XIV International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information organized by National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics of NAS of Belarus, and Belarusian Physical Society in the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT & LIGHT-BASED TECHNOLOGIES, 2015 will be held on October 27–30, 2015 in the city of Minsk on the base of Presidium of NAS of Belarus.

General idea of the conference is to bring together scientists and engineers from different fields (optics, atomic and molecular physics, solid state physics, computer science) which actively contribute to the field of Quantum Optics and Quantum information.

The traditional style for this Conference is the oral presentations followed by rather informal discussions during poster sessions. This International Conference will be the next one of a series of very successful meetings that were held during the last 30 years in Minsk in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, in Vilnius in 2008, and in Kyiv in 2010.

If you have joint projects with quantum optics and quantum information scientists in the FSU or plan to start such an activity, it is a good chance to choose this event for your local meeting with colleagues.

The main topics include

• Traditional Quantum optics problems, quantum imaging

• Materials and devices for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information:

• nanophotonics
• spintronics
• strong optical nonlinearities
• laser sources for quantum cryptography, including single photon sources and ultrashort pulse lasers
• single photon detectors
• single quantum objects (molecules, atoms, solid state impurities, quantum dots, electrons, electron and nuclear spins): detection, control and manipulation
• novel ultrafine processing techniques for QO and QI

• Entanglement

• characterization, creation and detection
• entanglement in many bodies systems
• metrology using entanglement

• Building hardware for scalable quantum computers

• trapped ions
• atomic systems (optical lattices)
• solid state systems
• photon based quantum information processing
• molecular systems

• Quantum memory and quantum repeaters

• Interfaces between photons and atomic qubits

• Quantum algorithms

• Quantum simulations

• Fiber-based and free-space QKD systems

Conference language: English.