Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/Z533208/1

Title:

INTEGRATED QUANTUM NETWORKS (IQN) RESEARCH HUB

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Salter, Dr PS	Wonfor, Mr A	Morley, Professor GW
Kok, Professor P	Vick, Mr AJA	Oi, Dr DKL
Skolnick, Professor M	Simeonidou, Professor D	Wilson, Professor L
Andersson, Professor E	Lucas, Dr D	Bonato, Professor C
Arapinis, Dr M D	Clark, Dr A S	Ledingham, Dr PM
Donaldson, Dr R J	Chunnilall, Dr C	Joshi, Dr S K
Millar, Dr RW	Gangloff, Professor D	Yi, Dr X
Doosti, Dr M	Bekker, Dr C J	Faruque, Dr I I
Colbeck, Professor R	Pirandola, Professor S	Gerardot, Professor B
Atature, Professor M	Kashefi, Professor E	Nejabati, Professor R
Penty, Professor R	Fox, Professor M	Paul, Professor DJ
Smith, Professor JM	Walmsley, Professor IA	O'Neill, Professor M
Heffernan, Professor J	Fedrizzi, Professor A	THOMAS, Dr S
Malik, Professor M	Rafferty, Dr C	Khalid, Dr AA
Parapatil Subramanian, Dr R	Mazzera, Dr M	Cheng, Dr Q
Lucamarini, Professor M	Brash, Dr AJ	Wang, Dr R
Bahrani, Dr S

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

AegiQ	Alter Technology UK Ltd	Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL
Angoka Limited	Arqit Limited	Bay Photonics Ltd
BT	CENSIS	Ciena Ltd
Coherent Corp	Craft Prospect Ltd	Crypta Labs Ltd
Digital Catapult	Duality Quantum Photonics Ltd	Elson Space Engineering
ETSI	euNetworks Fiber UK Ltd	Honeywell
ID Quantique	KETS Quantum Security Ltd	Leonardo UK ltd
LTIMindtree	National Cyber Security Centre	Nokia
Nu Quantum	ORCA Computing Ltd	Oxford Quantum Circuits
PsiQuantum Ltd	Quandela SAS	Quantinuum
Quantum Dice	Satellite Applications Catapult	Scottish Enterprise
Technology Scotland	Toshiba	Veriqloud
Wideblue Ltd

Department:

Sch of Engineering and Physical Science

Organisation:

Heriot-Watt University

Scheme:

Standard Research TFS

Starts:

01 September 2024

Ends:

31 August 2029

Value (£):

20,879,127

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Communications

Information Technologies

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

Quantum networks transmit and share quantum information, exploiting entanglement and quantum measurement to achieve tasks beyond the reach of classical systems. The central vision of the Integrated Quantum Networks (IQN) Hub is to establish quantum networks at all distance scales, from local networking of quantum processors to national scale entanglement networks for quantum-safe communication, distributed computing and sensing, all the way to intercontinental networking via satellites.

Turity to bolster national security. We will foster synergies with competing international efforts through healthy exchange with our global partners. The Hub's strong industrial partner base will facilitate knowledge exchange and new venture creation.

Achieving the IQN Hub's vision will provide a secure distributed and entanglement-enabled quantum communication infrastructure for UK end-users. Industry, government stakeholders and the public will be able to secure data in transit, in storage and in computation, exploiting unique quantum resources and functionalities. We will use a hybrid approach with existing classical cyber-security standards, including novel emerging post-quantum algorithms as well as hardware security modules. We will showcase our ambition with target use-cases that have emerged as barriers for industry, after years of investigation within the current EPSRC QT Hubs as well as other international efforts. These barriers include security and integrity of: (1) device authentication, identification, attestation, verification; (2) distributed and cloud computing; (3) detection, measurement, sensing, synchronisation.

We will demonstrate novel applications as well as identify novel figures of merit (such as resilience, accuracy, sustainability, communication complexity, cost, integrity, etc.) beyond security enhancement alone to ensure the national quantum entanglement network can be fully exploited by our stakeholders and our technology can be rapidly translated into a commercial setting.

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