GDR Quantum Engineering, from Fundamental Aspects to Applications (IQFA)

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IQFA’s Colloquiums

• 13^th Colloquium of the GDR IQFA - IQFA’13, C2N Palaiseau, November 16-18, 2022

  • IQFA organizes its 13^th Colloquium, IQFA’13, at C2N Palaiseau, 16-18 november 2022

• 12^th Colloquium of the GDR IQFA - IQFA’12, ENS de Lyon, November 3-5, 2021

  • IQFA organizes its 12^th Colloquium at ENS de Lyon, Novembre 3-5 2021 !!

• 11^th Colloquium of the GDR IQFA - IQFA’11, Université Grenoble Alpes, December 2-4, 2020

  • Presentations of IQFA’11 Colloquium at UGA available for download
  • IQFA organizes its 11^th Colloquium at Université Grenoble Alpes, December 2-4 2020 !!

• 10^th Colloquium of the GDR IQFA - IQFA’X, CNRS Headquarters, November 13-15, 2019

  • Presentations of IQFA’X Colloquium at CNRS Headquarters available for download

• First Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, University Nice Sophia Antipolis, 23-25 March 2011

  • 1^st GDR - IQFA colloquium, March 23-25 2011, Parc Valrose, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis
  • Presentations of the Nice Colloquium available for download

• Ninth Colloquium of the GDR IQFA, Université de Montpellier, November 14-16, 2018

  • Presentations of IQFA’9 Colloquium at Université de Montpellier available for download

• Eighth Colloquium of the GDR IQFA, Université Côte d’Azur, November 29 - December 1^st 2017

  • Presentations of IQFA 8 Colloquium at University Côte d’Azur available for download
  • Some pictures taken during IQFA8 @ UCA

• Seventh Colloquium of the GDR IQFA, Télécom ParisTech, November 16-18 2016

  • Presentations of the 7^th Colloquium (Télécom ParisTech) available for download

• Sixth Colloquium of the GDR IQFA, IOGS Palaiseau, November 18-20 2015

  • Presentations of the 6^th Colloquium (IOGS Palaiseau) available for download
  • Sixth IQFA’s Colloquium, November 18-20 2015, IOGS Palaiseau

• Fifth Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, ENS Lyon, November 17-19 2014

  • Presentations of the 5^th Colloquium (ENS Lyon) available for download
  • Fifth Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, November 17-19 2014, ENS Lyon

• Fourth Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, University Paris 7, 20-22 November 2013

  • Presentations of the Paris 7 Colloquium available for download
  • Fourth Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, November 20-22 2013, University Paris Diderot - Paris 7

• Third Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, Institut Néel Grenoble, 28-30 November 2012

  • Presentations of the Grenoble colloquium available for download
  • Third Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, 28-30 November 2012, Institut Néel, Grenoble

• Second Colloquium of the GDR - IQFA, University Paris 6, 23-25 November 2011

  • Presentations of the Paris Colloquium available for download
  • Second GDR - IQFA Colloquium, 23-25 November 2011, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris

Related conferences & schools

• (Pre)-doctoral schools associated with the GDR

  • Les Houches Int. School on Parametric Nonlinear Optics, April 20^th - May 1^st, 2015
  • Les Houches School of Physics on Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics, August 5 - 30, 2013
  • Les Houches School of Physics, Introduction to circuit and cavity QED, February 26 - March 02, 2012
  • Les Houches Summer School 2011 Quantum Machines - Measurement and control of engineered quantum systems

• Lectures

  • 2011 lectures on Mesoscopic Physics, Collège de France, "Quantum amplification and feedback", by Michel Devoret
  • Cours 2012-2013 du Collège de France, chaire "Atomes et rayonnement" par Jean Dalibard

