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SUMMARY:IC Monday Seminar : Challenges in Quantum Information and Communic
 ation
DTSTART:20111205T161500
DTSTAMP:20260407T102647Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Nicolas Gisin\, University of Geneva - Invited by Prof. 
 Michael Gastpar\nAbstract Quantum communication is the art of transferring
  a quantum state from one location\, Alice\, to a distance one\, Bob. The 
 main application\, Quantum Key Distribution relies on the no-cloning theor
 em to check the absence of any eavesdropper. The most fascinating aspect o
 f quantum communication is the presence of non-locality\, that is of corre
 lations that cant be described as resulting from previously shared randomn
 ess nor from classical communication. Nonlocality is demonstrated in tests
  of Bell inequality and in quantum teleportation. After an introduction to
  quantum communication and nonlocality\, two big challenges will be presen
 ted: 1. Exploit nonlocal correlation as a resource. 2. Exploit quantum tel
 eportation and quantum memories for future continental scale quantum netwo
 rk. Biography Prof. Nicolas Gisin was born in Geneva\, Switzerland\, in 19
 52. He received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the Universit
 y of Geneva in 1981. After a post-doc at the University of Rochester\, NY\
 , and four years in the industry\, he joined the Group of Applied Physics 
 at the University of Geneva where he is head of the optics section since 1
 988. His activities range from foundations of quantum physics (e.g. in 200
 9 he was awarded the John Stewart Bell prize) to applications in quantum c
 ommunications (e.g. he co-founded id Quantique\, the world leading company
  in Quantum cryptography).
LOCATION:INM 202
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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