ACTIVE PROJECTS

EPIQUE — European Photonic Quantum Computer
Funding programme: Horizon Europe
Call: HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT 
Grant agreement no: 101135288 
Overall funding: € 10,340,741.50
Period: 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026
Coordinator: Sapienza Università di Roma (UNIROMA1), Italy
PIs: Fabio Sciarrino (Coordinator), Rinaldo Trotta
Partners:
UNIROMA1 Nanophotonics, Italy. PI: Rinaldo Trotta
UNIVIE, Austria. PI: Philip Walther
CNRS, France. PI: Pascale Senellart
DTU Denmark. PIs: Ulrik Andersen, Niels Gregersen
CNR, Italy. PI: Roberto Osellame
INL, Portugal. PI: Ernesto Galvão
UPB, Germany. PI: Christine Silberhorn
NASK, Poland. PI: Michał Oszmaniec
Single Quantum, Netherlands. PI: Mario Castaneda
QUANDELA, France. PI: Shane Mansfield
CEA, France. PI: Segolene Olivier
CVUT, Czechia. PI: Igor Jex
UHEI, Germany. PI: Wolfram Pernice
QUBIG, Germany. PI: Enrico Vogt
UNIFI, Italy. PI: Leonardo Banchi
UCC; Ireland. PI: Peter O’Brien
IMEC, Belgium. PI: Xin (Scott) Yin
NKT PHOTONICS, Denmark. PI: Patrick Bowen Montague

 

NQSTI – National Quantum Science & Technology Institute
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Technology
PNRR Partnenariato PE4

Rome Technopole
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Information 
PNRR
Flagship project on Quantum Key Distribution

PNRR CN1
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Computing 
Centro Nazionaledi Ricerca in HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing

QU-BOSS – Quantum advantage via non-linear Boson Sampling
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Computing 
Funding programme: ERC Advanced Grant 2019
Overall funding: 2.875,000.000 €
Period: 1 August 2020-31 July 2026
Principal Investigator: Fabio Sciarrino, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partners:
Roberto Osellame, IFN-CNR, Italy
Ernesto F. Galvão, INL, Spain

QLASS — Quantum Glass-based Photonic Integrated Circuits
Funding programme: Horizon Europe
Grant agreement no: 101135876     
Overall funding: € 5,994,221.59
Period: 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026
Coordinator: Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy
Partners:
Pixel, Germany
UNIROMA1, Italy
Ephos, Italy 
CNRS, France
SCHOTT AG, Germany

QUID – Quantum Italy Deployment
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Information 
Funding programme: DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01
Grant agreement no: 101091408
Period: 1 January 2023 – 30 June 2025
Coordinator: Davide Calonico, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM)
Partners: 18 partners
PI of the Sapienza Unit: Nicolò Spagnolo

QISS 2 – THE QUANTUM INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF SPACETIME, SECOND PHASE
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Foundations   
Funding programme: John Templeton Foundation
Grant agreement no: 62312
Period: 1 September 2022 – 31 May 2025

QU-DICE – QUantum ranDomness and sImulation proCEssing via non-linear boson sampling
Funding programme: FARE Ricerca in Italia, Ministero dell’istruzione e del merito
Overall funding: € 460,000
Period:  1 December 2022 – 3o November 2026
Principal Investigator: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Duration: 48 months
CINECA code: R20TRHTSPA

FORMER PROJECTS

3D-COUNT – 3D-Integrated single photon detectorLOGO-ERC
Funding programme: ERC-2015-Proof of Concept
Overall funding: € 150,000
Grant agreement no: 693604
Period: 01 February 2016-31 July 2017
Principal Investigator: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partner: CNR, Italy – R. Osellame & R. Leoni

3D-QUEST – 3D-Quantum Integrated Optical Simulation3d quest
Funding programme: ERC Starting Grant-Consolidator
Overall funding: € 1,474,800
Grant agreement no: 307783
Period: 1 August 2012-31 July 2017
Principal Investigator: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partner: CNR, Italy – R. Osellame

AQUASIM – Advanced Quantum Simulation and MetrologyAquasimLogo
Funding programme: PRIN – Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
Period: 8 March 2014 – 8 March 2017
Overall funding: € 250,000
Funding to Quantum Information Lab: € 74,205 (total eligible costs: € 106,007) download
Scientific Coordinator: Leonardo FALLANI
Scientific Responsible: Fabio SCIARRINO

AWS Cloud Credits for Research: Amazon Braket
Funded by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Research led by Prof. Fabio Sciarrino, Sapienza Università di Roma
Period: 1 November 2020-31 October 2021

Amaldi Research Center
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Computing
Funded by: Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Universita e della Ricerca “Dipartimento di Eccellenza”
Grant agreement no.: CUP:B81I18001170001

CAPABLE – Composite integrated photonic platform by femtosecond laser micromachining
Funding programme: ERC Advanced Grant 2016
Overall funding: € 2,300,000
Funding to Quantum Information Lab: € 300,000
Period: 1 October 2017 – 30 September 2022
Principal Investigator: Roberto Osellame, IFN-CNR
Partner: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”