• Conferences & Workshops

  • 2015

    • 3^rd Conference on Quantum Thermodynamics, October 11-16 2015, Porquerolles Island, France
    • FRISNO, 13^th French/Israeli Symposium on Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Aussois, France, March 17 - 22, 2015
    • Single Photon Workshop 2015, July 13-17 2015, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    • Workshop on Advances in Quantum Cryptography, March 23-24 2015, Paris

  • 2014

    • 4^th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt 2014) Paris, France, September 1-5, 2014
    • Day on the "Foundations of Quantum Theory", 8^th of December 2014, Université Paris 7
    • European Conference on Integrated Optics & MicroOptics Conference, Nice, France, June 24-27, 2014
    • Workshop on Quantum Communication Networks 9-10 Jan 2014, University of Leeds, UK

  • 2013

    • 8^th international meeting : "Mathematical Methods for Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry", 7-8 November 2013, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
    • QCRYPT 2013, Conference on Quantum Cryptography, 5-9 August 2013, Waterloo, Canada

  • 2012

    • 4^th Winter School on Practical Quantum Cryptography, January 23 to 26, 2012
    • CEA-EDF-INRIA school on Quantum Information, Measurement and Control
    • ICAP 2012 - 23^rd International Conference on Atomic Physics, July 23-27 2012, Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France
    • Lyon BEC 2012 "Theory of Quantum Gases and Quantum Coherence"
    • Nice Quantum Optics workshop, Nice, France
    • QCMC 2012, July 30 - August 3 2012, Vienna
    • Quantum Malta 2012 - Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics
    • School of Physics on Strong Light-Matter Coupling: from atoms to solid-state systems
    • SPIE - Photonics Europe 2012, Quantum and Atom Optics

  • 2011

    • 20^th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 2011), May 30^th to June 3^rd, 2011, at the Schlosshotel Münchhausen
    • 20^th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS’11), 11^th - 15^th July, Sarajevo
    • Congress OPTICS Marseille 2011
    • DCM 2011 - 7^th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Model, July 3 2011, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Disordered Systems: From Condensed-Matter Physics to Ultracold Atomic Gases, Mai 30 - June 11, 2011, Cargèse Scientific Center
    • French-Taiwanese summer school on quantum information,, May 13-16 2011, Sun Moon Lake, Nantou, Taiwan
    • Optical Complex Systems (OCS) 2011, Marseille, September 5-8^th 2011
    • QCRYPT 2011: First Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography, September 12-16, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland
    • QIPC 2011 - Conference at ETH Zurich, September 5-9, 2011
    • Summer School SUSSP67: Quantum Information & Coherence 28/7-9/8/2011 in Glasgow

  • 2010

    • 29^th French National Days on Guided-wave Optics (JNOG), Besançon, 20-22 October 2010
    • EOS Annual Meeting 2010, Paris, 26-29 October 2010
    • Quantum information in Paris meeting, September 23, 2010
    • Workshop on Post-Quantum Security Models (PSQM), Paris, October 11-12 2010

Gallery

• A cloud of rubidium cold atoms for storage of quantum information
• A single photon in all its forms !
• Hybrid photonic circuit for multiplexed heralded single photons
• PPLN waveguide under red laser illumination
• Single-molecule magnet qubit based transistor

What is IQFA ?

• Presentation of the GDR

  • Introduction
  • Aims of the GDR IQFA
  • Head and scientific committee
  • Administration and contact
  • Financial, administrative, and technical support

• Investigated thematics (ART)

  • Fundamental Quantum Aspects - FQA
  • Quantum Communication & Cryptography - QCOM
  • Quantum Metrology & Sensing - QMET
  • Quantum Processing, Algorithms, & Computation - QPAC
  • Quantum Simulation - QSIM
  • Transverse Engineering and Methods - TEM

• Involved laboratories

  • East

    • Institut FEMTO-ST

      • Optoelectronics
      • Quantum spatial fluctuations in images

    • Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA)

      • Adversary calculation theory, and security (CARTE)

    • Institut UTINAM

      • Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

    • Laboratory for Light, Nanomaterials & Nanotechnologies (L2n)

