Winners

1. Principle of information causality rationalizes quantum composition, Ram Krishna Patra, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo, Samrat Sen, Govind Lal Sidhardh, Mir Alimuddin and Manik Banik
2. Scalable generation and detection of on-demand W-state in nanophotonic circuits, Govind Krishna, Jun Gao, Leonardo Santos, Zesheng Xu, Adrian Iovan, Stephan Steinhauer, Otfried Gühne, Philip J Poole, Dan Dalacu, Val Zwiller and Ali W Elshaari
3. Round-the-clock QKD over an atmospheric channel with passive polarization correction, Saumya R. Behera, Melvee George and Urbasi Sinha

Honorable Mentions

1. Global optimization in variational quantum algorithms via dynamic tunneling method, Seung Park, Kyunghyun Baek, Seungjin Lee and Mahn-Soo Choi
2. Locally unidentifiable subset of quantum states and its resourcefulness in secret password distribution, Pratik Ghosal, Arkaprabha Ghosal, Subhendu B. Ghosh and Amit Mukherjee
3. Local unitary equivalence of absolutely maximally entangled states, N Ramadas, Suhail Ahmad Rather, Vijay Kodiyalam and Arul Lakshminarayan
4. Non-Gaussian Optical State Engineering: Applications and Benchmarking, Priyanka Giri, Beate Asenbeck, Lukas Lachman, Ambroise Boyer, Tom Darras, Albane Lapras, Alban Urvoy, Radim Filip and Julien Laurat
5. Linear optics and the problem of Bell-like state discrimination, Jatin Ghai and Sibasish Ghosh
6. Generalizing fidelity and Renyi divergences based on the Riemannian geometry of the Bures manifold, Afham and Chris Ferrie