CQT researchers awarded grants under Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme

Congratulations to CQT researchers and their teams who have been awarded grants under Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP)!

Launched in 2018, QEP aims to apply quantum technologies for solving user-defined problems. It has announced a total of 26 projects, which cover quantum communication and security, quantum computing and processors and quantum sensing, under its second phase of funding. These awarded projects were entered to QEP’s calls for proposals that invited researchers to address challenge statements developed through workshops involving both researchers and industry participants.

The successful projects were selected after expert peer review of submissions and range from two to three years long. CQT researchers are involved in 18 of the new projects. Fourteen projects have CQTians serving as lead Principal Investigators (PIs)
and an additional four projects have CQTians as co-Principal Investigators.

The projects are listed below with the names of CQT researchers italicised:

Evaluation of all-transparent optical routers for a quantum network embedded in a classical optical fiber network
Quantum communication and security
Lead PI: Christian Kurtsiefer

Heterogenous quantum interfaces over metropolitan distances
Quantum communication and security
Lead PI: Christian Kurtsiefer
Co-PIs: Gao Weibo; Manas Mukherjee; Cesare Soci

Island-wide quantum key distribution using electrically driven single photon emitters
Quantum communication and security
Lead PI: Gao Weibo
Co-PI: Alexander Ling

Optical Fiber Characterization and Noise Mitigation for Quantum Clock Comparison and Application
Quantum communication and security
Lead PI: Meng Yusong
Co-PI: Murray Douglas Barrett

Quantum homomorphic encryption: the Swiss army knife for the quantum internet?
Quantum communication and security
Lead PI: Marco Tomamichel

A scalable, programmable atom-array platform for quantum simulation of dynamical and material physics
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Loh Huanqian
Co-PIs: Gong Jiangbin; Lee Ching Hua; Brian Lim Youliang

Advanced Quantum Processor Platform
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Rainer Dumke
Co-PIs: Do Anh Tuan; Chui King Jien; M Kumarasamy Raja

Advancing cavity QED: materials and algorithms
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Dario Poletti
Co-PIs: Wu Lin; Kwek Leong Chuan; Ricky Ang; Koh Enshan, Dax; Khoo Jun Yong; Wu Chunfeng

Computer science approaches to quantum computing for finance
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Patrick Rebentrost
Co-PIs: Miklos Santha; Chen Ying; Dai Min; Pun Chi Seng; Antonios Varvitsiotis; Marco Tomamichel; Rahul Jain; Hartmut Klauck; Anupam Chattopadhyay

Quantum-Enhanced Modelling of Financial Time-Series Data for Rare Event Forecasting
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Mile Gu
Co-PIs: Paul Griffin; Vlatko Vedral; Ariel Neufeld; Rajesh Balan

Quantum processor with trapped ions
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Dzmitry Matsukevich

Resource efficient quantum algorithms and applications for chemistry, route optimization and finance
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Dimitris Angelakis
Co-PIs: Adrian Mak; Daniel Leykam; Paul Griffin

Towards a scalable quantum machine learning solution using trapped ions
Quantum computing and processors
Lead PI: Manas Mukherjee
Co-PI: Li Hongyu

Atom Interferometer based Gravimetry: Development and Application
Quantum sensing
Lead PI: Rainer Dumke
Co-PIs: Benoit Taisne; Wei Shengji; Christoph Hufnagel

Exploration of a fibre communications network for seismic sensing
Quantum sensing
Lead PI: Christian Kurtsiefer

Optical Ranging using Thermal Light
Quantum sensing
Lead PI: Tan Peng Kian
Co-PI: Christian Kurtsiefer

Quantum Assisted Navigation and Magnetic Sensing
Quantum sensing
Lead PI: Rainer Dumke
Co-PIs: Christoph Hufnagel; David Wilkowski; Ben Olsen; Lan Shau-Yu; Gao Weibo; Wong Chee Wei; Alexander Ling

Single Photon Detectors for Quantum Sensing and Communications
Quantum sensing
Lead PI: Victor Leong
Co-PIs: Thomas Ang; Alexander Ling

For the full list of projects, go to: https://qepsg.org/projects