The Quantum Industry has been rapidly growing over the past several years. This talk will describe advances going on in quantum technology development in computing, sensing, and communications, provide examples of each and discuss trends in each area. A key focus will be on how advances in photonic devices and photonic integrated circuits will impact the quantum industry and fuel future advancement.

It is increasingly accepted that all commercially useful quantum computing applications require error-correction and therefore at least 1 million physical qubits. The manufacturing capability and expertise of the semiconductor industry are needed to deliver a commercially useful quantum computer on any reasonable time or money scale. In this talk, we will show how unique technology in the areas of silicon photonics and quantum system architecture enable the path to manufacturability and scalability of a fault-tolerant, general-purpose 1-milliion qubit quantum computer.

Ultracold neutral atoms have emerged as a leading platform for scalable quantum simulation, but can they be similarly used for gate-based quantum computation? In this talk, I will present an overview of major accomplishments in academia that have spurred multiple different startups to enter the quantum computing race, focusing on the use of neutral atoms as a scalable qubit platform. With these proof of principle demonstrations in mind, I will describe Atom Computing's first prototype system and recently announced use of a unique qubit to achieve bare coherence times in excess of 20 seconds. Utilizing qubit states that are broadly insensitive to the environment they are trapped in, this system is quickly becoming a testbed for how to build programmatic control into neutral atom systems that rivals other leading quantum computing platforms.

Surface electrode ion traps offer a clear advantage in quantum information over traditional 4-rod traps by enabling the precise control necessary for manipulating a long chain of ions. At Sandia, we use CMOS compatible fabrication techniques to make these devices more complex and repeatable; a likely necessity when building quantum systems with hundreds or thousands of ions. These techniques grant us access to unique integration capabilities, through which we aim to continuously improve the state-of-the-art of surface ion traps. I will share some examples of our capabilities and recent work on our Phoenix and Peregrine traps which aim to improve the reliability and performance of previous designs. ----------------------- Sandia National Labs is managed and operated by NTESS LLC, a subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. DOE's NNSA under contract DE-NA0003525. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government.

The European Quantum Flagship and the German QuNET initiative support research on Quantum Communication and strive towards creating a substantial value chain for future quantum communication infrastructures. Within these initiatives, Fraunhofer HHI develops both systems and components, the latter basing on InP and hybrid Quantum PICs. Focus is on the early installation of QKD networks, while being open for later development of quantum repeaters.

First-generation long-distance quantum repeater networks require quantum memories capable of interfacing with telecom photons to perform quantum-interference-mediated entanglement generation operations. The ability to demonstrate these interconnections using real-life fiber connections in a long-distance setting is paramount to realize a scalable quantum internet.

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a promising technology for securing future communications. Over the past thirty years, QKD developed from a theoretical idea to a mature technology that can provide Mbit/s key rates and that can be established over several hundred (up to a few thousand) of kilometres. One of the next challenges for this technology is proving its suitability for real-world operation scenarios. In this talk we will discuss recent QKD deployments executed in UK and Europe by Toshiba in collaboration with other partners, which demonstrate that the development of a stable, high performance, and widespread quantum communication network is in reach with current technology.

It’s well known that most quantum technologies are built from and underpinned by advanced photonic technologies. As these systems reach maturity, there will become more and more opportunity to transfer photonic technologies from one application to another. In this talk, Dr Francis-Jones will describe ORCA Computing’s efforts to take novel components, built to produce very high quality, on demand single photons for photonic quantum computers and apply these to improve quantum communication technologies. Dr Francis-Jones will identify several technologies that ORCA is spinning off to help increase the key rates of QKD, reduce the background noise from daylight and improve and reduce the cost of the quality of detection.

Q-Sensorix, LLC is working on a chip-scale NV center in a diamond gyroscope. But, the gyro will be the first step in developing the multi-sensor platforms using color centers in diamond. The color center technologies are one of the few that promise to provide a chip-scale quantum sensing and effectively complete with the small size, weight, and power consumption of MEMS sensors. Current research covers future applications for the NV and other color centers in diamond, including magnetic and electric field sensing, temperature, strain, pressure, acceleration, & timing. And the hybrid sensors will open the door for many more types of applications.

Atomic clocks are an important part of many potential quantum sensors, in addition to constituting a type of quantum sensor in their own right. For many applications, high-performance clocks must be realized in a manner compatible with operation outside of a laboratory. In this talk, I will outline efforts at developing the integrated photonics technology needed to miniaturize optical atomic clocks, including our lab’s own efforts on nonlinear nanophotonics components. I will also discuss how such integrated photonics can also impact the development of other types of quantum sensors, and present some of the challenges involved in advancing these technologies.

Mark will discuss the current status of the quantum marketplace for the various target applications. He will address where we are, the gaps with moving the technology into commercialization along the value chain, and the timing for productization of the technologies, including various perspectives from providers and users of quantum technologies. Bring your questions.

The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) is a consortium of stakeholders from across the innovation ecosystem, including suppliers, hardware and software system developers, end users and others. QED-C provides a broad industry perspective to the U.S. government as input to policies and investments related to quantum information science and technology. QED-C is identifying use cases for quantum-based technologies and developing strategies and roadmaps to address gaps in enabling technologies, standards and metrics, and workforce. The consortium supports collaboration among partners with a shared values from around the world.

Some 8 years since the UK announced the world’s first national quantum technology programme and word has gotten out. Nowdays, every country with half a physicist has now announced their intention to ‘lead the world in the second quantum revolution’. How does the UK fare in the future quantum industry? In this new crowded market of quantum-ambitious countries, we should consider how to intelligently understand how the pieces fit together within a future, globally connected quantum economy. Richard Murray will elaborate on the work the UKQuantum- the voice of the UK quantum industry and how it is looking to help.