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Wehner group (TU Delft / QuTech)

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Institution
Delft University of Technology
Lab / Centre
QuTech (joint TU Delft + TNO) · Department of Quantum & Computer Engineering · Department of Software Technology
Location
Delft, Netherlands

Theory and protocols group at QuTech, the theory-side sibling to the Hanson experimental NV-network programme. Stephanie Wehner is co-author of RFC 9340, the IETF "Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet" document, and lead author of the canonical Wehner-Elkouss-Hanson Science 2018 "stages of a quantum internet" roadmap. The group works on link-layer and network-layer protocols, simulation (NetSquid), and integration testing on the QuTech testbed. Wehner serves as Roadmap Coordinator of the EU Quantum Internet Alliance and coordinates the Dutch QNetworks programme; she previously held a faculty position at CQT NUS before joining Delft.

Current focus: Quantum cryptography, communication and large-scale quantum networks — Per the QuTech profile (qutech.nl/person/stephanie-wehner): understanding the laws of quantum mechanics in order to construct better networks and computers, with extensive work in quantum cryptography and communication and current work with the Quantum Internet Alliance toward realising a large-scale quantum network.

Milestones

  1. 2022-20 Quantum Internet Alliance Phase 2 launched (Horizon Europe) press
  2. 2023-03 RFC 9340 — Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet (IRTF; Kozlowski, Wehner, Van Meter, Rijsman, Cacciapuoti, Caleffi, Nagayama) paper
  3. 2018-10 Wehner, Elkouss, Hanson — 'Quantum internet: A vision for the road ahead' (Science 362:eaam9288), the canonical six-stage quantum-internet roadmap paper

People

  • Stephanie Wehner — Principal Investigator · Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor · QIA Roadmap Coordinator (since 2014) ↗

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