Contact: benoit.vermersch (at) lpmmc.cnrs.fr
I am an associate professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes, member of the LPMMC.
I am currently on leave in the quantum startup Quobly
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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
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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.
- Probing entanglement using the randomized measurement toolbox, Heidelberg’s Structures cluster of excellence Jour Fixe (very broad audience talk), January 2024.
- Robust universal quantum processors in spin systems via Walsh pulse sequences, Rydberg Worshop at College de France, April 2024.
- Many-body entropies and entanglement from polynomially-many local measurements, ICTP Trieste conference on machine learning and quantum simulation, May 2024
- Randomized measurements for large-scale quantum experiments, Quantum technology workshop at university of Tenessee at Chattanooga, June 2025
- Randomized measurements for large-scale quantum experiments (long version), Seminar at MIT, June 2025
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
- Exam 2021 : Grover with multiple solutions/Shor Code
- Exam 2021 solution
- Exam 2022 : Quantum phase estimation
- Exam 2022 solution
- Exam 2023 : Simon’s algorithm
- Exam 2023 solution
- Exam 2024 : Block encoding
- Exam 2024 solution
- Introduction to quantum computing: MAWI school on ultracold quantum matter
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.
Codes
- The randomized measurement toolbox in Julia: Github Link
- Python scripts to analyze randomized measurements performed on quantum devices: Github Link