The York Research Database

Impacts

• Written and oral evidence submitted by the Quantum Communications Hub Director, Professor Tim Spiller, to a Science & Technology Committee inquiry into quantum technologies (spring/summer 2018).

  Impact

Activities

• Quantum Technologies Stakeholder meeting (Event)

  Activity: Membership › Panel

• Single-day quantum technologies workshop on Defence & Security 

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Workshop

• High Level formal lunch debate on Quantum Technologies: Entangling Europe for Innovation, European Parliament, Belgium

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Debate

• Spiller T. Invited public talk on quantum communications technologies and the work of the Hub for the York Physics Society (Physsoc, 20/10/15)

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture

• National Quantum Showcase 2015: Invited talk, "Quantum Communications Hub, UK National Quantum Technology Programme"

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture

• Participation at Enigma Club session (quantum communications and security), during BT's Innovation Week, Adastral Park, June 12-16, 2017

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk

• Business Opportunities for Quantum Technologies

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk

• The UK Quantum Communications Hub and the implications for Cyber Security

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk

• Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation

• Spiller T. Invited talk (“National Network of Quantum Technologies Hubs: Developments with the UK Quantum Communications Hub”) at the 2nd UK-Japan Technology Workshop (Quantum Communications), Tokyo, Japan, 15-18 March 2016.

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Workshop

• Spiller T. Invited talk (“Quantum secure communication technologies”) at the Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century research workshop, Kavli Royal Society Centre, UK, 11-12 May 2016.

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Workshop

• Invited talk: "Quantum Technologies and their implications for Cyber Security" at the European Cybersecurity: Future Trends and Policy Challenges single-day workshop organised by the Department of Politics and International Relations (Oxford Cyber Studies Programme) and the European Commission.

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Workshop

• Invited talk at 5th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe International Workshop: "UK Perspective: The Quantum Communications Hub"

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk

• "National Network of Quantum Technologies Hubs: Quantum Communications Hub", public talk at Adastral Park, Ipswich

  Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (general)

• "Towards a European quantum technology industry" single-day workshop

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course

• Spiller T (Personal invitation as keynote or other named speaker to a conference): Invited talk ((“Overview of the EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub”) at Quantum Symposium organised by the British High Commission in Singapore in collaboration with the Centre for Quantum Technologies and the National University of Singapore, Singapore, 26-27 March 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Symposium

• Spiller T. Keynote address (“Quantum Communications and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme”) at the IPAQS Symposium, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 19 May 2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Symposium

• Conference of Astronomy and Physics Students (CAPS) 2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation

• Expert Round Table on Future Technologies and Innovations (Quantum)

  Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (social community and cultural engagement)

• Quantum UK 2015 Conference

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation

• Spiller T. Quantum Technologies: the UK Quantum Communications Hub. Invited talk and participation in panel discussion at Quantum Communication, What can Quantum Technology do for a data hungry society? Workshop, UCL, London, 2 April 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Invited talk ("Quantum Communications Technologies") at special quantum communications session ahead of evening reception at Canada House organised by Innovate UK to celebrate the arrival of Canadian quantum delegation in the UK

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Invited talk ("Quantum Technologies and their Implications for Security") at Network Rail: Future Communications & Positioning Systems Advisory Group meeting

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Invited Lecture ("Quantum Communications Technologies and the UK Quantum Communications Hub") at the QUICC Summer School 2018 - The annual summer school on Quantum Information, Computing and Control organised by Imperial College London

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture

• Launch of the UK Quantum Network (Cambridge arm)

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Symposium

• 3rd Quantum Technology - Implementations for Space Workshop (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course

• Consultation on quantum technologies (quantum communications) following an invitation from the Future Sectors Team, BEIS (UK Government) ahead of internal review of quantum technologies.

  Activity: Other

• Participation in oral evidence giving panel in front of Science & Technology Select Committee as part of the Committee inquiry into quantum technologies (University of Glasgow, 28/06/18)

  Activity: Other

• QCrypt 2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation

• 2018 National Quantum Technologies Showcase

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Exhibition

• Invited Keynote Address ("Quantum Technologies and Their Implication for Cyber Security") at Cyber Security and Quantum Computing Symposium, Malvern Festival of Innovation, Great Malvern

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Invited talk ("Quantum Communications Technologies") at the Department for International Trade, UK Government (Whitehall, London)

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Participation in panel discussion "Life in the Quantum Age" during special session at the 2018 York Festival of Ideas

  Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (general)

• Participation in UK Quantum Technology Expert Delegation to Canada

  Activity: Visiting an external institution › Other

• Invited talk "Quantum Communications Technologies" at the GRADnet Quantum Technologies School (Liphook, Hampshire, 24-26 April 2017)

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Spiller represented the Quantum Communications Hub at the Responsible Innovation in Quantum Technologies workshop, Royal Society, London, 17 March 2015. The event was organised by the London Nanotechology Centre and EPSRC. Further input was provided towards the compilation of a meeting report.

  Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (general)

• Interview with Tim Spiller ("Has The Age Of Quantum Computing Arrived?") by Laura Cox for D/SRUPTION online blog

  Activity: Other › Media (Other online)

• Spiller T. Invited talk at the York Talks 2016 (Research in the Spotlight) event, York, (6/01/16).

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture

• Spiller T. Invited talk on quantum communications technologies and the Quantum Communications Hub as part of a meeting organised by NPL (EMTECH Quantum Technologies Briefing Seminar; 24/02/16). The aim of the meeting was to brief officials from Government departments on the impact quantum technologies could have on government policy and procurement, and to help them consider how government can accelerate the UK quantum industry.

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Seminar

• Quantum Europe: a New Era of Technology

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation

• Quantum Random Number Generators workshop

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course

• Spiller T. Quantum technologies and their implications for security. Invited talk at Loughborough University, 14 March 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Quantum Communications Hub

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Quantum Technology: Implementations for Space Workshop organised by the Technical and Quality Management Directorate of the European Space Agency

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course

• Spiller T (Influenced training of practitioners or researchers). Acted as advisor on National STEM Learning Centre pilot scheme production of set of innovative learning resources aimed at secondary school (A level) education professionals.

  Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (schools)

• CSaP Policy Workshop: Future threats and challenges of quantum technologies

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course

Research outputs

• Higher-dimensional performance of port-based teleportation

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Hybrid photonic loss resilient entanglement swapping

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Continuous variable quantum key distribution with multi-mode signals for noisy detectors

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Keyring models: an approach to steerability

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Long-distance continuous-variable quantum key distribution with quantum scissors

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Homodyne detector blinding attack in continuous-variable quantum key distribution

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article