Quantum Computation and Communication Technology

ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology

The Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology will enhance and secure Australia’s lead in the global race to develop strategic information technologies based on the laws of quantum physics. Our success will establish access to unprecedented communications security and computing capability for Australia. It will enable Australia to participate in the information technology industry of the twenty-first century in a way that it failed to in the twentieth century. It will afford Australia with significant global prestige, and it will transform our nation’s knowledge base and our capacity for future innovation.




Funding: $24.5 million over 7 years
Centre Director: Prof Michelle Simmons
Administering Organisation: The University of New South Wales
Collaborating and Partner Organisations:

• The University of Melbourne
• The University of Queensland
• Griffith University
• The Australian National University
• The University of Sydney
• Defence Science and Technology Organisation/Defence Signals Directorate
• Quintessence Labs
• IBM Research
• Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University, Singapore
• University of Tokyo
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Purdue University
• Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
• Walter Schottky Institute
• Toshiba Research Europe
• Zyvex Laboratories
• Oxford University

Web-Site:  http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/ce/quantum_communication.htm