PHOQUSING – PHOTONICS QUANTUM SAMPLING MACHINE
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Information; Quantum Computing
Funding programme: HORIZON 2020
Call: H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020/H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
Grant agreement no: 899544
Overall funding: 3,305,955.00 €
Period: 1 September 2020 – 31 August 2024
Coordinator: Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy. PI: Fabio Sciarrino
Partners:
IFN-CNR, Italy. PI: Roberto Osellame
LIN INL, Portugal. PI: Ernesto F. Galvão
CNRS, France. PI: Pascale Senellart
QUIX, Germany. PI: Jelmer Renema
Sorbonne Université, France. PI: Elham Kashefi
Veriqloud, France. PI: Marc Kaplan

PHORBITECH – A Toolbox for Photon Orbital Angular Momentum Technology
Funding programme: Future Emerging Technologies FET-Open (Seventh Framework Programme, call FP7-ICT-2009-C)
Period: 1 October 2010 – 30 September 2013
Coordinator: Lorenzo Marrucci, Università di Napoli Federico II
Partners:
Università di Napoli Federico II. PI: Lorenzo Marrucci
Sapienza Università di Roma. PI: Fabio Sciarrino
Institut de Ciences Fotoniques. PI: Juan P. Torres
University of Glasgow. PI: Miles Padgett
University of Bristol. PI: Jeremy O’Brien
Universiteit Leiden. PI: Han Woerdman
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. PI: Stephen Walborn

PHOSPhOR – Photonics of Spin–Orbit Optical Phenomenaerclogomod
Funding programme: ERC Advanced Grant 2015
Overall funding: € 1,700,000
Funding to Quantum Information Lab: € 190,000
Period: 1 June 2016 – 30 November 2021
Principal Investigator: Lorenzo Marrucci, Università di Napoli Federico II
Partner: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”

PICQUE – Project (Photonic Integrated Compound Quantum Encoding)logo
Funding programme: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN
Overall funding: € 3,972,238
Funding to Quantum Information Lab: € 558,738
Grant agreement no: 608062
Period: 1 September 2013-31 August 2017
Coordinator: Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partners:
University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy – PI: F. Sciarrino
University of Oxford , UK – PI: I. Walmsley
CNRS, France – PI: S. Tanzilli
University of Jena, Germany – PI: A. Szameit
University of Vienna, Austria – PI: P. Walther
University of Paderborn, Germany – PI: C. Silberhorn
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands – PI: A. Fiore
IFN-CNR, Italy – PIs: R. Osellame & R. Leoni
University of Bristol, UK – PIs: M. Thompson and J. O’Brien
Toshiba Research Europe, UK – PI: A. Shields

Q-CAUSAL – Causality in the quantum world: harnessing quantum effects in causal inference problems
Funding programme: John Templeton Foundation- Call 2018
Overall funding: $ 207,550
Grant agreement no: 61084
Period: 1 September 2018 – 31 January 2022
Coordinator: PI: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partner: Co-PI: Prof. Rafael Chaves, International Institute of Physics (IIP-UFRN)- Natal- Brazil

QISS – Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime
Funding programme: John Templeton Foundation – 2019-2022
Starting date: 1 December 2019
Partners:
Université d’Aix-Marseille
University of Oxford
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Université Libre de Bruxelles
University of Hong Kong
Penn State University, State College
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia
University of Western Ontario
University of Vienna
Perimeter Institute, Waterloo
Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Jagiellonian University, Crakow
University of California San Diego

HIPHOP – High dimensional quantum Photonic Platform
Funding programme: QuantERA Call 2017
Coordinator: Pascale Senellart (CNRS, Délégation Régionale Ile-de-France Secteur Sud, FR)
Partners:
Philip Walther (University of Vienna, AT)
Roberto Osellame and Fabio Sciarrino (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT)
Ian Walmsley (University of Oxford, UK)
Mario Ziman (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK)

QUCHIP – Quantum Simulation on a Photonic Chip logo-quchip
Funding programme: FETPROACT-3-2014: Quantum simulation
Overall funding: € 2,681,714
Funding to Quantum Information Lab: € 431,250
Grant agreement no: 641039
Period: 1 March 2015-28 February 2018
Coordinator: Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partners:
 University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy – PI: F. Sciarrino
University of Bristol, UK – PI:  A. Laing
University of Oxford , UK – PI: I. Walmsley
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy – PIs: R. Osellame & R. Leoni
University of Vienna, Austria – PI: P. Walther
University of Paderborn, Germany – PI: C. Silberhorn
University of Ulm, Germany – PI: S. Huelga
University of Bruxelles, Belgium – PI: N.J. Cerf
University of Southampton, UK – PI: A. Politi

QUSHIP – Taming complexity with quantum strategies: a hybrid integrated photonics approach
Quantum Lab Laboratory: Quantum Information  
Funding programme: PRIN 2017 (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale)
Grant agreement no.: 2017SRNBRK
Overall funding:€ 903,820
Period: 29 August 2019 – 28 August 2022
Coordinator: Fabio Sciarrino, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Partners:
Sapienza Università di Roma. PI: Fabio Sciarrino
Politecnico di Milano. PI: Andrea Crespi
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. PI: Vittorio Giovannetti
Università degli Studi di Salerno. PI: Fabrizio Illuminati
Università degli Studi di Palermo. PI: Massimo Palma
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. PI: Saverio Pascazio

SINFONIA – Trattamento SIcuro dei dati mediante l’iNFOrmazione con singoli fotoNI A richiesta
Funding programme: Lazio Innova, Regione Lazio
Funding to Quantum Information Lab: € 74,910.30
Period: 1 September 2018 – 28 January 2021
Coordinator: Antonio Polimeni, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza
PI of Quantum Information lab: Fabio Sciarrino, Department of Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza