Quantum technologies in space

verfasst von
Rainer Kaltenbaek, Antonio Acin, Laszlo Bacsardi, Paolo Bianco, Philippe Bouyer, Eleni Diamanti, Christoph Marquardt, Yasser Omar, Valerio Pruneri, Ernst Rasel, Bernhard Sang, Stephan Seidel, Hendrik Ulbricht, Rupert Ursin, Paolo Villoresi, Mathias van den Bossche, Wolf von Klitzing, Hugo Zbinden, Mauro Paternostro, Angelo Bassi
Abstract

Recently, the European Commission supported by many European countries has announced large investments towards the commercialization of quantum technology (QT) to address and mitigate some of the biggest challenges facing today’s digital era – e.g. secure communication and computing power. For more than two decades the QT community has been working on the development of QTs, which promise landmark breakthroughs leading to commercialization in various areas. The ambitious goals of the QT community and expectations of EU authorities cannot be met solely by individual initiatives of single countries, and therefore, require a combined European effort of large and unprecedented dimensions comparable only to the Galileo or Copernicus programs. Strong international competition calls for a coordinated European effort towards the development of QT in and for space, including research and development of technology in the areas of communication and sensing. Here, we aim at summarizing the state of the art in the development of quantum technologies which have an impact in the field of space applications. Our goal is to outline a complete framework for the design, development, implementation, and exploitation of quantum technology in space.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Quantenoptik
QuantumFrontiers
SFB 1227: Designte Quantenzustände der Materie (DQ-mat)
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Ljubljana
Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Airbus Group
Universite de Bordeaux
Universite Paris 6
Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts
Universidade de Lisboa
Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
OHB System AG
University of Southampton
Universität Padua
Thales Group
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL-FORTH)
Universität Genf
Queen's University Belfast
University of Trieste
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (IQOQI)
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Experimental astronomy
Band
51
Seiten
1677-1694
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
0922-6435
Publikationsdatum
06.2021
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Astronomie und Astrophysik, Astronomie und Planetologie
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09731-x (Zugang: Offen)