Counting photons for quantum information science

Project funded by Carlsberg Foundation (Research Infrastructure), grant CF21-0657. Participating organisations named by the source: DTU Technical University of Denmark. Runs n/a to 2025-06-30. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2025-08-01); national funding data, not CORDIS. Abstract given by the source: The project aims at demonstrating a true quantum advantage in quantum communication and quantum computing. Today we are able to tame the quantum world and thus exploit the mindboggling quantum phenomena to develop new types of technologies that promise extremely safe communication over long distances and super-fast computation. However, getting to the point where these technologies beat the classical counterparts still constitutes a large challenge. By exploiting the photon-counting detectors that are covered by the Carlsberg grant, we will get one critical step closer to the outstanding goal of constructing quantum computers and quantum communication systems that solve real-life problems beyond what is possible with classical systems. What? Why? How?

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AI-assisted summary: The project "Counting photons for quantum information science" is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and involves DTU Technical University of Denmark. It aims to demonstrate quantum advantages in communication and computing by utilizing photon-counting detectors until June 30, 2025. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.