QUANTUM ANTENNA THEORY FOR NON-CLASSIC LIGHT SOURCES

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Navarre (NUTS ES220); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 172,546; EU co-financing EUR 86,273 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2019-09-16 to 2022-09-15. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its title uses a quantum word. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES ARE EXPECTED TO LEAD TO TRANSFORMATIVE ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. IN MANY INSTANCES, NONCLASSICAL LIGHT SOURCES LIE AT THE BASIS OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES, SINCE NONCLASSICAL LIGHT STATES ARE REQUIRED TO FEED AND TRIGGER THE PROCESSES UNDERPINNING THEIR COMMUNICATION, SENSING, SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION APPLICATIONS. THEREFORE, THE SUCCESS OF FUTURE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES WILL LARGELY DEPEND ON ADVANCING STATE-OF-THE-ART SOLID-STATE SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES INTO A BROADER TECHNOLOGY, ENCOMPASSING SOURCES WITH DIFFERENT AND MULTIPLE FUNCTIONALITIES. THIS SCENARIO CAN BE COMPARED TO CLASSICAL ANTENNAS, WHICH ARE MUCH FURTHER DEVELOPED, AND PROVIDE A PRECISE CONTROL OVER ALL DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES. IN FACT, THE SUCCESS OF ANTENNA TECHNOLOGIES IS EVIDENCED BY THE MILLIONS OF ANTENNAS POPULATING OUR HANDHELD DEVICES, AS WELL AS FOR THEIR USE IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENTATION, SUCH AS COMMUNICATION SATELLITES, SPACE OBSERVATORIES AND RADIO TELESCOPES. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO TRANSPLANT DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ANTENNA THEORY TO THE QUANTUM THEORY OF RADIATION, IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THE FIELD OF NONCLASSICAL LIGHT SOURCES, THUS ESTABLISHING THE FIELD OF QUANTUM ANTENNA THEORY. TO THIS END, WE WILL INTRODUCE NOVEL THEORETICAL, MODELING AND DESIGN METHODS, IN WHICH WELL-KNOWN TECHNIQUES FROM ANTENNA THEORY WILL BE ADAPTED TO ITS APPLICATION IN SOLID-STATE QUANTUM EMITTERS. WE EXPECT THAT LINKING AND MERGING THE FIELDS OF ANTENNA THEORY AND QUANTUM OPTICS WILL IMPACT THE FIELD OF NONCLASSICAL LIGHT SOURCES, ENABLING SINGLE PHOTON SOURCES WITH PERFORMANCE BEYOND THE STATE-OF-THE ART, NOVEL PHOTON SOURCES WITH ADVANCED FUNCTIONALITIES, AND INSPIRING NEW APPLICATIONS FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES. FROM A BROADER PERSPECTIVE, THIS MULTIDISCIPLINARY EFFORT WILL PROVIDE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUANTUM THEORY OF RADIATION, AND IT WILL HAVE A TRANSVERSAL IMPACT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project "Quantum Antenna Theory for Non-Classic Light Sources" is co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 172,546, running from September 16, 2019, to September 15, 2022, in Navarre, Spain. It focuses on the role of nonclassical light sources in advancing quantum technologies. Suggested technology pillar: communication. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.