Single‐photon sources as new quantum standards

SIQUST

Finanziamento del: European Commission  
Calls: EUROPEAN METROLOGY PROGRAMME FOR INNOVATION AND RESEARCH (EMPIR)
Data inizio: 2018-06-01  Data fine: 2021-05-31
Budget totale: EUR 1.799.198,38  Quota INO del budget totale: EUR 100.000,00
Responsabile scientifico: Stefan Kück    Responsabile scientifico per INO: Toninelli Costanza

Principale Organizzazione/Istituzione/Azienda assegnataria: PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt – Germany

altre Organizzazione/Istituzione/Azienda coinvolte:
AS Metrosert (Estonia)
CMI Cesky Metrologicky Institut – Czech Republic
CSIC Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain)
FAU Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nümberg (Germany)
INFN ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE
INRIM Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
NPL Management Limited (UK)
TUB Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
Universitaet des Saarlandes (USAAR) – Germany
Università degli Studi di Torino
Universität Stuttgart: Physikalisches Institut USTUTT Germany
Universität des Saarlandes (UdS), Germany
VTT Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Finland)

altro personale INO coinvolto:



Abstract: The aim of this project is to develop new absolute standard radiation sources, which exploit the discrete and quantum nature of photons, and the necessary metrological infrastructure. These sources will be based on single-photon emitters with a calculable photon emission rate and high purity, i.e. with a very low multiple photon emission probability. Such sources hold promise as new quantum standards which will have a large number of applications, e.g. for use in the calibration of single-photon detectors, for the realisation of the SI base unit candela, for quantum random-number generation, for quantum key distribution, for sub-shot noise metrology, for quantum-enhanced metrology, and for photon-based quantum computation.

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