Yes so in this sense I'm a bit of an unusual
physicist because
I don't really focus on something very
specific
I like quantum physics in general but
then within quantum physics I like to do
everything from foundations which means
non-locality, teleportation, Schrodinger's cat, like
studies all the way down to the
applications
building prototypes setting up
spin-off companies, trying in the end
to sell something the
most relevant company is actually showing
up here during this conference
name is ID Quantique and it's the world
leader
in quantum cryptography,
single-photon detector,
quantum random number generator and
yes we try to sell that to banks to
governments
and it's actually no longer
really a startup company because it's
almost 12 years old
and is doing pretty well for instance
for quantum
number generator the most surprising
but nice
market is actually internet gambling
for internet gambling you need
random numbers and it's important that
these numbers are indeed random
and to exploit quantum
physics to produce these random numbers
is a  good idea and
thats a market which is still growing I
mean we knew that it wouldn't happen
overnight, that the quantum revolution
so that's why from the beginning we
thought we should have not one product,
but three lines of products and we really
had three lines of products with all
what we call network encryption so
quantum cryptography but there's also a
classical cryptography because you need
that anyway for
to use the keys produced by quantum
physics
and for the single-photon detector, it's a
quite different market
and the quantum random number generator
which I mentioned before
and so from the beginning we wanted to
have this
three legs and yeah need three legs,
you are more stable
