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Resource-efficient crosstalk mitigation for the high-fidelity operation of photonic integrated circuits with induced phase shifters
Andreas Fyrillas, Nicolas Heurtel, Simone Piacentini +3
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are key platforms for the compact and stable manipulation of classical and quantum light. Imperfections arising from fabrication constraints, to…
Fast and memory efficient strong simulation of noisy adaptive linear optical circuits
Timothée Goubault de Brugière, Nicolas Heurtel
Exactly computing the full output distribution of linear optical circuits remains a challenge, as existing methods are either time-efficient but memory-intensive or memory-efficien…
A Complete Graphical Language for Linear Optical Circuits with Finite-Photon-Number Sources and Detectors
Nicolas Heurtel
Linear optical circuits can be used to manipulate the quantum states of photons as they pass through components including beam splitters and phase shifters. Those photonic states p…
A Complete Equational Theory for Quantum Circuits
Alexandre Clément, Nicolas Heurtel, Shane Mansfield +2
We introduce the first complete equational theory for quantum circuits. More precisely, we introduce a set of circuit equations that we prove to be sound and complete: two circuits…
Strong Simulation of Linear Optical Processes
Nicolas Heurtel, Shane Mansfield, Jean Senellart +1
In this paper, we provide an algorithm and general framework for the simulation of photons passing through linear optical interferometers. Given photons at the input of an -…
LOv-Calculus: A Graphical Language for Linear Optical Quantum Circuits
Alexandre Clément, Nicolas Heurtel, Shane Mansfield +2
We introduce the LOv-calculus, a graphical language for reasoning about linear optical quantum circuits with so-called vacuum state auxiliary inputs. We present the axiomatics of t…
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…