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most citedPerceval: A Software Platform for Discrete Variable Photonic Quantum Computing

71 citations · 250 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

quant-ph2026

Generation of Photonic Graph States with minimal number of quantum emitters

Konstantinos-Rafail Revis, Nils Tomke Ottink, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau +1

Graph states are a fundamental resource for measurement and fusion-based quantum computing, quantum networks, and sensing. Preparing them in a photonic system deterministically is,…

quant-ph2026

Parameter-Shift Rules for Gradients in Boson Sampling Experiments

Marius Trudeau, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Nicolás Quesada

Using a robust photon loss model for photonic quantum experiments, we derive th order parameter-shift rules for computing gradients of Fock boson sampling transition probabilit…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Quantum Energetic Advantage before Computational Advantage in Boson Sampling

Ariane Soret, Nessim Dridi, Stephen C. Wein +3

Understanding the energetic efficiency of quantum computers is essential for assessing their scalability and for determining whether quantum technologies can outperform classical c…

quant-ph2026

A unified framework for data-driven Bell inequalities

Carlos Ernesto Lopetegui-González, Gaël Massé, Enky Oudot +6

Although the original EPR paradox was formulated in terms of position and momentum, most studies of these phenomena have focused on measurement scenarios with only a discrete numbe…

quant-ph2025

Establishing Baselines for Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Insights from an Open, Collaborative Initiative

Cassandre Notton, Vassilis Apostolou, Agathe Senellart +28

The Perceval Challenge is an open, reproducible benchmark designed to assess the potential of photonic quantum computing for machine learning. Focusing on a reduced and hardware-fe…

quant-ph2025

Quantum remeshing and efficient encoding for fracture mechanics

Ulysse Remond, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Liam Lysaght +3

We present a variational quantum algorithm for structural mechanical problems, specifically addressing crack opening simulations that traditionally require extensive computational…

quant-ph2025

Shedding light on classical shadows: learning photonic quantum states

Hugo Thomas, Ulysse Chabaud, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

Learning quantum state properties is both a fundamental and practical problem in quantum information theory. Classical shadows have emerged as an efficient method for estimating pr…

quant-ph2024

Quantum circuit compression using qubit logic on qudits

Liam Lysaght, Timothée Goubault, Patrick Sinnott +2

We present qubit logic on qudits (QLOQ), a compression scheme in which the qubits from a hardware agnostic circuit are divided into groups of various sizes, and each group is mappe…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

On the role of coherence for quantum computational advantage

Hugo Thomas, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Rawad Mezher +3

Quantifying the resources available to a quantum computer appears to be necessary to separate quantum from classical computation. Among them, entanglement, nonstabilizerness and co…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

A Photonic Parameter-shift Rule: Enabling Gradient Computation for Photonic Quantum Computers

Axel Pappalardo, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Giovanni de Felice +5

We present a method for gradient computation in quantum algorithms implemented on linear optical quantum computing platforms. While parameter-shift rules have become a staple in qu…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Towards practical secure delegated quantum computing with semi-classical light

Boris Bourdoncle, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Paul Hilaire +3

Secure Delegated Quantum Computation (SDQC) protocols are a vital piece of the future quantum information processing global architecture since they allow end-users to perform their…

quant-ph2024

Connecting quantum circuit amplitudes and matrix permanents through polynomials

Hugo Thomas, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Rawad Mezher

In this paper, we strengthen the connection between qubit-based quantum circuits and photonic quantum computation. Within the framework of circuit-based quantum computation, the su…

quant-ph2023★ 23 cited

A Spin-Optical Quantum Computing Architecture

Grégoire de Gliniasty, Paul Hilaire, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau +3

We introduce an adaptable and modular hybrid architecture designed for fault-tolerant quantum computing. It combines quantum emitters and linear-optical entangling gates to leverag…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Corrected Bell and Noncontextuality Inequalities for Realistic Experiments

Kim Vallée, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Boris Bourdoncle +3

Contextuality is a feature of quantum correlations. It is crucial from a foundational perspective as a nonclassical phenomenon, and from an applied perspective as a resource for qu…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

A general-purpose single-photon-based quantum computing platform

Nicolas Maring, Andreas Fyrillas, Mathias Pont +24

Quantum computing aims at exploiting quantum phenomena to efficiently perform computations that are unfeasible even for the most powerful classical supercomputers. Among the promis…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Certified randomness in tight space

Andreas Fyrillas, Boris Bourdoncle, Alexandre Maïnos +13

Reliable randomness is a core ingredient in algorithms and applications ranging from numerical simulations to statistical sampling and cryptography. The outcomes of measurements on…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

High-fidelity generation of four-photon GHZ states on-chip

Mathias Pont, Giacomo Corrielli, Andreas Fyrillas +17

Mutually entangled multi-photon states are at the heart of all-optical quantum technologies. While impressive progresses have been reported in the generation of such quantum light…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Connecting XOR and XOR* games

Lorenzo Catani, Ricardo Faleiro, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau +2

In this work we focus on two classes of games: XOR nonlocal games and XOR* sequential games with monopartite resources. XOR games have been widely studied in the literature of nonl…

quant-ph2022

The Interplay between Quantum Contextuality and Wigner Negativity

Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

The use of quantum information in technology promises to supersede the so-called classical devices used nowadays. Understanding what features are inherently non-classical is crucia…

quant-ph2022★ 71 cited

Perceval: A Software Platform for Discrete Variable Photonic Quantum Computing

Nicolas Heurtel, Andreas Fyrillas, Grégoire de Gliniasty +13

We introduce Perceval, an open-source software platform for simulating and interfacing with discrete-variable photonic quantum computers, and describe its main features and compone…

quant-ph2021★ 38 cited

Contextuality and Wigner negativity are equivalent for continuous-variable quantum measurements

Robert I. Booth, Ulysse Chabaud, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

Quantum computers will provide considerable speedups with respect to their classical counterparts. However, the identification of the innately quantum features that enable these sp…

quant-ph2021★ 40 cited

Witnessing Wigner Negativity

Ulysse Chabaud, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Frédéric Grosshans

Negativity of the Wigner function is arguably one of the most striking non-classical features of quantum states. Beyond its fundamental relevance, it is also a necessary resource f…

quant-ph2020★ 22 cited

Quantum Advantage in Information Retrieval

Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Mark Howard, Shane Mansfield

Random access codes have provided many examples of quantum advantage in communication, but concern only one kind of information retrieval task. We introduce a related task - the To…

quant-ph2019★ 5 cited

Continuous-variable nonlocality and contextuality

Rui Soares Barbosa, Tom Douce, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau +2

Contextuality is a non-classical behaviour that can be exhibited by quantum systems. It is increasingly studied for its relationship to quantum-over-classical advantages in informa…