[2] A £120 million national network of four Quantum Technology Hubs was announced by Greg Clark in 2014.

[3] The NQIT Hub is led by a Director, Professor Ian Walmsley, who provides overall leadership and scientific vision, and two co-directors, Professor Dominic O’Brien, who leads the Systems Engineering, and Dr Tim Cook, who leads the Industrial User Engagement activities.

[2] Within the University of Oxford, NQIT works across the Departments of Physics, Engineering, Computer Science and Materials.

NQIT works with 30 industrial and government partners, including Aspen Electronics, the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Covesion Ltd, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Element Six, ETSI, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Google, Lockheed Martin, M Squared Lasers, the UK National Physical Laboratory, Oxford Capital, Oxford Instruments, Pure Lifi, Raytheon UK, Rohde & Schwarz, Satellite Applications Catapult and Toshiba.

Quantum interlinks between the traps will be realized by single photon emissions, which are combined and measured by optical fibres, splitters, switches and detectors.