February 8, 2018

Science and Technology Committee launches inquiry into Quantum Technologies

An inquiry into quantum technologies, one of the government’s 14 “core industrial challenges” has been announced by the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee. The launch follows on from government investment of £270m in 2013 as part of the original UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, a Blackett report into quantum technological opportunities published by the […]

September 15, 2017

Paper of the week!

Congratulations to PhD student Ryan Parker, whose first peer reviewed paper – “Hybrid photonic loss resilient entanglement swapping” – was chosen upon publication as Journal of Optics’ paper of the week! The paper (Journal of Optics 2017, vol. 19, no. 10) was co-authored with colleagues Jaewoo Joo, Mohsen Razavi and Ryan’s supervisor, Tim Spiller, and […]

September 5, 2017

Year 2 Hub Annual Report is now out!

The second year annual progress report for our Quantum Communications Hub has just been published! It includes content on progress across all technology themes, as well as news items on user and public engagement activities, outreach, research highlights and a list of outputs for 2016. You can access the report by downloading it from the […]

April 24, 2017

Quantum Technologies POSTnote

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has published a briefing document today focusing on quantum technologies. POSTnotes are reports designed to provide balanced and impartial advice to MPs and Peers, and today’s briefing includes information on quantum technologies from stakeholders from across the spectrum of academia, industry, government and the third sector. The result is […]

October 31, 2016

First Annual Quantum Communications Hub Report is now published!

The first annual report of our Quantum Communications Hub, describing activities from the first year of the project, has now been published and it is available to download from the Hub literature page.

February 8, 2016

Interview: Professor David Delpy, UK head of quantum technology strategy

By Stuart Nathan. [Re-posted from the Engineer (www.theengineer.co.uk)] How to fund science and engineering research is a perennially tricky question: although most people in the sector probably have ideas on how much taxpayers’ money is allocated to research and how it’s shared out, the overwhelming feeling is probably one of relief that they don’t have […]