Outputs

The QuRunner expect outputs are:

  • Papers in international journals (14/4)
  1. Mário Silva, Ricardo Faleiro, and Paulo Mateus, “Semi-device-independent quantum key distribution based on a coherence equality“: Submitted to Phys. Rev. A, 2021. (Download)
  2. R. Faleiro, N. Paunković, and M. Vojinović, “Operational interpretation of the vacuum and process matrices for identical particles”: accepted for publication in Quantum.
  3. N. Paunković and M. Vojinović, “Equivalence principle in classical and quantum mechanics”: Universe 8, 598, 2022.  https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8110598
  4. B. Mera, N. Paunković, S. T. Amin and V. R. Vieira, “Information geometry of quantum critical submanifolds: relevant, marginal and irrelevant operators”, Physical Review B 106, 155101, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155101
  5. Francesco Massa, P. Yadav, A. Moqanaki, W. Krawec, Paulo Mateus, Nikola Paunkovic, André Souto, and P. Walther, “Experimental Semi-quantum Key Distribution With Classical Users“: Quantum, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 819 – 819, September, 2022. https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-09-22-819
  6. Diogo Costa, Miguel Teixeira, Armando N. Pinto, José Santos, “High-Performance Blockchain System for Fast Certification of Manufacturing Data“: SN Applied Sciences 4, 25 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04909-6
  7. Daniel Pereira, Margarida Almeida, Margarida Facão, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Impact of Receiver Imbalances on the Security of Continuous Variables Quantum Key Distribution“, EPJ Quantum Technology, 8, 22, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-021-00112-z
  8. Margarida Almeida, Daniel Pereira, Nelson J. Muga, Margarida Facão, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Secret Key Rate of Multi-Ring M-APSK Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution“:  Opt. Express, 29, 38669-38682, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.439992 
  9. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, “Characterization of a Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations“:  Appl. Sci.  11(16), 7413, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11167413
  10. P. Branco, L. Fiolhais, M. Goulão, P. Martins, P. Mateus, and L. Sousa, “ROTed: Random Oblivious Transfer for embedded devices“: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2021, 4,215–238, 2021. https://doi.org/10.46586/tches.v2021.i4.215-238
  11. Bruno Costa, Pedro Branco, Manuel Goulão, Mariano Lemus, and Paulo Mateus, ”Randomized Oblivious Transfer for Secure Multiparty Computation in the Quantum Setting“: Entropy, 23, 1001, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23081001
  12. Isiaka A. Alimi, Romil K. Patel, Nuno A. Silva, Chuanbowen Sun, Honglin Ji, William Shieh, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, “A Tutorial on Simplified Optical Coherent Transceivers for 5G and Beyond Networks“: Appl. Sci.  11(16), 75541, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11167554
  13. Serena Di Giorgio , and Paulo Mateus, “On the Complexity of Finding the  Maximum Entropy Compatible Quantum State“: Mathematics, 9, 193, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9020193
  14. Margarida Almeida, Daniel Pereira, Margarida Facão, Armando N.  Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Impact of imperfect homodyne detection on measurements of vacuum states shot noise“: Optical and Quantum Electronics, 52:503, 1-13, 2020.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-020-02622-z
    • Communications in international scientific meetings (15/4)
    1. Nuno A. Silva, Maurício Ferreira, Marcos A. Carvalho, André Souto, Nikola Paunković, Paulo Mateus, António Teixeira, and Armando N. Pinto, “A Network Server for Distributing Quantum Random Numbers“: Submitted to International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), 2023. [Invited]
    2. Daniel Pereira, Nuno A. Silva, Margarida Almeida, and Armando N. Pinto, “Optimization of continuous variables quantum key distribution using discrete modulation“: SPIE Sensors + Imaging, Berlin, Germany, September, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2638896
    3. Pedro Branco, Nico Döttling, and Paulo Mateus, “Two-Round Oblivious Linear Evaluation from Learning with Errors”: In Proc. Hanaoka, G., Shikata, J., Watanabe, Y. (eds) Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2022. PKC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13177. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97121-2_14
    4. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, and Nelson J. Muga, “Efficient Randomness Extraction in Quantum Random Number Generators“: In Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil,  May, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223591
    5. Daniel Pereira, Nuno A. Silva, and Armando N. Pinto, “Impact of Shot Noise Estimation on the Secret Key Rate of a CV-QKD System“: In Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223559
    6. Hugo Costa, Nelson J. Muga, Nuno A. Silva, and Armando N. Pinto, “Optimization of a Polarization-Encoding System for Practical Quantum Key Distribution“: In Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, May, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223949
    7. Margarida  Almeida, Daniel Pereira, Nelson J. Muga, Margarida Facão, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “CV-QKD Security Limits Using Higher-Order Probabilistic Shaped Regular M-APSK Constellations“: In Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, May, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223560 [Best Paper Award]
    8. Sara T. Mantey, Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, “Demonstration of a Polarization encoding Quantum Key Distribution System“: In Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, May, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223562
    9. Daniel Pereira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, “A polarization diversity CV-QKD detection scheme for channels with strong polarization drift“. In Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering QCE 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE52317.2021.00082
