Outputs

The QUESTS expect outputs are:

• Papers in international journals (18/6)

1. Zeinab Rahmani, Luis S. Barbosa, Armando N. Pinto, “Quantum Privacy-Preserving Service for Secure Lane Change in Vehicular Networks”: Submitted to IET Quantum Communications, 2022
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. Daniel Pereira, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Polarization Diverse True Heterodyne Receiver Architecture for Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution“:  IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 41, pp. 432-439, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2022.3216754
6. Daniel Pereira, Margarida Almeida, Margarida Facão, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Probabilistic shaped 128-APSK CV-QKD transmission system over optical fibres“: Optics Letters, vol. 47, pp. 4938 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.456333
7. 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
8. Mariana F. Ramos, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Polarization based discrete variables quantum key distribution via conjugated homodyne detection“: Scientific Reports, 12, pp. 6135, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10181-4
9. Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Nelson J. Muga, and Armando N. Pinto, “Full polarization random drift compensation method for quantum communications“: Optics Express, 30, pp. 6907-6920, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.445228
10. Diogo Costa, Miguel Teixeira, Armando N. Pinto, José Santos, “High-Performance Blockchain System for Fast Certification of Manufacturing Data“: Accepted for publication on Cluster Computing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04909-6
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23081001
15. Manuel B. Santos, Armando N.  Pinto, and Paulo Mateus,”Quantum and classical oblivious transfer: A comparative analysis“: IET Quantum Communication, 1-12, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1049/qtc2.12010
16. 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
17. 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
18. M. Lemus, M. F. Ramos, P. Yadav, N. A. Silva, N. J. Muga, A. Souto, N. Paunković, P. Mateus and A. N. Pinto, “Generation and distribution of quantum oblivious keys for secure multiparty computation”, Applied Sciences 10, 4080 , 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10124080

• Communications in international scientific meetings (14/8)

1. 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
2. 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
3. Zeinab Rahmani, Luis S. Barbosa, Armando N. Pinto, “Collision Warning in Vehicular Networks Based on Quantum Secure Multiparty Computation“. Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223569
4. Sara T. Mantey, Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, Nelson J. Muga, “Demonstration of a Polarization -encoding Quantum Key Distribution System“. Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223562
5. Pedro Branco, Nico Döttling, and Paulo Mateus, “Two-Round Oblivious Linear Evaluation from Learning with Errors“. In: 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
6. Daniel Pereira,  Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, “Impact of Shot Noise Estimation on the Secret Key Rate of a CV-QKD System“. Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223559
7. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, Nelson J. Muga, “Efficient Randomness Extraction in Quantum Random Number Generators“. Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223591
8. Hugo Costa, Nelson J. Muga, Nuno A. Silva, and Armando N. Pinto, “Optimization of a Polarization-Encoding System for Practical Quantum Key Distribution“, Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223949
9. 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“. Proc. of the 2nd Communication and Quantum Computing Workshop (WQuantum), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2022. [Best Paper Award]. https://doi.org/10.5753/wquantum.2022.223560
10. Margarida Almeida,  Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva,  “CV-QKD Imperfections Impact on Shot-Noise Measurement“. Proc. of the first Iberic Meeting of Optics Students (IMOS) 2022. (Download)
11. Sara T. Mantey, Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, “Demonstration of an Algorithm for Quantum State Generation in Polarization-Encoding QKD Systems“. OSA Optical Fiber Communications – OFC, San Diego, United States, March, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2022.M3I.3
12. Daniel Pereira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, “A polarization diversity CV-QKD detection scheme for channels with strong polarization drift“. Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering QCE 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE52317.2021.00082
13. 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 [Best Paper Award]. https://doi.org/10.1109/ConfTELE50222.2021.9435456
14. 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/ConfTELE50222.2021.9435567

• Reports (1/2)

1. First- year progress report: 01/02/2020 – 31/01/2021 (Download)

• PhD Thesis (5/5)
  • 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. Mariano José Lemus Hernandèz: “Asymmetric Quantum Cryptography and Multipartite Correlations”. Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico.
    2. Ricardo André Faleiro Miguel: “Nonlocality and Contextuality: Concepts and Applications in Quantum Information”. Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico.
    3. Mariana Ramos: “Quantum Technologies to Support Secure and Fast Multiparty Computation”. Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro.
       
    4. Serena Di Giorgio: “On the efficiency of recovering density operators from direct quantum correlations via Jaynes principle”. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa.
    5. Preeti Yadav: “Practical quantum privacy protocol“. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa.

• Master dissertations (4/4)
  • Finished
    1. Hugo Costa:”Quantum communication systems supported by electronic polarization controllers“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra.
    2. Luís Martins: “Characterization of electro-optic polarization controllers for discrete-variable quantum communications transmitters“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra.
    3. Margarida Almeida: “Practical security limits of continuous-variable quantum key distribution”. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
    4. Maurício Ferreira: “Quantum-Noise Based True Random Number Generation”. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
    5. Sara Mantey: “Electro-Optic Polarization Control Techniques for
       Quantum Technologies”. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro. (Download)

• Undergraduate dissertations (5/6)
  • • In Progress
      1. Bernardo Lobo: “Deteção coerente heteródina em sistemas de distribuição de chaves quânticas“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro.
    • Finished
      1. Oumayma Ben Khalifa: “Implementation Of Quantum SMC Use-Case for
         VANETs”. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro and Higher Institute Of Computer Science El Manar, 2022. (Download)
      2. Diogo Malheiro: “Gerador de impulsos curtos baseado em modulação direta para comunicações quânticas“. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro. 07/2021. (Download)
      3. Tiago Amaral: ”Distribuição de Chave Quântica com Variáveis Contínuas: Modulação Discreta e Caracterização de Ruído“. 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. 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 (3/1) 
  • • Use cases
      1. Quantum Privacy‐Preserving Service for Secure Lane Change in Vehicular Networks (Download)
      2. Quantum Location Privacy-Preserving Service for Ad Hoc Vehicular Network (Download)
      3. Quantum Privacy-Preserving Accident Location with Non-Repudiation. https://github.com/manel1874/QMP-SPDZ