Nicolas Heurtel

PhD Student

About me

Welcome to my academic page !

I am currently a 2nd year PhD student, supervised by Benoît Valiron and Pablo Arrighi in the Quantum Computation Structure (QuaCS) team in Saclay, and by Shane Mansfield in Quandela.

My PhD tries to tackle both the computational power (what?) and the computational (how?) of linear optical quantum computing. In other words, given photons and linear optical components, I would like to describe the best way to use them in order to run quantum algorithms.

I also have a project ongoing, which will hopefully be on this page soon ! (Edit: yes, I’m late. Update “soon”.)

Interests

Quantum Computing
Graphical Language
Linear Optics

Education

PhD, 2022 - (2025?)

Université Paris-Saclay & Quandela
MSc in Computer Science, 2021

CentraleSupélec
MSc in Engineering, 2017-2021

CentraleSupélec

Publications

Nicolas Heurtel (2024). A Complete Graphical Language for Linear Optical Circuits with Finite-Photon-Number Sources and Detectors.

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Nicolas Heurtel, Shane Mansfield, Benoît Valiron, Jean Senellart (2023). Strong Simulation of Linear Optical Processes. Computer Physics Communications.

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Alexandre Clément, Nicolas Heurtel, Shane Mansfield, Simon Perdrix, Benoît Valiron (2023). A Complete Equational Theory for Quantum Circuits. In LICS (2023).

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Nicolas Heurtel, Andreas Fyrillas, Grégoire de Gliniasty, Raphaël Le Bihan, Sébastien Malherbe, Marceau Pailhas, Eric Bertasi, Boris Bourdoncle, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Rawad Mezher, Luka Music, Nadia Belabas, Benoît Valiron, Pascale Senellart, Shane Mansfield, Jean Senellart (2023). Perceval: A Software Platform for Discrete Variable Photonic Quantum Computing. Quantum.

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Alexandre Clément, Nicolas Heurtel, Shane Mansfield, Simon Perdrix, Benoît Valiron (2022). LOv-Calculus: A Graphical Language for Linear Optical Quantum Circuits. In MFCS (2022).

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