Contact: benoit.vermersch (at) lpmmc.cnrs.fr

I am an associate professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes, member of the LPMMC.

• Research interests

  • Implementations of quantum processing units with cold atoms, trapped ions, superconducting qubits,…
  • Measurement protocols for entanglement-related quantities, out-of-time ordered correlators, topological invariants.
  • Many-body entanglement theory
  • Quantum networks : Light-matter interfaces, quantum state transfer protocols, waveguide quantum electrodynamics.
  • Tensor-network numerical methods: Matrix-Product-States and DMRG,TEBD related algorithms

• Want to now more?

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  • ORCID

The team

News

-2023.08: Our article on Fermionic quantum processing with programmable neutral atom arrays has been published!
Link to the paper

-2023.08: Our article on Fermionic correlation functions from randomized measurements in programmable atomic quantum devices has been published!
Link to the paper

Selected presentations available for download

• Measuring scrambling and topological invariants via randomized measurements, Solvay workshop on quantum simulation, Brussels, 2019
• Probing quantum matter via randomized measurements, Seminars at Shanxi and Shanghai University (USTC), 2019.
• Quantum simulation and optimization with hot quantum networks, Seminars at Shanghai University (USTC), 2019.
• Probing mixed-state entanglement with randomized measurements, Talks at CoolMe/IQFA workshops, and LPT Toulouse, 2020-2021.
• Probing scrambling with randomized measurements, Youtube Link , Talk for the Geoflow Workshop (2021)
• Mixed-state entanglement with randomized measurements – Dynamical purification in synthetic quantum matter, Talks at Benasque – Entanglement in Strongly Correlated Systems, 2021, and Seminar at LPTMS (Orsay), March 2021.
• Importance sampling of randomized measurements to probe entanglement, Machine Learning for Quantum, July 2021.
• Probing entanglement in quantum technologies, CPTGA Day (broad audience talk), September 2021.
• Making randomized measurements a universal measurement toolbox, joint Innsbruck-Harvard seminar, November 2021.
• Intrication et ordinateurs quantiques, broad-audience seminar at ONERA, March 2022 (Youtube video in French)
• Probing the entanglement structure of many-body quantum states via partial-transpose moments, Seminar at ICFO April 2022//Quantum measurements theory conference, Bad Honnef, July 2022
• Understanding the role of entanglement in quantum computing Quantum Africa Conference, Kigali, September 2022 (online)
• Recent progress in the development of the randomized measurement toolbox Seminar at Tsinghua’s university, October 2022 (online)
• Probing entanglement using the randomized measurement toolbox, GDR Meso Day (broad audience talk), November 2022.
• Talk on randomized measurements of the quantum Fisher information, and on Common randomized measurements, Workshop Many-boy quantum information, Sankt Anton, May 2023.
• Robust universal quantum processors in spin systems via Walsh pulse sequences, Rydberg conference London, July 2023.

Teaching

• Quantum algorithms (Master’s degree university Grenoble Alpes):
  • Lecture 1: From classical computers to quantum computers
  • Exercices 1: Classical/Quantum gates
  • Lecture 2: Quantum algorithms(1)
  • Exercices 2: Grover’s diffuser
  • Lecture 3: Quantum algorithms(2)
  • Exercices 3: Quantum Fourier Transform
  • Lecture 4: Quantum error correction
  • Exercices 4: Quantum error correction
  • Lecture 5: Quantum simulation/optimization
  • Exercices 5: Jordan-wigner transformation/quantum adiabatic theorem

Short CV

• 2021 Habilitation diploma (HDR), University Grenoble-Alpes Manuscript
• 2019- Associate professor, University Grenoble-Alpes.
• 2017-2019 Senior scientist at the University of Innsbruck, group of Peter Zoller.
• 2013-2017 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Innsbruck, group of Peter Zoller.
• 2010-2013 PhD student under the supervision of Jean-Claude Garreau, University of Lille.
• 2006-2010 École Polytechnique.

Python scripts

• Numpy scripts to analyze randomized measurements performed on quantum devices: Github Link