Quantum Technologies

We are already surrounded by quantum technologies. From microprocessors, to digital cameras, to lasers—these technologies rely for their operation on the quantum behaviour of electrons in solids and on the stimulated emission of coherent radiation, respectively. Advances in experimental techniques and equipment over the past few decades have enabled the manipulation of single quantum objects (photons, atoms) to harness more advanced, subtle, aspects of quantum mechanics: superposition and entanglement. Thanks to these properties a new era of Quantum Technologies is now emerging, that promises: quantum sensors with higher sensitivity and accuracy; quantum secure communication; and, quantum computers capable of tackling complex physical problems inaccessible to classical computers.