• January 2024. Optical tables are installed in our lab in Vigo.

  

  

  

  

• December 2023. During 2023, we have opened a second laboratory at Vigo quantum communication center at the University of Vigo in Spain, with separate funding from European programs. A part of the group has relocated to Spain. We currently have a job opening there.

  

• October 2023. We have finally published a security analysis of QRate’s quantum key distribution system.

  

Our research

Quantum cryptography is absolutely secure in theory. However, practical implementations often deviate from the theory description, which leaves loopholes for eavesdropping. By openly publishing all our results, we ensure hardening of quantum communication technology against all possible attacks. We also build the methodology for its certification and contribute to certification standards for quantum communication equipment.

Here are some short news articles about us (picked from larger press archive):

• Quantum encryption is no match for a scorching laser beam, researchers find, Motherboard
• Hackers blind quantum cryptographers, Nature News
• Tricking the perfect code machine, BBC
• Lasers illuminate quantum security loophole, Nature News

Current collaborations

• TII (Abu Dhabi)
• Scontel
• QSpace
• Prokhorov General physics institute
• QRate
• W. Pernice’s group at the University of Münster
• Shanghai institute for advanced studies in quantum information
• Interdisciplinary center of quantum information at the National University of Defense Technology (Changsha, China)
• QuantumCTek
• ID Quantique

 
   
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