Original papers are sought on, but not restricted to the following categories and topics.
Cybersecurity in Post-Quantum World 

• quantum key distribution and quantum data encryption

• quantum digital signatures

• finite-key security analysis for general attacks

• device-independent security proofs

• security proofs for DV and CV QKD systems

• analysis of side-channel attacks and other loopholes

• certification of QKD devices

• quantum-cryptography primitives and protocols.

Quantum Hacking 

• implementation loopholes

• quantum computing threats to cryptography.

Quantum Channels and Quantum Networks 

• quantum hubs and quantum communication networks

• earth-satellite and satellite-satellite links

• multi-channel and multi-level encoding techniques

• photon orbital angular momentum

• spatial, temporal, and frequency encoding and multiplexing techniques.

Quantum Sensors and Clocks: Overcoming Classical Limits 

• quantum accelerometers, gravimeters, and gyroscopes

• quantum magnetometers

• advanced interferometric sensors using squeezed light

• quantum technologies for precise timing

• quantum imaging.

Quantum Simulators

• quantum simulators of complex systems

• applications in solid state physics and chemistry

• technologies for quantum simulators.

Algorithms and Quantum computation 

• quantum computation theory and implementations

• quantum algorithms

• quantum randomness extractors.

Contributing Technologies 

• cold atom technologies

• single-photon sources, detectors, and filters

• entanglement sources and detection

• space-qualified quantum sources and detectors

• random number generation

• probabilistic qubit amplifiers and their use in QKD

• quantum memories, gates, relays, and repeaters

• signals processing and computer architectures for quantum cryptographic systems

• integrated photonics for quantum circuits.

Related Fundamental Physics

• tests of quantum theory.