Electronic interface control for quantum communications system using LabVIEW

• Main Author: Koh, Jonathan Yang Quan
• Other Authors: Liu Ai Qun
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141988
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this modern era where technology is growing fast and with more people owning mobile phones, the use of postal service has dropped due to the pervasive availability of free email, social media, and chat applications. Communication through mobile phones or other devices utilizes the method of data transmission which is the transfer of information in the form of signals over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. However, as with any network, such communication is susceptible to cyberattacks and data breaches. Science has really come a long way and around the late 20th century, quantum information science (QIS) which is the merger of information theory and computation as well as quantum mechanics was discovered. QIS will play a key role in revolutionizing technology in the coming years and with the many useful properties relating to science that it provides; it is set to be a building block of many future technologies to come. Already, there are multiple big-name companies around the world attempting to utilize quantum technology although there is still much research needed to be done as the implementation of QIS will stretch the technological skills and scientific understanding to their breakpoint. To explore the basis of the methodology behind QIS, an electronic interface control can be designed to help understand QIS or to be more precise, quantum communication. As of right now, there have been various software implementations demonstrating the application of quantum communication. In this project, the study of these implementations will be conducted and a software control system for quantum communication will be developed and its performance is then evaluated.