Nicolás Quesada

MEI Chair in Quantum Photonics, Assistant Professor
Department of
Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal

nicolas.quesada(at)polymtl(dot)ca

Areas of expertise / interest:

•High-purity sources of non-classical light

•Near-term applications of quantum computers and quantum software/compiling

•Quantum sensing and quantum metrology

•Classical simulation of complex quantum systems


Short bio: Completed his PhD in Toronto in 2015. Was a postdoc at Sherbrooke, Macquarie and Perimeter. Worked at Xanadu developing Strawberry Fields and The Walrus and leading theory effort to show photonic quantum computational advantage. Currently Assistant Prof. at Polytechnique Montreal.

More information here. Follow on Twitter: @polyquantique

Selected project-relevant publications:

Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor, Nature 606, 75-81 (2022)

Understanding high-gain twin-beam sources using cascaded stimulated emission, Phys. Rev. X 10, 031063 (2020)


Publications as part of MIRAQLS: