50th Intl. Nathiagali Summer College

Activity - IV: Quantum Technologies
(23rd - 28th June, 2025)

Quantum technologies are an emerging field that applies the principles of quantum mechanics to create innovative tools, systems, and processes. These technologies leverage phenomena like superposition, entanglement and quantum tunneling to achieve capabilities beyond the limits of classical systems. Quantum Technologies provides advantages of Unmatched Computing Power leading to tackling of problems previously considered unsolvable, Ultra-Secure Communication providing Virtually un-hackable systems and Precision creating highly accurate sensors for real-world applications.

With the development of Quantum Computers, and with the availability of tremendous computational and data processing potential, almost all of the hard or intractable scientific, technological and engineering problem will become potentially manageable within no time and, hence will open unimaginable new vistas for technical innovations along with the real time simulations of the complex, multiplayer strategic situations.

Similarly, on the forefronts of data security and uninterrupted, reliable, and entirely secure communications, the quantum cryptography has, by now, turned into a mature technology with the establishment and demonstration of an efficient quantum mechanically backed secure channel among the earth and the satellites. For the next phase, i.e. for quantum direct communications, quantum multiparty communicational webs and quantum internet both theoretical and experimental research is underway right now.

Furthermore, teleportation is no more a science fictions theme and the quantum teleportation has successfully demonstrated its potential for instantaneous transportation of basic features of one quantum entity to the other spatio-temporally separated quantum system without invoking any material channel between them. Same is the status of lot many other current technologies including sensors and time/frequency standards, all of which will improve many orders of magnitude in precision. The portable gravimeter based on quantum interference of specifically engineered atomic samples has a precision of nGal (10-9) and it is capable of detecting and diagnosing minute density changes caused by different mineral lying deep into the earth crust from the sea or earth’s surface.

A week-long activity on Quantum Technologies will serve as an intellectual bridge to join the scientific community of the subject and help to cope with the stringent needs and challenges presented by this fascinating and somewhat mystifying subject.


Faculty:

Name
Lectures
Kadir Durak
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Özyeğin University, Istanbul
Lecture 1: Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography: Security Realities in the Quantum Era
Lecture 2: Entanglement-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing: Towards Quantum-Enhanced PNT Systems
Dr. Jean Loup
Experimental Quantum Team Lead at Alice & Bob Paris, France
Lecture 1: From Atomic Physics to superconducting circuits
Lecture 2: Engineering two-photon dissipation and dissipative cat qubits
Lecture 3: Quantum error correction and towards quantum computing
Biao Tang (online)
Professor
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, China
Lecture 1: Atom Interferometry--Principle, Realization and Applications
Lecture 2: Absolute Gravimeter with Atom Interferometry--Setup and Measurement
Peng Xu (online)
Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Lecture 1: The basic concepts of quantum computing using single-neutral-atoms
Lecture 2: The physical realization and recent progress of the key technologies of neutral-atom quantum computing. Development of neutral-atom quantum computation will be presented.
Saleem Ghaffar Rao
Associate Professor
Department of Physics, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Lecture 1: Sources of Coherent Losses in Superconducting Quantum Circuits
Lecture 2: Mitigating Coherent Loss in Superconducting Circuits using Molecular Self-Assembled Monolayers
Hyunchul Nha
Professor
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Lecture 1: Quantum non-Gaussianity and quantum entanglement
Lecture 2: Quantum entanglement in Quantum thermodynamics
Lecture 3: Collective quantum entanglement in optical lattice
Lecture 4: Quantum entanglement in Rydberg atom arrays
He Ran
Hefei Unitary Quantum Technology Co., Ltd., Hefei, China
Lecture 1: Advancement in Ion Trap Quantum Computing-II
Lecture 2: Advancement in Ion Trap Quantum Computing-II
Alper Özülker
Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 50th International Nathiagali Summer College, 2025. Details
  • 50th INSC, 2025. Registration Form Details