Chinni, K., & Quesada, N. (2024, May). Beyond the parametric approximation: pump depletion, entanglement and squeezing in down-conversion [Paper]. Science and Innovations 2024, Charlotte, NC, USA.
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- 2024 (13)
Conference paper Journal article Chinni, K., & Quesada, N. (2024). Beyond the parametric approximation: Pump depletion, entanglement, and squeezing in macroscopic down-conversion. Physical Review A, 110(1), 01312 (21 pages).Journal article Poveda-Hospital, S., Quesada, N., & Peter, Y.-A. (2024). Etching Properties of PIN-PMN-PT and its Integration in Electro-Optic Phase Modulators. Optical Materials Express, 15(3), 522-530.
Journal article Thekkadath, G., Houde, M., England, D., Bustard, P. J., Bouchard, F., Quesada, N., & Sussman, B. (2024). Gain-Induced Group Delay in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion. Physical Review Letters, 133(20), 7 pages.Journal article Martínez-Cifuentes, J., Guise, H. , & Quesada, N. (2024). Linear cross-entropy certification of quantum computational advantage in Gaussian Boson sampling. PRX Quantum, 5(4), 040312 (44 pages).Dataset Martínez-Cifuentes, J., de Guise, H., & Quesada, N. (2024). Linear cross-entropy certification of quantum computational advantage in Gaussian Boson Sampling [Dataset].Journal article Houde, M., McCutcheon, W., & Quesada, N. (2024). Matrix decompositions in quantum optics: Takagi/Autonne, Bloch-Messiah/Euler, Iwasawa, and Williamson. Canadian Journal of Physics, 102(10), 497-507.Journal article Houde, M., & Quesada, N. (2024). Perfect pulsed inline twin-beam squeezers. Avs Quantum Science, 6(2), 021402.Conference paper Houde, M., & Quesada, N. (2024, May). Perfect pulsed inline twin-beam squeezers [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Applications and Technologies (CLEO_AT 2024), Charlotte, North Carolina United States.Journal article Cardin, Y., & Quesada, N. (2024). Photon-number moments and cumulants of Gaussian states. Quantum, 8, 19 pages.Conference paper Poveda-Hospital, S., Quesada, N., & Peter, Y.-A. (2024, July). PIN-PMN-PT electro-optic phase modulator [Paper]. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN 2024), San Sebastian, Spain (2 pages).Journal article Oh, C., Fefferman, B., Jiang, L., & Quesada, N. (2024). Quantum-inspired classical algorithm for graph problems by Gaussian Boson sampling. PRX quantum, 5(2), 020341 (15 pages).Journal article Yao, Y., Miatto, F., & Quesada, N. (2024). Riemannian optimization of photonic quantum cricuits in phase and Fock space. SciPost, 17(3), 082 (44 pages).
- 2023 (4)
Journal article Martínez-Cifuentes, J., Romero, K. M. F., & Quesada, N. (2023). Classical models may be a better explanation of the Jiuzhang 1.0 Gaussian Boson Sampler than its targeted squeezed light model. Quantum, 7, 1076 (20 pages).Journal article Poveda-Hospital, S., Peter, Y.-A., & Quesada, N. (2023). Custom nonlinearity profile for integrated quantum light sources. Physical Review Applied, 19(5), 054033 (9 pages).Journal article Houde, M., & Quesada, N. (2023). Waveguided sources of consistent, single-temporal-mode squeezed light: The good, the bad, and the ugly. AVS Quantum Science, 5(1), 15 pages.Conference paper Houde, M., & Quesada, N. (2023, May). Waveguided sources of consistent, single-temporal-mode squeezed light: the good, the bad, and the ugly [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2023), San Jose, CA, USA.
