News 2022

12-12-22 Yanic’s work on photon-number moments and cumulants of Gaussian states appears on the arXiv.
17-10-22 Our work with Jake, Stefano and Rachel on Threshold detection statistics of bosonic states appeared in Phys. Rev. A. Congrats everyone!
04-10-22 Nicolás was invited to comment in El Espectador on the wonderful news of John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect being awarded the Nobel prize in physics for work in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information.
27-09-22 Martin’s work on Waveguided sources of consistent, single-temporal-mode squeezed light: the good, the bad, and the ugly appears on the arXiv
19-09-22 Karthik joins as a postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome Karthik!
13-09-22 Yuan’s work on the recursive representation of Gaussian quantum mechanics appeared in the arXiv.
31-08-22 Nicolás gave a talk on Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor and Javier presented our work on Classical models are a better explanation of the Jiuzhang 1.0 Gaussian Boson Sampler than its targeted squeezed light model at CQIQC-IX.
2-08-22 Nicolás gave a talk at the ‘GBS’ day of the NSF Workshop on Quantum Advantage and Next Steps on Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor
21-07-22 Javier’s work showing that Classical models are a better explanation of the Jiuzhang 1.0 Gaussian Boson Sampler than its targeted squeezed light model is on the arXiv!
06-07-22 Beyond photon pairs appears in Advances in Optics and Photonics!
06-07-22 Salvador’s work on Custom nonlinearity profile for integrated quantum light sources is on the arXiv!
29-06-22 Nicolás and Polytechnique colleague Clara Santato become senior members of Optica.
22-06-22 Nicolás served as jury for the BIG quantum Hackathon organized by Quebec Quantique.
15-06-22 Nicolás gave a tutorial on Quantum Sampling from Continuous-Variable States of Light at Optica’s Quantum 2.0 Conference.
06-06-22 Nicolás gave the Q-Awareness seminar at the University of New Brunswick.
01-06-22 Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor appears on Nature. The article is being covered by media in English 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Italian 1, 2 and Spanish 1, 2.
26-05-22 Nicolás gave a talk at the Rencontre printanière 2022 de l’INTRIQ.
19-05-22 Stephan De Bièvre from U. de Lille visited Polytechnique today and told us about his work on “Optical nonclassicality, (de)coherence and entanglement for multi-mode optical states”.
09-05-22 Yanic Cardin joins as a summer intern funded by an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award! Congrats and Welcome Yanic!
09-05-22 Jiaqi Zhao joins as the first MSc student in the group. Great to have you as part of the crew Jiaqi!
06-05-22 Nicolás’ work on Efficient sampling from shallow Gaussian quantum-optical circuits with local interactions is an Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review A.
11-04-22 Our Discovery Grant will be funded by NSERC 🎉🎉🎉.
15-03-22 Jake Bulmer dropped by for an admitedly too short visit.
28-01-22 Nicolás is giving the Manuel Sandoval Vallarta seminar at the Instituto de Física, UNAM on Quantum Computational Advantage via Gaussian Boson Sampling.
11-01-22 our work in collaboration with Rachel, Bryn, Raúl, Juan Miguel, Trevor and Haoyu on speeding up the classical simulation of Gaussian Boson Sampling appeared in PRX Quantum.
06-01-22 Martin Houde joins as the first postdoc in the group. Welcome to Polyquantique Martin!
06-01-22 Our collaboration with Abhinav, Arthur, Trevor, Marcel, Marios, Lars, Jonathan, Haoyu, Jens, Dominik, Bill and Ish on Quantum computational advantage via high-dimensional Gaussian boson sampling appeared today in Science Advances!
15-12-21 Nicolás gave a talk on Quantum Computational Advantage via High-Dimensional Gaussian Boson Sampling for Chile’s Millennium Institute for Research in Optics, MIRO.
08-12-21 Mr Mustard, a library that we helped develop in collaboration with Xanadu, is out. See this Jupyter notebook where we use it to find a heralding circuit for making a mesoscopic cat state.
22-10-21 Our work with Xanadu on Fast Simulation of Bosonic Qubits via Gaussian Functions in Phase Space is published in PRX Quantum.
13-10-21 Our work in collaboration with Daniel Grier, Daniel Brod, Marcos Alonso and Juan Miguel Arrazola on The Classical Complexity of Bipartite Gaussian Boson Sampling appears on the arXiv.
08-10-21 Our work in collaboration with the evangelists, Luke, Matteo, Marco and John, on life Beyond photon pairs appears on the arXiv.
04-10-21 Nous sommes a Montréal.