L, BINOSI, D, KRÖLL, S, LEUCHS, G, LEWENSTEIN, M, LOSS, D, LüTKENHAUS, N, MASSAR, S, MOOIJ, J. E, PLENIO, M. B, POLZIK, E, POPESCU, S, BLOTT, R, REMPE, G, SERGIENKO, A, SUTER, D, TWAMLEY, J, WENDIN, G, WERNER, R, WINTER, A, WRACHTRUP, J, ZEILINGER, A, BRIEGEL, H, BRUSS, D, CALARCO, T, CIRAC, J. I, DEUTSCH, D, EISERT, J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Les Ulis Springer 2005; Bologna Società italiana di fisica; Berlin EDP sciences
• Subjects: Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics; Atom- och molekylfysik och optik; Classical and quantum physics: mechanics and fields; COMPUTATION; COMPUTER; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRON-SPIN; ENTANGLEMENT; Exact sciences and technology; Fysik; KEY DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL OPERATIONS; MEMORY; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; PHOTONS; Physical Sciences; Physics; Quantum information; SYSTEMS; State of the art; Quantum information; Information processing; Quantum communication
• ISSN: 1434-6060; 1434-6079; 1434-6079
• DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2005-00251-1

We present an excerpt of the document "Quantum Information Processing and Communication: Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe", which has been recently published in electronic form at the website of FET (the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit of the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission, http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-sr.htm). This document has been elaborated, following a former suggestion by FET, by a committee of QIPC scientists to provide input towards the European Commission for the preparation of the Seventh Framework Program. Besides being a document addressed to policy makers and funding agencies (both at the European and national level), the document contains a detailed scientific assessment of the state-of-the-art, main research goals, challenges, strengths, weaknesses, visions and perspectives of all the most relevant QIPC sub-fields, that we report here.