- 2022 (7)
Journal article Quesada, N., Helt, L. G., Menotti, M., Liscidini, M., & Sipe, J. E. (2022). Beyond photon pairs: Nonlinear quantum photonics in the high-gain regime: a tutorial. Advances in Optics and Photonics, 14(3), 291-403.Dataset Martínez-Cifuentes, J., Fonseca-Romero, K. M., & Quesada, N. (2022). Classical models are a better explanation of the Jiuzhang 1.0 Gaussian Boson Sampler than its targeted squeezed light model [Dataset].Journal article Quesada, N., Chadwick, R. S., Bell, B. A., Arrazola, J. M., Vincent, T., Qi, H., & Garcia-Patron, R. (2022). Quadratic Speed-Up for Simulating Gaussian Boson Sampling. PRX Quantum, 3(1), 010306 (8 pages).Journal article Deshpande, A., Mehta, A., Vincent, T., Quesada, N., Hinsche, M., Ioannou, M., Madsen, L., Lavoie, J., Qi, H., Eisert, J., Hangleiter, D., Fefferman, B., & Dhand, I. (2022). Quantum computational advantage via high-dimensional Gaussian boson sampling. Science Advances, 8(1), 15 pages.Journal article Houde, M., & Quesada, N. (2022). Squeezed states of waveguided sources with varying brightnesses are partially distinguishable. Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition, 119, QTu2A.28-QTu2A.28.Journal article Grier, D., Brod, D. J., Arrazola, J. M., de Andrade Alonso, M. B., & Quesada, N. (2022). The Complexity of Bipartite Gaussian Boson Sampling. Quantum, 6, 44 pages.Journal article Bulmer, J. F. F., Paesani, S., Chadwick, R. S., & Quesada, N. (2022). Threshold detection statistics of bosonic states. Physical Review A, 106(4), 043712 (14 pages).
- 2021 (4)
Conference paper Cifuentes, D., Qi, H., Bradler, K., Israel, R., Kalajdzievski, T., & Quesada, N. (2021, March). Computation of banded hafnians and applications in optical quantum computing [Paper]. Spring Eastern Virtual Sectional Meeting.Journal article Kalajdzievski, T., & Quesada, N. (2021). Exact and approximate continuous-variable gate decompositions. Quantum, 5, 394-394.Journal article Arrazola, J. M., Bergholm, V., Brádler, K., Bromley, T. R., Collins, M. J., Dhand, I., Fumagalli, A., Gerrits, T., Goussev, A., Helt, L. G., Hundal, J., Isacsson, T., Israel, R. B., Izaac, J., Jahangiri, S., Janik, R., Killoran, N., Kumar, S. P., Lavoie, J., ... Zhang, Y. (2021). Quantum circuits with many photons on a programmable nanophotonic chip. Nature, 591(7848), 54-60.Conference paper Banic, M., Liscidini, M., Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. (2021, May). Spontaneous and Stimulated Three Photon Generation [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO_QELS 2021), San Jose, California.
- 2020 (15)
Patent Killoran, N., Bromley, T. R., Arrazola, J. M., Schuld, M., & Quesada, N. (2020). Apparatus and methods for quantum computing and machine learning. (Patent Application no. US20200401920).Journal article Bromley, T. R., Arrazola, J. M., Jahangiri, S., Izaac, J., Quesada, N., Gran, A. D., Schuld, M., Swinarton, J., Zabaneh, Z., & Killoran, N. (2020). Applications of near-term photonic quantum computers: software and algorithms. Quantum Science and Technology, 5(3), 034010.Journal article Vaidya, V. D., Morrison, B., Helt, L. G., Shahrokshahi, R., Mahler, D. H., Collins, M. J., Tan, K., Lavoie, J., Repingon, A., Menotti, M., Quesada, N., Pooser, R. C., Lita, A. E., Gerrits, T., Nam, S. W., & Vernon, Z. (2020). Broadband quadrature-squeezed vacuum and nonclassical photon number correlations from a nanophotonic device. Science Advances, 6(39), eaba9186.Journal article Gupt, B., Arrazola, J. M., Quesada, N., & Bromley, T. R. (2020). Classical benchmarking of Gaussian Boson Sampling on the Titan supercomputer. Quantum Information Processing, 19(8), 249-249.Journal article Helt, L. G., & Quesada, N. (2020). Degenerate squeezing in waveguides: a unified theoretical approach. Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2(3), 035001.Journal article Quesada, N., & Arrazola, J. M. (2020). Exact simulation of Gaussian boson sampling in polynomial space and exponential time. Physical Review Research, 2(2), 023005.Journal article Miatto, F. M., & Quesada, N. (2020). Fast optimization of parametrized quantum optical circuits. Quantum, 4, 366-366.Conference paper Vidrighin, M. D., Triginer, G., Quesada, N., Eckstein, A., Moore, M., Kolthammer, W. S., Sipe, J. E., & Walmsley, I. A. (2020, May). High-Gain Twin-Beam Generation in Waveguides: Experimental Characterization Using Cascaded Stimulated Emission [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Washington, D.C..Patent Vernon, Z., Kang, T. A. N., Morrison, B., Shahrokhshahi, R., Mahler, D., Menotti, M., & Quesada, N. (2020). Integrated devices for squeezed light generation. (Patent no. US10649307).Journal article Jahangiri, S., Arrazola, J. M., Quesada, N., & Killoran, N. (2020). Point processes with Gaussian boson sampling. Physical Review E, 101(2), 022134.Journal article Jahangiri, S., Arrazola, J. M., Quesada, N., & Delgado, A. (2020). Quantum algorithm for simulating molecular vibrational excitations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(44), 25528-25537.Journal article Qi, H., Brod, D. J., Quesada, N., & García-Patrón, R. (2020). Regimes of Classical Simulability for Noisy Gaussian Boson Sampling. Physical Review Letters, 124(10), 100502.Journal article Quesada, N., Triginer, G., Vidrighin, M. D., & Sipe, J. E. (2020). Theory of high-gain twin-beam generation in waveguides: From Maxwell's equations to efficient simulation. Physical Review A, 102(3), 033519.Journal article Banchi, L., Quesada, N., & Arrazola, J. M. (2020). Training Gaussian boson sampling distributions. Physical Review A, 102(1), 012417.Journal article Triginer, G., Vidrighin, M. D., Quesada, N., Eckstein, A., Moore, M., Kolthammer, W. S., Sipe, J. E., & Walmsley, I. A. (2020). Understanding High-Gain Twin-Beam Sources Using Cascaded Stimulated Emission. Physical Review X, 10(3), 031063.
- 2019 (10)
Journal article Björklund, A., Gupt, B., & Quesada, N. (2019). A Faster Hafnian Formula for Complex Matrices and Its Benchmarking on a Supercomputer. ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 24, 1-17.Conference paper Shahrokhshahi, R., Morrison, B., Collins, M. J., Helt, L. G., Quesada, N., Mahler, D. H., Tan, K., Vaidya, V. D., Repingon, A., Lavoie, J., Menotti, M., Pooser, R. C., Lita, A., Nam, S. W., Gerrits, T., & Vernon, Z. (2019, May). Beyond photon pairs: Nanophotonic photon number difference squeezing [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, California.Journal article Quesada, N., & Brańczyk, A. M. (2019). Broadband pseudothermal states with tunable spectral coherence generated via nonlinear optics. Physical Review A, 99(1), 013830.Journal article Killoran, N., Bromley, T. R., Arrazola, J. M., Schuld, M., Quesada, N., & Lloyd, S. (2019). Continuous-variable quantum neural networks. Physical Review Research, 1(3), 033063.Journal article Quesada, N. (2019). Franck-Condon factors by counting perfect matchings of graphs with loops. Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(16), 164113.Journal article Quesada, N., Adjei, E., El-Ganainy, R., & Brańczyk, A. M. (2019). Non-Hermitian engineering for brighter broadband pseudothermal light. Physical Review A, 100(4), 043805.Journal article Vernon, Z., Quesada, N., Liscidini, M., Morrison, B., Menotti, M., Tan, K., & Sipe, J. E. (2019). Scalable Squeezed-Light Source for Continuous-Variable Quantum Sampling. Physical Review Applied, 12(6), 064024.Journal article Quesada, N., Helt, L. G., Izaac, J., Arrazola, J. M., Shahrokhshahi, R., Myers, C. R., & Sabapathy, K. K. (2019). Simulating realistic non-Gaussian state preparation. Physical Review A, 100(2), 022341.Journal article Killoran, N., Izaac, J., Quesada, N., Bergholm, V., Amy, M., & Weedbrook, C. (2019). Strawberry Fields: A Software Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing. Quantum, 3, 129-129.Journal article Gupt, B., Izaac, J., & Quesada, N. (2019). The Walrus: a library for the calculation of hafnians, Hermite polynomials and Gaussian boson sampling. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(44).
- 2018 (2)
Journal article Quesada, N., Arrazola, J. M., & Killoran, N. (2018). Gaussian boson sampling using threshold detectors. Physical Review A, 98(6), 062322.Journal article Quesada, N., & Brańczyk, A. M. (2018). Gaussian functions are optimal for waveguided nonlinear-quantum-optical processes. Physical Review A, 98(4), 043813.
- 2017 (2)
Conference paper Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. The effects of self- and cross-phase modulation in the generation of bright twin beams using SPDC [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2017), San Jose, Calif..Journal article Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. (2017). Why you should not use the electric field to quantize in nonlinear optics. Optics Letters, 42(17), 3443-3446.
