Portrait of Nicolas Heurtel

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.

UPDATED (6th of August 2026): This page will be updated during this month.

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

Talks

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@quandela.com