      • Quantum nanodevices (qnD)

  • Centre-West

    • Institut XLIM

      • Photonics - XLIM

  • Q-Info Labs Worldwide

    • Center for Photonic Communication and Computing (CPCC) in Evanston
    • Center for Quantum Photonics (CQP) in Bristol
    • Centre for Quantum Information and Communication (QuIC) in Bruxelles
    • Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) in Singapore
    • Experimental Quantum Physics (XPQ) in Munich
    • Group of Applied Physics (GAP) in Geneva
    • Institut de Ciènces Fotònices (ICFO) in Barcelona
    • Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (IQOQI) in Vienna
    • Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) at Caltech
    • Institute for Quantum Information Science (IQIS) in Calgary
    • Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at College Park, MD
    • Quantum Computation and Information (QICI) group in Bristol
    • Quantum Information Group in Urbana-Champaign
    • Quantum Transport group at TU Delft
    • Ultrafast Quantum Optics Group in Oxford

  • North

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules (PHLAM)

      • Cold Atoms - PHLAM
      • Quantum Imaging and Quantum Optics

    • Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN)]

      • Epitaxy and Physics of semiconductor heterostructures (Epiphy)
      • Nanostructures, nanoComponents & Molecules
      • Physics

  • Paris & metropolitan area

    • CEA - Saclay

      • Laboratoire des Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matière (LARSIM)
      • Quantronics

    • Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N)

      • Nonlinear Photonics and Quantum Information
      • Optics of Semiconductor Nanostructures
      • Silicon Photonics

    • Collège de France

      • Quantum photonics

    • Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (INSP)

      • Nanostructures and Optics
      • Nanostructures and Quantum Systems
      • Spectroscopy of Novel Quantum States

    • Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP)

      • Materials for Photonics & Optoelectronics (MPOE)

    • Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO)

      • Theoretical Approaches in Quantum Dynamics

    • Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (LAC)

      • Atomic & molecular processors in solids
      • Cold rubidium & twisted light
      • Correlated cold matter
      • Diamond
      • Laser & Optics (GLOP)
      • Theory of Information, Coherence & complexity (éTICC)

    • Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique Graduate School (LCFIO)

      • Atom Optics
      • Quantum Optics - LCFIO

    • Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (LCP)

      • Theoretical Chemistry and Modelling

    • Laboratoire d’Informatique Algorithmique : Fondements & Applications (LIAFA)

      • Quantum Algorithms and Complexity

    • Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (LIX)

      • TypiCal - INRIA

    • Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)

      • Quantum Information

    • Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB)

      • Atom Chips
      • Bose-Einstein Condensates
      • Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
      • Optomechanics and Quantum Measurements
      • Quantum fluctuations and relativity
      • Quantum Optics - LKB
      • Trapped Ions
      • Ultracold Fermi Gases

    • Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (MPQ)

      • Nonlinear Optical Devices (DON)
      • Quantum information and Technologies (QITE)
      • Theory - MPQ

    • Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain (LPA)

      • Coherent and Nonlinear Optics
      • Theory - LPA

    • Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux (LPEM)

      • Physics and Applications of Superconducting and Magnetic Elements (PHASME)

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL)

      • Bose-Einstein Condensates
      • Dipolar quantum gazes

    • Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (PMC)

      • Solid-State Chemistry

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS)

      • Theory - LPS

    • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE)

      • Statistical Physics an Condensed Matter

    • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation (LPTM)

      • Condensed Matter, Quantum Phenomenon

    • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée (LPTMC)

      • Quantum Correlations

    • Laboratoire Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace (SYRTE)

      • Atom Interferometry and Inertial Sensors (IACI)
      • Microwave Frequency Metrology (FMO)
      • Optical Frequency Metrology (FOP)
      • Theory and Metrology

    • Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information (LTCI)

      • Quantum Information

    • THALES Research and Technology (TRT)