    10. José Campos, and André Souto, “QBugs: A Collection of Reproducible Bugs in Quantum Algorithms and a Supporting Infrastructure to Enable Controlled Quantum Software Testing and Debugging Experiments“. In Proc. 2021 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE), Madrid, Spain, pp. 28-32, 2021. http://10.1109/Q-SE52541.2021.00013
    11. Maurício J. Ferreira, Daniel Pereira, Nelson J. Muga, Nuno A. Silva, and Armando N. Pinto, “Time-interleaved quantum random number generation within a coherent classical communication channel“. In Proc. of the 1st Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Uberlândia, Brazil, 16/08/2021. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2021.17225
    12. Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Nelson J. Muga, and Armando N. Pinto, “Reference Clock Signal Distribution for Quantum Key Distribution“. In Proc. of the 1st Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Uberlândia, Brazil, 16/08/2021. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2021.17224
    13. Margarida Almeida, Margarida Facão, Nelson J. Muga, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Secret key extraction in direct reconciliation CV-QKD systems“. In IEEE Proc. of ConfTele 2021, Leiria, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1109/ConfTELE50222.2021.9435567
    14. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, “Homodyne noise characterization in quantum random number generators“.  In IEEE Proc. of ConfTele 2021, Leiria, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1109/ConfTELE50222.2021.9435473
    15. Sara T. Mantey, Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, “Algorithm for State-of-Polarization Generation in Polarization-Encoding Quantum Key Distribution“. In IEEE Proc. of ConfTele 2021, Leiria, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1109/ConfTELE50222.2021.9435456 [Best Paper Award]
    16. Nuno A. Silva, Daniel Pereira, Nelson J. Muga, Armando N. Pinto, “Practical Imperfections Affecting the Performance of CV-QKD Based on Coherent Detection“. International Conference of Transparent Optical Network (ICTON), Bari, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 1 – 4, July, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203349 [Invited Talk]
    • Reports (1/2)
    1. First- year progress report: 01/02/2020 – 31/01/2021 (Download)
        • PhD Thesis (2/2)
          • In Progress
            1. Zeinab Rahmani: “Quantum Assisted Secure Multi-Party Computation”. Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro.
            2. Manuel Santos: “Development of Oblivious Transfer in Secure Multiparty Computation Platforms“. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa. 
            3. Daniel Pereira: “Design and Implementation of a Quantum Oblivious Key Generation and Distribution protocol using Continuous Variables”. Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro .
          • Finished
            1. Mariana Ramos: “Quantum Technologies to Support Secure and Fast Multiparty Computation”. Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro.
            2. Mariano Lemus: “Quantum correlations and applications to cryptography“. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa.
        • Master dissertations (4/4)
          • In Progress
          • Finished
            1. Maurício Ferreira: “Quantum-Noise Based True Random Number Generation“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
            2. Margarida Almeida: “Practical security limits of continuous-variable quantum key distribution“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
            3. Sara Mantey: “Controlo da polarização electro-óptico para aplicação em tecnologias quânticas“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro. (Download)
            4. Vítor Ferreira: “Eavesdropping Strategies for discrete modulated Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution protocols“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, 29/07/2020. (Download)
            • Undergraduate dissertations (6/0)
                • In Progress
                • Finished
                  1. João Ribeiro: “Distribuição de chave quântica com estados de
                    polarização gerados usando moduladores de fase“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
                  2. Mariana Almeida: “Impacto das imperfeições experimentais nos
                    sistemas de criptogra fia quântica baseados em fotões únicos“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
                  3. Tiago Amaral: “Trusted Noise in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, 16/09/2021. (Download)
                  4. Mariana Almeida: “Impacto das imperfeições experimentais nos sistemas de criptografia quântica baseados em fotões únicos“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, 16/09/2021. (Download)
                  5. João Machado: “Performance analisis of a single photon phase-coding quantum key distribution system“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, 26/07/2021. (Download)
                  6. Tiago Fernandes: “Optical Receiver: Modelling and Characterization“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, 01/10/2020. (Download)

             

            • Demonstrators/Laboratory  Prototypes (1/1)
            1. Working principle of the QRNG based on vacuum states.
              • Dissemination(4/0)

              1. We participated in the TICE Technological Exhibition (Information, Communication, and Electronic Technologies) on 25 January 2023. Organized by the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, the event aimed to promote technologies, products, and services. The Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG), developed under the Quantum Prime and QuRunner projects, was exhibited.

              2. We participate at the 30th-anniversary event of Instituto de Telecomunicações in Oeiras with our QRNG prototype.

              3. QuRunner project@ITNews – 19/01/2021

              4. QRNG demonstration at Aveiro TechDays from 15/10/2020 to 18/10/2020
              • Patents (0/1)