Organizer Co-organizer
CAOSIP NICT

About TCQCS 2019

The purpose of this conference is to share the latest progress in the field of quantum communication and to promote international cooperation not only in the research but also in the standardization and the research and development policy.
This conference is held in conjunction with the EU-USA-Japan International Symposium on Quantum Technology (ISQT).

Related conferences

EU-USA-Japan International Symposium on Quantum Technology (ISQT)

The 2nd International Forum on Quantum Metrology and Sensing (The 2nd IFQMS)

Topical Conference on Quantum Computing 2019 (TCQC2019)

Moonshot International Symposium
(separate registration is needed)

Registration

Please register via the ISQT web site.

Outline

Dates

December 17 (Tue.), 2019
14:00 – 15:40 Symposium
(Registration starts: 13:30)

December 18 (Wed.), 2019
9:30 – 18:25 Symposium
(Registration starts: 9:00)

Venue

Kyoto Brighton Hotel, Kadi Court
Nakadachiuri, Shinmachi-Dori,
Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8071, Japan
Tel:+81-75-441-4411

Access (Free shuttle bus is available from Karasuma Oike Station.)

Registration fee

Free

Capacity

80

Language

English

Organizer

Cabinet Office of Japan,
Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), Photonics and Quantum Technology for Society 5.0

Co-organizer

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

Under the auspices of

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Organizing committee

HIRANO Takuya (Gakushuin Univ.), Chair
Ali Benmoussa (DG CNECT, EC), Co-chair
KOSAKA Hideo (Yokohama National Univ.)
TAKEOKA Masahiro (NICT)
FUJIWARA Mikio (NICT)
SASAKI Masahide (NICT)
Xavier Piednoir (ETSI)

Contact

NICT
TAKEOKA Masahiro
Email: information@nict.go.jp

The presentation materials in PDF are available only for the conference participants.

Program

December 17
14:00 – 14:05 Opening Remarks
HIRANO Takuya (Gakushuin Univ.)
Special Session: Quantum Internet
14:05 – 14:30 “Atom, ion, and all-photon quantum repeater”
IMOTO Nobuyuki (Osaka Univ.)		 PDF
14:30 – 14:55 “Towards Suburban Quantum Links
- Long Distance Atom-Photon Entanglement”
Harald Weinfurter (Ludwig Maximilians Univ. Munich)		 PDF
14:55 – 15:20 “Diamond-based quantum repeater for quantum internet”
KOSAKA Hideo (Yokohama National Univ.)		 PDF
15:20 – 15:45 “Design tools for metropolitan quantum networks”
David Elkouss (QuTech)		 PDF
Poster Session
16:00 – Joint Poster Session with ISQT and other topical conferences (TCQC, IFQMS)
December 18
Introductory Session
9:30 – 9:40 Welcome Messages
SASAKI Masahide (NICT)
9:40 – 10:00 “Photonics and Quantum Technology for Society 5.0”
NISHIDA Naoto (SIP, Program Director) and FUJIWARA Mikio (SIP, Team Leader)
10:00 – 10:20 “Towards a Quantum Communication Infrastructure (QCI) for Europe”
Gustav Kalbe (EC)		 PDF
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
Session 1: Quantum Key Distribution
10:40 – 11:00 “QKD R&D, field trials, and standardization activities in Toshiba”
TANIZAWA Yoshimichi (Toshiba)
11:00 – 11:20 “Continuous-variable quantum key distribution on ground and in space”
Eleni Diamanti (CNRS)		 PDF
11:20 – 11:40 “Implementation security certification of quantum key distribution devices”
TOMITA Akihisa (Hokkaido Univ.)		 PDF
11:40 – 15:00 Lunch & Networking
(12:00 - 14:30 Moonshot International Symposium WG6)
Session 2: Quantum Key Distribution Standardization
15:00 – 15:20 “QKD network standardization in ITU-T”
KENYOSHI Kaoru (NICT)		 PDF
15:20 – 15:40 “QKD Networks Architectures Standardization in ETSI”
Vicente Martin (U. P. Madrid)		 PDF
15:40 – 16:00 “The place of QKD in the overall cybersecurity landscape”
Arnaud Taddei (Broadcom)		 PDF
16:00 – 16:40 Panel Discussion: the way forward
Moderator:
Adam Lewis (EC)
Panelists:
KENYOSHI Kaoru (NICT/ITU-T, Japan)
Arnaud Taddei (Broadcom/ITU-T, USA)
Vicente Martin (U. P. Madrid/ETSI, EU)
TANIZAWA Yoshimichi (Toshiba, Japan)
Mathias van den Bossche (Thales, EU)
16:40 – 17:00 Coffee Break
Session 3: Quantum Communication in Space
17:00 – 17:20 “Towards Quantum Information Networks in Space”
Mathias van den Bossche (Thales)		 PDF
17:20 – 17:40 “Cutting Edge Technologies Facilitating Optical and Quantum Communication in Space”
Rudolph Louw (Honeywell)		 PDF
17:40 – 18:00 “Future Satellite QKD Service”
TANAKA Kentaro (SKY Perfect JSAT)		 PDF
18:00 – 18:05 Closing Remarks
TAKEOKA Masahiro (NICT)
Conference photo 18th Dec. 2019