Gabriel Ethier-Majcher
B.Eng. (Poly), Ph.D. (Poly)
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Areas of expertise
Electronic circuits and devices Electronic materials and components Surfaces, interfaces and thin films Optical properties Low temperature physics Mesoscopic physics
Electronic circuits and devices Electronic materials and components Surfaces, interfaces and thin films Optical properties Low temperature physics Mesoscopic physics
Primary sphere of excellence in research
New Frontiers in Information and Communication Technologies
New Frontiers in Information and Communication Technologies
Secondary sphere(s) of excellence in research
Innovative Materials Industry of the Future and Digital Society
Innovative Materials Industry of the Future and Digital Society
Student research project(s)
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Quantum technologies
- Quantum computing
- Superconducting qubits
- Superconducting devices
- Parametric amplifiers
- Optical to microwave transduction
Affiliation(s)
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 2506 Electronic circuits and devices
- 2515 Electronic materials and components
- 3303 Surfaces, interfaces and thin films
- 3306 Optical properties
- 3309 Low temperature physics
- 3312 Mesoscopic physics
Publications
Recent publications
Patent
Patent
Journal article
Patent
Éthier-Majcher, G., Ouellet-Plamondon, C., & Najafi-Yazdi, A. (2022). Methods and circuits for performing two-qubit quantum gates. (Patent no. US12067460). 
Archambault, C., & Éthier-Majcher, G. (2022). Topologically protected quantum circuit with superconducting qubits. (Patent no. US11695418).
Gangloff, D. A., Zaporski, L., Bodey, J. H., Bachorz, C., Jackson, D. M., Éthier-Majcher, G., Lang, C., Clarke, E., Hugues, M., Le Gall, C., & Atatüre, M. (2021). Witnessing quantum correlations in a nuclear ensemble via an electron spin qubit. Nature Physics, 17(11), 1247-1253.
Najafi-Yazdi, A., & Éthier-Majcher, G. (2020). Microwave device and method of operation. (Patent no. US10958274).
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Biography
Gabriel Éthier-Majcher is an assistant porfessor in the electrical engineering department at Polytechnique Montréal. He received a B.Eng and Ph.D. degree in Engineering Physics from Polytechnique Montréal (2009 and 2016). From 2016 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral fellow De 2016 à 2018, il a été chercheur postdoctoral fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Before joining the electrical engineering department, he was the quantum hardware team leader at Anyon Systems, a quantum computing company based in the Greater Montreal.
Education
- Ph.D., engineering physics Polytechnique Montreal
- B.Eng., engineering physics Polytechnique Montreal
