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Kick-off for European superconducting quantum project
Researchers in Europe expect to get a little closer to a working quantum computer through EuroSQIP, a four year integrated project that started in November 2005 with support from the European Commission.
Researchers in Europe expect to get a little closer to a working quantum computer through EuroSQIP, a four year integrated project that started in November 2005 with support from the European Commission. A kick-off meeting for the project will be held in Paris March this year.
EuroSQIP (European Superconducting Quantum Information Processor) coordinated by Profesor Göran Wendin at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is a close collaboration between fourteen European universities and research institutes in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Russia. The EC contribution is 6 million Euros, representing about half of the budget for the project.
EuroSQIP has now been under way for the past four months where the partners will gather in Paris at the Institut Henri Poincaré during March 2006 to present results and compare notes, and discuss findings with prominent scientists in neighbouring fields. A major activity will involve the planning of research during the remaining part of 2006. Although integrated projects like EuroSQIP involve long-term and high-risk research, the organisational form promotes close collaboration between partners to meet the challenges in the work plans, with reviews and revision every twelve months. This creates interesting perspectives, considering that EuroSQIP concerns fundamental research, the true objectives of which may take ten to twenty years to approach, and maybe fifty years to accomplish.
The development of a quantum information processor on a chip represents one aspect of the evolution of nanoelectronics and quantum devices that can be expected strongly to influence future information, sensor and measurement technologies.
EuroSQIP, European Superconducting Quantum Information Processor is one of three integrated EU projects within the FP6 IST-FET program Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC). The others are SCALA and QAP, and soon the Coordination Action programme QUROPE will start up, forming a cohesive framework for all the European QIPC activities.
EuroSQIP (European Superconducting Quantum Information Processor) coordinated by Profesor Göran Wendin at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is a close collaboration between fourteen European universities and research institutes in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Russia. The EC contribution is 6 million Euros, representing about half of the budget for the project.
EuroSQIP has now been under way for the past four months where the partners will gather in Paris at the Institut Henri Poincaré during March 2006 to present results and compare notes, and discuss findings with prominent scientists in neighbouring fields. A major activity will involve the planning of research during the remaining part of 2006. Although integrated projects like EuroSQIP involve long-term and high-risk research, the organisational form promotes close collaboration between partners to meet the challenges in the work plans, with reviews and revision every twelve months. This creates interesting perspectives, considering that EuroSQIP concerns fundamental research, the true objectives of which may take ten to twenty years to approach, and maybe fifty years to accomplish.
The development of a quantum information processor on a chip represents one aspect of the evolution of nanoelectronics and quantum devices that can be expected strongly to influence future information, sensor and measurement technologies.
EuroSQIP, European Superconducting Quantum Information Processor is one of three integrated EU projects within the FP6 IST-FET program Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC). The others are SCALA and QAP, and soon the Coordination Action programme QUROPE will start up, forming a cohesive framework for all the European QIPC activities.