- 2016 (4)
Journal article Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. (2016). High efficiency in mode-selective frequency conversion. Optics Letters, 41(2), 364-367.Conference paper Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. (2016, March). High efficiency in Mode Selective Frequency Conversion for Optical Quantum Information Processing [Paper]. APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, Maryland.Journal article Sahota, J., Quesada, N., & James, D. F. V. (2016). Physical resources for optical phase estimation. Physical Review A, 94(3), 033817.Conference paper Sahota, J., Quesada, N., & James, D. F. V. (2016, October). Quantum resources for optical phase estimation [Paper]. Frontiers in Optics 2016, Rochester, New York.
- 2015 (4)
Conference paper Quesada, N., & Sahota, J. (2015, May). Particle vs. mode entanglement in optical quantum metrology [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2015), San Jose, California, USA.Journal article Sahota, J., & Quesada, N. (2015). Quantum correlations in optical metrology: Heisenberg-limited phase estimation without mode entanglement. Physical Review A, 91(1), 013808.Journal article Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. (2015). Time-Ordering Effects in the Generation of Entangled Photons Using Nonlinear Optical Processes. Physical Review Letters, 114(9), 093903.Thesis Quesada, N. (2015). Very Nonlinear Quantum Optics [Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto].
- 2014 (1)
Journal article Quesada, N., & Sipe, J. E. (2014). Effects of time ordering in quantum nonlinear optics. Physical Review A, 90(6), 063840.
- 2013 (5)
Journal article Quesada, N., & Sanpera, A. (2013). Bound entanglement in the Jaynes–Cummings model. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 46(22), 224002.Conference paper Quesada, N., Brańczyk, A. M., & James, D. F. V. (2013, October). Holistic Quantum State and Process Tomography [Paper]. Frontiers in Optics 2013, Orlando, Florida.Conference paper Quesada, N. (2013, June). Quantum correlations in a mixed full rank qubit-qudit system: Discord and entanglement in the Jaynes-Cummings model [Paper]. Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting, Rochester, New York.Journal article Quesada, N., Brańczyk, A. M., & James, D. F. V. (2013). Self-calibrating tomography for multidimensional systems. Physical Review A, 87(6), 062118.Conference paper Quesada, N., Brańczyk, A. M., & James, D. F. V. (2013, June). Self-calibrating tomography for non-unitary processes [Paper]. Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting, Rochester, New York.
- 2012 (3)
Journal article Quesada, N., Al-Qasimi, A., & James, D. F. V. (2012). Quantum properties and dynamics of X states. Journal of Modern Optics, 59(15), 1322-1329.Book chapter Moyanno, G. E., & Quesada, N. (2012). Simulación de nanomateriales mediante métodos tipo monte carlo. In Escobar, L. D. L. (ed.), Formación y modelación en ciencias básicas .Journal article Quesada, N. (2012). Strong coupling of two quantum emitters to a single light mode: The dissipative Tavis-Cummings ladder. Physical Review A, 86(1), 013836.
- 2011 (4)
Conference paper Quesada, N., & James, D. F. V. (2011, October). An equation of motion for the concurrence of 2 qubit pure states [Paper]. Frontiers in Optics 2011/Laser Science XXVII, San Jose, California.Journal article Quesada, N., Vinck-Posada, H., & Rodríguez, B. A. (2011). Density operator of a system pumped with polaritons: a Jaynes-Cummings-like approach. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(2), 025301.Book Quesada, N., & Moyano, G. E. (2011). Programas para la simulación numérica de nanoagregados. Cálculo de propiedades termodinámicas en plataforma distribuidas.Conference paper Quesada, N., Cárdenas, P. C., Vinck-Posada, H., & Rodríguez, B. A. (2011, October). Strong coupling criterion for two interacting excitons in a nanocavity [Paper]. Frontiers in Optics 2011/Laser Science XXVII, San Jose, California.
- 2010 (1)
Journal article Quesada, N., & Moyano, G. E. (2010). Melting of Lennard-Jones rare-gas clusters doped with a single impurity atom. Physical Review B, 82(5).
- 2009 (1)
Journal article Vera, C. A., Quesada, N., Vinck-Posada, H., & Rodríguez, B. A. (2009). Characterization of dynamical regimes and entanglement sudden death in a microcavity quantum dot system. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 21(39), 395603.
