Outputs

  • Papers in international journals (11/9)
    1. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, "Statistical Validation of a Physical Prime Random Number Generator Based on Quantum Noise", Appl. Sci Vol. 13, no 23, 12619, (2023). DOI: 10.3390/app132312619.
    2. Margarida Almeida, Daniel Pereira, Margarida Facão, Armando N. Pinto and Nuno A. Silva, "Reconciliation Efficiency Impact on Discrete Modulated CV-QKD Systems Key Rates", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 41, pp. 6134, (2023). DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2023.3280076.
    3. Daniel Pereira, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, "Polarization Diverse True Heterodyne Receiver Architecture for Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology Vol. 41, pp. 432-439, (2023). DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3216754.
    4. Francesco Massa, Preeti Yadav, Amir Moqanaki, Walter O. Krawec, Paulo Mateus, Nikola Paunković, André Souto, and Philip Walther, "Experimental Semi-quantum Key Distribution With Classical Users", Quantum Vol. 6, pp. 819, (2022). DOI: 10.22331/q-2022-09-22-819.
    5. Manuel Santos, Paulo Mateus, Armando N. Pinto, "Quantum Oblivious Transfer: A Short Review", Entropy Vol. 24, no 7, pp. 945, (2022). DOI: 10.3390/e24070945.
    6. Ricardo Faleiro, Nikola Paunkovic, and Marko Vojinovic, "Operational interpretation of the vacuum and process matrices for identical particles", Quantum Journal, Vol. 7, pp. 986, (2023). Doi: 10.22331/q-2023-04-20-986
    7. N. Paunković and M. Vojinović, “Equivalence principle in classical and quantum mechanics”, Universe Vol. 8, pp. 598, (2022). DOI: 10.3390/universe8110598.
    8. 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 Vol. 106, pp. 155101, (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155101.
    9. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, "Characterization of a Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations", Appl. Sci Vol. 11, no 16, 7413, (2021). DOI: 10.3390/app11167413.
    10. 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 Vol. 4, 215–238 (2021). DOI: 10.46586/tches.v2021.i4.215-238.
    11. Bruno Costa, Pedro Branco, Manuel Goulão, Mariano Lemus and Paulo Mateus, "Randomized Oblivious Transfer for Secure Multiparty Computation in the Quantum Setting", Entropy Vol. 23, no. 1, 1001 (2021). DOI: 10.3390/e23081001.
  • Papers in national journals (0/1)
  • Communications in international scientific meetings (8/6)
    1. Nuno A. Silva, Maurício J. Ferreira, André Carvalho, André Souto, Nikola Paunkovic, Paulo Mateus, António Teixeira, Armando N. Pinto, "A Network Server for Distributing Quantum Random Numbers", ICTON 2023, Bucarest, Romania 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207372.
    2. Maurício J. Ferreira, André Carvalho, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, Nelson J. Muga, "Probable Prime Generation from a Quantum Randomness Source", ICTON 2023, Bucarest, Romania 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207550.
    3. Sara T. Mantey, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, "AI-Assisted Polarization Basis Alignment for Quantum Key Distribution System Receivers", ICTON 2023, Bucarest, Romania 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ICTON59386.2023.10207321.
    4. Daniel Pereira, Armando N. Pinto, and Nuno A. Silva, "Optimization of continuous variables quantum key distribution using discrete modulation", SPIE Sensors + Imaging, Berlin, Germany September, (2022). DOI: 10.1117/12.2638896.
    5. Hugo F. Costa, Nelson J. Muga, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, "Optimization of a Polarization-Encoding System for Practical Quantum Key Distribution", SBRC Workshop de Comunicação e Computação Quântica WQuantum, Fortaleza, Brazil May, (2022). (Download)
    6. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, and Nelson J. Muga, "Efficient Randomness Extraction in Quantum Random Number Generators", SBRC Workshop de Comunicação e Computação Quântica WQuantum, Fortaleza, Brazil May, (2022). (Download)
    7. Sara T. Mantey, Mariana F. Ramos, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, Nelson J. Muga, "Demonstration of a Polarization encoding Quantum Key Distribution System", SBRC Workshop de Comunicação e Computação Quântica WQuantum, Fortaleza, Brazil May, (2022). (Download)
    8. 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, (2022). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97121-2_14.
  • Communications in national scientific meetings (1/3)
    1. Maurício J. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, and Nelson J. Muga, "Quantum-Noise Based True Random Number Generation", Iberic Meeting of Optics Students (IMOS), Aveiro, Portugal June, (2022). (Download)
  • Reports (2/3)
    1. First-year progress report (02/2022)
    2. Second-year progress report (02/2023)
  • Organization of seminars and conferences (2/3)
    1. Organization of the Third Workshop on Quantum Communications (QC) co-located with ICTON 2023 - “23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks”, Bucharest, Romania, July 2-6, 2023.
    2. Organization of the Second Quantum Techday Quantum Techday 2023 - Instituto de Telecomunicações and University of Aveiro, Portugal, March 13, 2023.(Download)
  • PhD Thesis (1/2)
    1. Maurício Ferreira: “Quantum Random Number Generation for Cryptographic Applications“. Departament of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro.
    2. Hugo Costa: “Optimization of Practical Discrete Variable Quantum Key Distribution Systems“. Departament of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro.
    3. Manuel Santos: “Quantum Private Data Mining“. Departament of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
    4. Daniel Pereira: “Analysis and Optimization of Continuous Variables Quantum Cryptographic Systems“. Departament of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, (07/2023).
  • Master dissertations (1/3)
    1. Maurício Ferreira: “Quantum-Noise Based True Random Number Generation“. Departament of Physics, University of Aveiro.
  • Undergraduate dissertations (3/0)
    1. Julio Marcos Monzón Baldetti: Certification of a Quantum Random Number Generator using Machine Learning. Departament of Physics, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
    2. Mariline Costa: Monitoring the Photon Source Statistics in Discrete-Variable Quantum Key Distribution. Departament of Physics, University of Aveiro.
    3. Diogo Salgueiro: Impact of optical and electronic noise fluctuation on the performance of Quantum Key distribution systems. Departament of Physics, University of Aveiro.
    4. Bernardo Lobo: Coherent Heterodyne Detection in quantum key distribution systems. Departament of Physics, University of Aveiro.
  • Models (1/1)
    1. Maurício Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva, Armando N. Pinto, and Nelson J. Muga, "Maximization of random bits extraction rate using a dgitalized parallel quantum random number generator".
  • Software (1/1)
    1. Maurício Ferreira, Marcos André Carvalho, Nuno A. Silva, and Armando N. Pinto, "From true quantum random bits to random prime numbers".
  • Demonstrators/Laboratory Prototypes (2/2)
    1. Demonstrator of the network server developed and implemented in the framework of the QuantumPrime project, and running at Instituto de Telecomunicações – Aveiro.
    2. Prototype of the Quantum Random Number Generator developed and implemented in the framework of the QuantumPrime project, and running in our laboratory at the Optical Quantum Communications Group at Instituto de Telecomunicações – Aveiro.

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