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Key Dates TQC 2025

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Note: Talk submissions that are not retained will automatically be considered for the poster session.

Topics

The Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC) is a leading annual international conference for students and researchers working in the theoretical aspects of quantum information science. The scientific objective of TQC is to bring together the theoretical quantum information science community to present and discuss the latest advances in the field.

Areas of interest for TQC include, but are not restricted to:

• quantum algorithms
• models of quantum computation
• quantum complexity theory
• simulation of quantum systems
• quantum cryptography
• quantum communication
• quantum information theory
• quantum estimation and measurement
• quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing
• intersection of quantum information and condensed-matter theory
• intersection of quantum information and machine learning

Submission Guidelines

As the goal of TQC is to bring together researchers on all aspects of quantum information, submissions are solicited for two tracks.

With Proceedings Track

Submissions to this track must be original manuscripts that have not previously appeared in published form and are not simultaneously submitted to another publishing venue. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and will be published in the conference proceedings.

Without Proceedings Track (Talk Only)

Accepted submissions will be presented orally at the conference but will not appear in the proceedings. This track allows authors to publish their work elsewhere and accepts already published material. Previously published submissions must still be current to be competitive for acceptance.

It is possible to present a poster if a submission is not accepted for a talk in either track, and poster-only submissions are also possible.

In recent years, the overall acceptance rate for all papers submitted to TQC has been approximately 25%. The Program Committee will target a minimum of 10 articles to be published in the proceedings; therefore, the acceptance rates could differ between the two tracks.

Best Paper Prize

The Best Paper prize will be awarded to the best paper accepted to the conference (both tracks combined). The Program Committee may decide to split the prize between multiple papers or to decline to make an award.

Best Student Paper Prize

The Best Student Paper prize will be awarded to the best student paper accepted at the conference (both tracks combined). The Program Committee may decide to split the prize between multiple papers or to decline to make an award.

A submission is eligible for the Best Student Paper prize if and only if the main author(s) is/are a student(s) at the time of submission and will present the work at TQC. Additionally, a significant portion of the work (at least 60%) must have been done by the student(s), including contributing the majority of the key ideas. Eligibility can only be indicated at the time of submission. The Program Committee Chair may request clarifications regarding the students’ contributions at any time. If a paper qualifies for both the Best Student Paper prize and the Best Paper prize, it should be considered for both; a paper meriting both prizes should receive both.

Submission Format (applies to both With and Without Proceedings tracks)

All submissions should include both an extended abstract and a technical version, submitted as two separate PDF files.

Extended Abstract

• At most 3 pages (excluding references), containing a non-technical, clear, and insightful description of the main ideas, results, their impact, and relationship with concurrent and prior work.
• This extended abstract will be used to evaluate the originality and importance of the results.
• The submission should begin with a title and a list of authors.
• The text must be in a single-column format, use at least 11-point fonts, and have reasonable margins.
• If the work is currently under submission to, has been accepted at, or has been presented at any other conference(s) or workshop(s) (without proceedings), this should be indicated on the first page of the submission.

Technical Manuscript

• No page limit. Authors are encouraged to use the “full version” of their paper.
• The submission should begin with a title, a list of authors, and a short abstract.
• This manuscript will be used to verify the correctness of the submission if necessary.
• Even if the manuscript is available in an online repository, a PDF copy must be uploaded. If the submission consists of multiple papers, they should be merged into a single file.
• See the Proceedings section below for further instructions that apply to the With Proceedings track.

The Program Committee reserves the right to decide how to treat submissions that deviate from the above format, including rejection of submissions solely on the basis of their format.

Proceedings

Accepted manuscripts in the With Proceedings track will be published in late 2025 in the TQC 2025 proceedings, as part of the well-known open-access LIPIcs–Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. Only the first 15 pages of the technical version of the manuscript will be published, due to LIPIcs-Leibniz formatting requirements (references are not included in this page limit). If available, a link to a longer version of the paper in an on-line repository can be included as a footnote or a reference within these 15 pages. While technical manuscripts need not use the LIPIcs-Leibniz template for the submission, the Program Committee will make their decisions based on the first 15 pages of the technical manuscript and authors are strongly encouraged to make these first 15 pages self-contained.

Final version

If your manuscript is accepted for publication in the proceedings, you will receive instructions on how to prepare the final revised version together with the notification.

Poster submissions

Talk submissions that are not retained will automatically be considered for the poster session (in both tracks). In addition, you can submit your work for a poster-only presentation.

Poster-only submissions must either consist of a short summary (2 pages) of the work, or follow the guidelines from either of the tracks above.

Important note: talk submission to multiple conferences

As a research community, our goal is that contributed talks at quantum information conferences reflect the breadth of our field. We therefore discourage the parallel submission of works that were previously accepted or presented as talks at a conference with a similar scope, such as QIP.

On the first page of your submission, indicate if your work is currently under submission to, has been accepted at, or has been presented at any other conference or workshop, as a talk. If that is the case, quickly discuss the reason for the multiple submissions as well as significant differences relative to these submissions or venues. The assessment of this information is at the Program Committee’s discretion.

Program Committee

The program committee list can be found here.

Please direct any questions or comments to the PC chairs via email to pcchairs2025@tqc-conference.org .