Padua SQI26 is to bring together researchers and technologists interested in proposing or realizing experiments of quantum science in space, or to develop instruments or technology aimed to operate in space or along free-space links as validators or proofs of concept. The domain is broad: fundamental tests, space-based science, quantum sensing & PNT, computing, and communication, plus a session on industrial support.
The idea is to work together to envisage the most promising and advanced satellite, ground station, links concepts and functionalities to aim at meaningful and realistic experiments or realization of quantum information protocols in space or between space and ground networks.
Participants shall contribute with ideas and possible solutions, seeking for potential synergies with others to enhance the impact and the concreteness of a proposal, in order to make it suitable for being proposed to an Agency for its realization.
The following topics (non-exhaustive) are within the scope of the workshop:
- Space-based Fundamental Physics utilising Quantum Technologies and/or probing Quantum Effects
- Satellite entanglement distribution and distributed quantum information processing
- Multipoint space quantum communications
- Space-based Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Communications beyond QKD
- Quantum Sensing/PNT utilising Space Assets
- Space-based experiments with quantum memories/repeaters
- Space-based experiments with different physical systems: ensemble cold-atom systems, neutral atoms/ions, superconducting, solid state quantum
- Quantum Technologies for Space-based Science