      • Quantum Cryptography

  • Rhône-Alpes

    • Institut Camille Jordan

      • Probabilities, Statistical and Mathematical Physics

    • Institut Lumière Matière (ILM)

      • Nanostructures for Optics (NPO)

    • Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon (INL)

      • Nanophotonics - INL

    • Institut Néel

      • Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Plasmonics
      • Nanophysics and Semiconductors
      • Nanospintronics and Molecular Transport
      • Quantum Coherence - Néel
      • Quantum Nano-Electronics and Spectroscopy (QNES)
      • Theory for Nanosciences

    • Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG)

      • Computation, Algorithms, Programs, and Proofs (CAPP)

    • Laboratoire d’Informatique et du Parallèlisme (LIP)

      • Computational Modelling and Complexity

    • Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS Lyon

      • Quantum Circuit Group
      • Theoretical Physics

    • Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC)

      • Quantum coherence - LPMMC

    • CEA LETI - Laboratoire d’Electronique et de Technologie de l’Information

      • CEA LETI’s teams

  • South-East

    • Institut Fresnel

      • Light emission control and analysis - CLARTE

    • Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C)

      • Optics of collective states and spins
      • Quantum nanostructures, optical properties

    • Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale (LIF)

      • Natural calculation - CANA

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires (PIIM)

      • Ions Confinement and Laser Manipulation

    • Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI)

      • Cold Atoms - INPHYNI
      • Mesoscopic physics
      • Nonlinear Integrated Optics
      • Quantum Photonics & Information (QPI)

  • South-West

    • Centre d’Elaboration des Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales (CEMES)

      • NanoScience Group

    • Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité (LCAR)

      • Cold Atoms - LCAR
      • Femto
      • Interferometry

    • Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N)

      • Matter waves
      • Photons & Nanosystems

    • Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de Nano-Objets (LPCNO)

      • Quantum Optoelectronics

    • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (LPT)

      • Quantum Information at the LPT
      • Quantware
      • Strongly Correlated Systems

• Other Networks linked to Quantum Technologies

  • GDR Cold Atoms
  • GdR Informatique Mathématique
  • GDR Quantum Physics at the Mesoscopic scale
  • Paris Centre for Quantum Computing (PCQC)
  • Quantum Information in Paris (QuPa)

• Newsletters

  • Newsletter n°1 / September 2010
  • Newsletter n°19 / August 2020
  • Newsletter n°18 / July 2019
  • Newsletter n°17 / July 2018
  • Newsletter n°16 / December 2017
  • Newsletter n°15 / July 2017
  • Newsletter n°14 / July 2016
  • Newsletter n°13 / December 2015
  • Newsletter n°12 / July 2015
  • Newsletter n°11 / December 2014
  • Newsletter n°10 / July 2014
  • Newsletter n°9 / December 2013
  • Newsletter n°8 / July 2013
  • Newsletter n°7 / December 2012
  • Newsletter n°6 / July 2012
  • Newsletter n°5 / December 2011
  • Newsletter n°4 / July 2011
  • Newsletter n°3 / January 2011
  • Newsletter n°2 / October 2010

• Mailing list

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  • How to unsubscribe from IQFA’s Mailing List

• Archives

  • IQFA’s archives

    • A National Research Network (GDR) dedicated to Quantum Information Science, foundations & applications

  • Former GDR Quantum Information & Communication

    • Introduction notes of the former GDR Quantum Information & Communication
    • The colloquiums of the former GDR Quantum Information & Communication

In the headlines

• IQFA organizes its 12^th Colloquium at ENS de Lyon, Novembre 3-5 2021 !!
• IQFA organizes its 13^th Colloquium, IQFA’13, at C2N Palaiseau, 16-18 november 2022
• IQFA’11 presentations at Université Grenoble Alpes, December 02-04 2020, are available for download
• IQFA’s French territorial network

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News

• IQFA is renewed for 4 more years (2018-2021) !!