Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science, Beijing, September 1-4, 2006

Theodoros Kapourniotis, Vedran Dunjko, Elham Kashefi

Tianming Chen, Hongxin Zhang, Yinghua Lu +2 more

Tianming Chen, Hongxin Zhang, 2 Yinghua Lu, Haixia Wang, and Yongfang Bao School of Electronic Engineering Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing 100049, China University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China (Received September 8, 2007)

S Taekuchi, Taisuke Nagata Taisuke Nagata, Ryo Okamoto +2 more

G. Falci, Elisabetta Paladino, G. Massimo Palma +3 more

The 11th Italian Quantum Information Science conference (IQIS 2018) took place in Catania, Italy, at the Monastero dei Benedettini, from September 17 to 20, 2018. IQIS 2018 was organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy “E. Majorana” of the University of Catania, and by IMM-CNR, Catania. The conference also hosted an event dedicated to the FET-Flagship 2018/28 on Quantum Technologies. These proceedings collect papers contributed by the participants, which extend presentations delivered at the conference, and were subjected to peer-reviewing. They provide a snapshot of the contributions (mainly, but only) by the Italian scientific community to the developing field of quantum information and related subjects.

Miguel Ferrero

Ryszard S. Romaniuk

Quantum information technologies QIT have two separate but entangled layers – material and ideological. Material layer embraces algorithms, physical devices and systems. Cognitive layer is related to the boundaries and structure of our knowledge, including the magic of nonlocal interactions and subtleties of contextuality. The paradox is that QIT should use quantum magic as a resource to turn into functional utility. The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology is celebrated in Europe, Poland and elsewhere. Opening conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris was attended by representatives of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and some quantum science groups. Several scientific conferences organized in Poland were announced to the IYQ25 calendar, including: May Symposia of Information and Quantum Horizons in Gdańsk, August Max Born Optical Symposium in Wrocław, September Congress of the Polish Physicists in Katowice. Quantum research projects are realized in Poland, QuantERA, tasks included in the European Quantum Flagship EQF, construction of quantum equipment by university consortia MIKOK, quantum networks and others.