May 21, 2024

Visionary new approach for space-borne quantum technologies brings global quantum networking closer to implementation

Implementation of global-scale quantum communication networks is currently hampered by distance limitations affecting the quality of signals sent down standard optical fibre. Use of quantum repeaters can help to extend the transmission range, but the resulting technology requirements and costs are substantial. In a newly published paper, Quantum Communications Hub researchers from the University of […]

May 16, 2024

Quantum City launches new website to engage next generation of quantum scientists

Quantum City, a public engagement initiative set up by UK National Quantum Technologies Programme partners in 2018, has reached a new milestone in the launch of a new website (quantumcity.org.uk) aiming to inform and capture the imaginations of people interested in understanding more about quantum technologies. Quantum technologies will soon be used in our everyday […]

May 8, 2024

The Hub publishes annotated versions of NCSC’s technology assurance principles with relevance to the quantum communications sector

In late 2021, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a White Paper outlining a new approach to technology assurance and plans for its implementation. This approach partly arose following the publication of the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy which emphasized the need for “cutting edge cyber capability” and […]

April 25, 2024

Second series of Quantum Career Fact Sheets now published!

The development and commercialisation of quantum technologies is an exciting area of research innovation, currently being supported by unprecedented levels of investment on a global level. In the UK alone, last year’s national quantum strategy set out an ambitious ten-year vision for the country to be a leading quantum-enabled economy, with these emerging technologies driving […]

April 14, 2024

Final three winners of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition

Three stories inspired by quantum physics have claimed prizes in the final round of the international Quantum Shorts competition. First Prize goes to the author of “A World in Threads” – in which a girl searches for a perfect reality through many worlds. “The Observer”, where the emergence of observers within an observed universe causes […]

March 11, 2024

Ten Quantum Shorts finalists selected from record number of submissions

The international Quantum Shorts competition received a record 650 entries in its last call for flash fiction that takes inspiration from quantum physics. Now, it is delighted to present the 10 finalists. Quantum Shorts is organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore.  The Quantum Communications Hub through its involvement in the outreach partnership […]

January 24, 2024

PRESS RELEASE: State-of-the-art telescope paves way for space tech cluster at Heriot-Watt

Heriot-Watt announces ambitions to work with industry to create a ‘space tech cluster’ at its Research Park. The University is encouraging space industry leaders to consider a presence at its Edinburgh campus.