Quantum Network at Scale

Tutorial - Th.B.1.T Towards Global Quantum Communications Networks

Mohsen Razavi University of Leeds

Our conventional communications networks may soon need a major overhaul to accommodate the new applications that will arise in the quantum era. This includes new cryptography protocols, such as quantum key distribution, all the way through to connecting future quantum computers, and sensing networks. While some of these tasks may still take some time to become operational, scientists and engineers have collaboratively made several breakthroughs in the past decade. In this tutorial, I will overview some of these efforts and outline the upgrades needed for current backbone and access networks, leading to a global quantum communications network---the Quantum Internet.

Speaker biography

Mohsen Razavi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, respectively, in 1998 and 2000, and his PhD from MIT, in 2006. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo until September 2009, when he joined the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds, where he is now a Professor of Quantum Communications. He is a recipient of the Marie-Curie International Reintegration Grant, and has organized several conferences and workshops in the field. He coordinated the European Innovative Training Network, QCALL, which aimed at providing quantum communications services to all users. He has authored a book on quantum communications networks in IOP Concise Physics series. His research interests include a variety of topics in quantum optical communications, quantum optics, and quantum communications networks.

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Christine Silberhorne

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