Research milestones, project launches, experiments, publications, outreach and institutional highlights across both sides of the QIQO community.
Preeti Yadav and Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro co-author a survey of quantum-safe cryptographic building blocks and migration strategies for telecommunications, the Internet of Things and blockchains. The preprint reviews applications and outstanding implementation challenges.
Read source ↗Participants in IPFN’s international PlasmaSurf programme visited QuMatt/MOTLab to learn about its experimental work on ultracold atoms and quantum plasmas.
Read source ↗QuLab demonstrated complete quantum keyless private communication over a 90 m rooftop free-space link at Instituto Superior Técnico in full daylight conditions, operating under strong background noise without an auxiliary classical synchronization channel.
Read source ↗A workshop at the Museu das Comunicações brought researchers and industry together to discuss quantum communications, opportunities and deployment challenges.
Read source ↗IberianQCI launched as a EuroQCI initiative to build secure quantum communication links between Portugal and Spain, including terrestrial and space infrastructure.
Read source ↗European fusion-science communicators visiting IPFN toured QuMatt/MOTLab alongside other major experimental facilities, highlighting the institute’s ultracold-atom and quantum-plasma capabilities.
Read source ↗QIQO was presented to the public as the joint QuMatt/MOTLab–QuLab platform, with visitors introduced to its infrastructure and quantum-technology research directions.
Read source ↗The Horizon Europe EIC Pathfinder project QuantumPUF launched a European effort to develop portable quantum physical unclonable functions for authentication.
Read source ↗The recently established QIQO laboratory represented quantum technologies at TIS 2026 alongside Técnico and IT innovation initiatives.
Read source ↗QIQO contributed a quantum communication demonstrator to Técnico’s defence-focused technology event.
Read source ↗PhD researchers from the QIQO ecosystem, including Carlo Alfisi and Gonçalo Teixeira, presented their work at Técnico’s 2025 PhD Open Days.
Read source ↗The PTQCI demonstration used QKD-protected links between Elvas, Portalegre and Badajoz, with QuLab participating in the experiment.
Read source ↗Work involving Hugo Terças revealed a previously overlooked axion-to-plasmon conversion pathway in magnetar environments, with implications for dark-matter searches.
Read source ↗QIQO was launched as the joint hub integrating QuMatt/MOTLab@GoLP/IPFN and QuLab@IT for quantum information, optics, matter and advanced training.
Read source ↗IT was recognised in the FCT partnership calls, including a quantum-communications project coordinated by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro.
Read source ↗The doctoral work on plasmonic instabilities in two-dimensional materials, supervised by Hugo Terças, was recognised in the Springer Theses collection.
Read source ↗IT highlighted its expanding portfolio of quantum-communication projects and collaborations, including work developed by the Lisbon quantum team.
Read source ↗The portable QKD outreach experiment by Pedro Neto Mendes, Paulo André and Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro was featured on the journal’s cover.
Read source ↗A new agreement established cooperation on research, development and applications for security in a quantum future.
Read source ↗IT highlighted QIQO-related work on quantum-inspired classification based on quantum-state discrimination.
Read source ↗A PTQCI workshop and summer school brought researchers together around free-space quantum communications and deployment.
Read source ↗The American Physical Society recognised Hugo Terças for exceptional contributions to peer review across the Physical Review journals.
Read source ↗High-school students visited QuLab to learn about quantum cryptography, quantum technologies and the future quantum internet.
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