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EACN 2021

2021 Workshop on Entanglement Assisted Communication Networks (EACN) - Munich, Germany, March 09 -12, 2021

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On March 09-12, 2021, the Workshop on Entanglement Assisted Classical Communication Networks (EANC) took place at the TUM Institute for Communications Engineering. This event was a joint workshop of the Emmy Noether Group “Theoretical Quantum System Design” supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Institute for Communications Engineering supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with the project Q.Link.X.

Workshop Chairs

Christian Deppe, Janis Nötzel

Local Organization

Roberto Ferrara, Uzi Pereg, Stephen Di Adamo, Christin Wizemann, Robert Schetterer

Materials

Recordings: EACN 2021

Booklet: Download

Workshop Schedule

Tuesday, March 9th

08:45 — Janis Nötzel and Christian Deppe: Introduction by the Convenor

Session 1: Q.Link.X - Quantum Repeaters Chair: Christian Deppe, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

09:00 — (Dieter Meschede) Q.Link.X - Cooperation and outreach
09:30 — (Christoph Becher) Extending links in quantum networks – an overview on the research network Q.Link.X
10:20 — (Peter van Loock) Quantum repeaters: protocols, basic elements, and rate analysis

Session 2: Q.Link.X - Quantum-Dots, Atoms and Ions Chair: Uzi Pereg, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

11:10 — (Peter Michler) Towards a semiconductor-based quantum repeater - Part 1
11:50 — (Sven Höfling) Towards a semiconductor based quantum repeater - Part 2
12:30 — (Jürgen Eschner) A programmable atom-photon quantum interface
13:00 — Lunch Break —
14:00 — (Harald Weinfurter) Towards a quantum repeater segment over long fiber distances
14:40 — (Gerhard Rempe) Optical-fiber/cavity quantum-network nodes

Session 3: Q.Link.X - Diamond centers and Theory Chair: Roberto Ferrara, Technical Chair: Stephen DiAdamo

15:20 — (David Hunger) Cavity enhancement for efficient diamond-based spin-photon interfaces
16:00 — Coffee Break
16:30 — (Florian Kaiser) Interfacing solid-state spins and photons for networked quantum technologies 
17:10 — (Uzi Pereg) Information theoretic perspective on quantum repeaters

Session 4: Quantum Repeaters Chair: Christian Deppe, Technical Chair: Stephen DiAdamo

17:50 — (Andreas Reiserer) Erbium-doped crystals: A novel platform for QIP
18:20 — (Filip Rozpędek) Quantum repeaters based on concatenated bosonic- and discrete-variable quantum codes
18:50 — (Johannes Borregaard) One-way quantum repeater based on near-deterministic photonemitter interfaces
19:30 — Q.Link.X Platform Meetings: Quantum Dots, Atoms and Ions, Diamond centers, Theory


Wednesday, March 10th
08:45 — Welcome —

Session 1: Theory as innovation driver Chair: Janis Nötzel, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

09:00 — (Alexander Holevo) The information capacity of entanglement-assisted quantum Gaussian mea-
surements

10:20 — (Andreas Winter) Zero-error communication via channels -entanglement assistance and beyond
11:20 — (Frank Fitzek) Theory that Matters!
12:20 — (Holger Boche) Post-Shannon quantum communication and (unexpected) links between computing and information processing
13:00 — Lunch Break —

Session 2: Hightech Product challenges/opportunities/examples Chair: Janis Nötzel, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

14:00 — (Frank Fitzek) Start Ups: The better research vehicle?
14:30 — (Dieter Meschede) Opticlock – quantum technology almost ready for roll-out
15:00 — (Riccardo Bassoli) Network coding for efficient vertical handovers - The scientific method in engineering
15:30 — (Daniel Khafif) Concepts behind high-tech entrepreneurial activities in the German market
16:00 — Coffee Break —

Session 3: Hightech Product challenges/opportunities/examples Chair: Janis Nötzel, Technical Chair: Stephen DiAdamo

