Quantum Ready Campus

In our Quantum Lab students move from circuit simulators to real quantum hardware, while the campus moves its own security to quantum-safe encryption.

Illustration of a superconducting quantum computer with gold cooling stages

How students run a quantum circuit

Step 1
Build
Design a circuit in the drag-and-drop composer or in Python with Qiskit.
Step 2
Simulate
Run it instantly in the browser, or on the lab server for larger circuits.
Step 3
Run on hardware
Send it to a real quantum computer through IBM Quantum, within your quota.
Step 4
Explain
The AI quantum explainer walks through what the circuit did and why.

Bloch sphere showing a qubit state as an arrow

Why quantum-safe security matters now

2024
New encryption standards
NIST publishes ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA (FIPS 203, 204 and 205).
Now
HKBK moves early
Student and research records move to quantum-safe protection.
2030
Old algorithms deprecated
RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography deprecated, per NIST's draft transition plan (IR 8547).
2035
Old algorithms disallowed
Quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms disallowed, per the same draft plan.

Learning tracks

Foundations. Qubits, superposition, entanglement, gates and measurement.
Algorithms. Grover's search, the quantum Fourier transform, and variational algorithms such as VQE and QAOA.
Quantum-safe cryptography. Why quantum computers threaten today's encryption, and how the new NIST standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA) replace it.
Research projects. Final-year and doctoral projects that use quantum computing in chemistry, optimisation or machine learning.

A quantum-safe campus

Quantum computers powerful enough to break today's public-key encryption do not exist yet. But attackers can store encrypted data now and decrypt it later. Student records and research data stay valuable for decades, so HKBK is moving them to quantum-safe protection early:

Website traffic uses hybrid post-quantum key exchange where browsers support it.
Sensitive records are encrypted with keys protected by post-quantum algorithms.
Digital certificates and transcripts will carry post-quantum signatures that anyone can verify.
All cryptography is tracked in one inventory, so algorithms can be upgraded quickly as standards evolve.

Learning tracks

Foundations. Qubits, superposition, entanglement, gates and measurement.

Algorithms. Grover's search, the quantum Fourier transform, and variational algorithms such as VQE and QAOA.

Quantum-safe cryptography. Why quantum computers threaten today's encryption, and how the new NIST standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA) replace it.

Research projects. Final-year and doctoral projects that use quantum computing in chemistry, optimisation or machine learning.

A quantum-safe campus

Website traffic uses hybrid post-quantum key exchange where browsers support it.

Sensitive records are encrypted with keys protected by post-quantum algorithms.

Digital certificates and transcripts will carry post-quantum signatures that anyone can verify.

All cryptography is tracked in one inventory, so algorithms can be upgraded quickly as standards evolve.