Quantum Technologies for Information and Communication
A focused research partnership on Quantum for Telecommunications.
The Joint EDHEC/EURECOM Lab
The Joint EDHEC/EURECOM Lab on Quantum Technologies for Information and Communication brings together the EDHEC Quantum Institute and EURECOM to explore how quantum information science can reshape the future of telecommunications, network security and distributed information processing.
Quantum information represents a new frontier in information processing. For communication systems, the key question is how quantum-enhanced components, classical networks and future quantum protocols can progressively interact, coexist and create new capabilities.
The joint lab combines EDHEC expertise in quantum technologies, decision sciences and the strategic evolution of industries with EURECOM expertise in communication systems, networking, cybersecurity and information theory.
A research partnership on Quantum for Telecommunications
The lab focuses on the emerging interface between quantum technologies and telecommunications. Its ambition is to understand how quantum principles can contribute to more secure, more resilient and more capable communication infrastructures, from the physical layer to network architectures and distributed services.
This research is motivated by a practical observation: future networks will not be purely classical or purely quantum. They will be hybrid systems, in which classical infrastructure, quantum-enhanced devices, quantum channels and distributed quantum resources are integrated step by step.
Big questions
- How can quantum technologies strengthen the security, authenticity and resilience of future communication networks?
- How can quantum sensing improve signal detection, spectrum monitoring and receiver design?
- How can hybrid classical-quantum networks be designed, optimised and scaled?
- What role could entanglement distribution, quantum repeaters and teleportation protocols play in future network architectures?
- How can infrastructure operators and decision-makers understand the transition from classical networks to quantum-enhanced communication systems?
Research themes
Quantum-secure communications
The lab studies the security implications of quantum technologies for communication systems, including quantum key distribution, hybrid cryptographic protocols, quantum channels and device-level authentication mechanisms such as quantum physical unclonable functions. The emphasis is on integration, interoperability and the role of quantum technologies within real communication infrastructures.
Quantum sensing for telecommunications
Quantum sensing opens new possibilities for ultra-sensitive detection of electromagnetic fields, spectrum monitoring and next-generation receiver design. Research in this area includes technologies such as Rydberg atomic receivers and their potential relevance for future communication systems.
Quantum-assisted network performance
The lab explores whether quantum methods can contribute to network optimisation challenges such as routing, resource allocation, channel estimation, coding and error correction. The objective is to identify where quantum approaches may offer meaningful advantages, and under what technical conditions.
Towards quantum networks and distributed quantum services
In the longer term, quantum networks based on entanglement distribution, quantum repeaters and teleportation protocols may enable new forms of communication and distributed information processing. The lab studies the scientific and architectural challenges that could support this transition.
From research questions to future infrastructures
The Joint EDHEC/EURECOM Lab is built around a continuum between today’s communication systems and tomorrow’s quantum-enabled infrastructures.
By bringing together complementary academic expertise and developing research partnerships with leading industry players in related fields, the lab aims to clarify what quantum technologies can realistically bring to telecommunications, which barriers remain, and how future network architectures can be designed with security, performance and scalability in mind. The lab can support a range of collaboration formats for industry partners, including research chairs, sponsored research projects, doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, and joint experimental or proof-of-concept initiatives.
Researchers and publications
This initiative brings together researchers from the EDHEC Quantum Institute and EURECOM. The research team, affiliations and selected peer-reviewed publications will be listed here once validated by both institutions.
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