16:30 — (Helmut Grießer) Deployment of QKD with commercial transport equipment
17:00 — (Thomas Hühn, Julius Schulz-Zander) Theory and practice of WiFi network development
17:30 — (Henning Weier) Tools for interdisciplinary training on the topic of quantum physics
18:00 — (Dieter Meschede, Norbert Pohlmann) Panel Discussions: Call for proposal - Quantum Tokens


Thursday, March 11th
08:45 — Welcome  —

Session 1: Simulations / Emulation Chair: Uzi Pereg, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

09:00 — (Rob Knegjens) NetSquid, a discrete-event simulation platform for quantum networks
09:30 — (Rod van Meter) QuISP: the Quantum Internet Simulation Package
10:00 —(Stephen Di Adamo) QuNetSim: A software framework for quantum networks 

Session 2: Hardware / Interconnects Chair: Uzi Pereg, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

10:30 — (Andreas Reiserer) Rare-earth dopants
11:00 — (Kai Müller) Generation and detection of single photons
11:30 — (Marcus Huber) High-dimensional entanglement for quantum communication
12:00 — (Fabian Steinlechner) Towards high-dimensional quantum communication in space
12:30 — (Jörg Wrachtrup) Advanced diamond quantum materials for photonic integration
13:00 — Lunch Break —

Session 3: Hardware / Interconnects / Experimental Challanges Chair: Christian Deppe, Technical Chair: Stephen DiAdamo

14:00 — (Elena del Valle) Engineering single and N-photon emission from frequency resolved correlations
14:30 — (Frank Deppe) Microwave quantum teleportation
15:00 — (Daniel Twitchen, Matthew Markham) Scaling and delivering diamond quantum solutions
15:30 — Coffee Break
16:00 — (Stefanie Barz) Protocols in quantum networks: recent results and experimental challenges
16:30 — (Tal Mor) Quantum key distribution network with quantum candies
17:00 — (Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler) Interconnecting nodes of an trapped-ion quantum processor
18:00 — (Boulat Bash, Frank Fitzek, Andreas Reiserer, Andreas Winter) Panel Discussion: What do you see as the potential use of quantum effects in the field of communication networks in 5, 10, and 20 years,
and what are the current biggest challenges for this use?


Friday, March 12th
08:45 — Welcome —

Session 1: Entanglement-Assisted protocols Part 1 Chair: Janis Nötzel, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

09:00 — (Matteo Rosati) Achieving high-data-rate communication on optical quantum channels: a theoretical implementation-oriented perspective
09:30 — (Shayan Srinivasa Garani) Designing rate-efficient coded quantum networks

Session 2: Networks: status, directions, use cases Chair: Roberto Ferrara, Technical Chair: Andrea Cacioppo

10:00 — (Marco Tomamichel) Open problem for the entanglement-assisted capacity
10:30 — (Elham Kashefi) Privacy and security in quantum network
11:00 — (Jens Eisert) Entanglement assisted communication networks
11:30 — (Wojciech Kozlowski) Network and software architecture for the quantum internet
12:00 — (Moritz Kleinert) Hybrid-photonic integrated circuits for classical and quantum communications
12:30 — (Felix Wissel) QKD@DT - We are building the security of the future
13:00 — Lunch Break —
14:00 — (Frank Fitzek) Communicaton networks: Quo vadis?

Session 3: Quantum Communication Chair: Roberto Ferrara, Technical Chair: Stephen DiAdamo

14:30 — (Matthias Christandl) Fault-tolerant coding for quantum communication
15:00 — (Farzin Salek) When are adaptive strategies in asymptotic quantum channel discrimination useful?
15:30 — (Zahra Khanian) Quantum state redistribution for ensemble sources
16:00 — Coffee Break —

Session 4: Entanglement-Assisted protocols Part 2 Chair: Janis Nötzel, Technical Chair: Stephen DiAdamo

16:30 — (Zheshen Zhang) Entanglement-assisted communication: experiment to surpass the ultimate classical capacity
17:00 — (Quntao Zhuang) Entanglement-assisted communication: theory and protocol design
17:30 — (Saikat Guha) Infinite-fold enhancement in communications capacity using pre-shared entanglement
18:00 — (Boulat Bash) Fundamental limits of entanglement-assisted covert communication over the bosonic channels
18:30 — Panel Discussions and Meeting

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