Portrait of Nicolas Heurtel

About me

Welcome to my academic page !

I am currently a Research Associate at Quantum Software Lab (QSL) in the University of Edinburgh.

I did my PhD jointly between Université Paris-Saclay, supervised by Benoît Valiron and Pablo Arrighi in the Quantum Computation Structure (QuaCS) team, and Quandela, supervised by Shane Mansfield.

My interest lies in formalising and studying quantum systems using tools from computer science, sitting at the intersection of hardware, software, and theory. More specifically, my PhD focused on modelling linear optical circuits, both on the theory side with complete graphical languages and on the simulation/software side.

Research interests: Photonics, Graphical language, Architectures, Circuits, Simulation

Other interests: Outdated website, Unfinsihed personal projects, Outreach

Publications

Perceval: A Software Platform for Discrete Variable Photonic Quantum Computing

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

Journal articleQuantumFebruary 2023

MT180

Ma Thèse en 180s

A French presentation of my PhD in 3 minutes

MT180Gif-Sur-YvetteMarch 2023

Contact

Please send me an email for any question:

nicolas.heurtel@ed.ac.uk