Workshop on Quantum Technologies (WQT) – COMSNETS 2025

17^th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 6 – 10
Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bengaluru, India

The 20th century, often referred to as the information age, witnessed the first quantum revolution with the invention of transistors, superconducting levitation, atomic clocks, and superfluidity. There is a broad consensus that we are now at the cusp of a second quantum revolution, and that the 21st century will be even more disruptive with the development of new quantum technologies. By exploiting quantum resources such as superposition and entanglement, we can radically transform technologies from communication to computing. For instance, in the communication domain, quantum physics can offer the ultimate (information-theoretic) security; while for certain problems in computing, quantum computers can potentially offer speed-ups that are unattainable by their classical counterparts. Besides them, quantum sensing is another mature quantum technology that can offer sensors with sensitivities approaching the ultimate (Heisenberg) limit and highly miniaturized footprints,  imperceptible by their traditional counterparts. The very fragility of quantum states, which is a hindrance to their scalability in communication and computing, makes them invaluable sensors. The technological readiness levels of these offerings are improving so rapidly that some of them have already become commercially viable.

With 2025 set to be the International Year of Quantum Technologies celebrating the 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics, and after a highly successful launch of QCom(P), the first international workshop on Quantum Communication and Computing at COMSNETS 2024, we are now ready to make it bigger, better and more general. Hence, going forward, we have expanded the scope and now present the Workshop on Quantum Technologies (WQT), which will be co-located with COMSNETS 2025 and will encompass all 3 major drivers of quantum technology as of today: sensing, communications and computing. The aim of this workshop is to bring together quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, and programmers, from both academia and industry, working in this field. In this context, the workshop also intends to include the topic of understanding what it takes to bring more of the technology from an academic setting to real-world applications based on the industry requirements and technology development roadmap.

Call for Papers

Prospective participants are invited to submit their research contributions in the form of articles, surveys, tutorials, work-in-progress reports, extended abstracts, etc. that range from breakthrough ideas to real-world applications. This workshop would enable participants to present and discuss their accepted submissions via contributed talks and poster presentations.  WQT features both experimental and theoretical presentations. This workshop also comprises keynote addresses and invited talks on areas deemed topical and of special interest to the attendees. Finally, the workshop, along with a dedicated industry session, aims to serve as a forum to exchange ideas, present new results, connect and foster collaborations. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Quantum Computing:

• Qubit modalities – both theoretical and experimental results
• Hardware, platforms and architectures for quantum and hybrid computing
• Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing
• Software stacks, tools and programming languages for quantum-enhanced computing
• Error mitigation, error suppression and error management techniques
• Quantum algorithms for NISQ and beyond
• Hybrid gate-annealer-classical computing
• Quantum machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Quantum-enhanced optimization
• Quantum simulations and quantum chemistry
• Quantum-enhanced solutions for different applications and domains
• Benchmarking in the areas of quantum computing
• Quantum-inspired computing architecture
• Quantum-inspired classical algorithms

Quantum Sensing:

• Quantum magnetometry
• Quantum electrometry
• Quantum gravimetry
• Quantum inertial sensing (gyroscopy)
• Atomic clocks
• Quantum(-insipred) imaging
• Hybrid & intelligent quantum sensing
• Quantum-enhanced metrology
• Signal processing & AI for quantum sensing

Quantum Communication:

• Networked & distributed quantum computing and sensing
• Quantum for Blockchain and IoT
• Quantum communication and networks
• Quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography

Foundational topics of quantum technologies:

• Quantum complexity theory
• Quantum information theory
• Quantum estimation and detection