Upcoming Talks

Traditional approaches to quantum optics are rooted in the reciprocal, frequency-momentum space. In this talk, I will discuss recent advances toward sub-cycle quantum optics, where, instead, quantum fields are accessed in a localized region of space-time [1-2]. Both regimes will be compared side-by-side to contrast the advantages of each approach, with a particular emphasis on quantum sensing proposals [3-5] in the mid-infrared frequency range. In the concluding part of the talk, I will summarize recent advances in producing few-cycle bright one- and two-mode squeezed vacuum states in a single few-cycle spatio-temporal mode with macroscopic photon occupation [6]. Such capabilities are poised to unlock a new era of (extreme) nonlinear quantum optics in the attosecond [7] regime. [1] C. Riek et al.; Science 350, 420-423 (2015) [2] I-C. Benea-Chelmus et al.; Nature 568, 202-206 (2019) [3] S. Virally, P. Cusson, DVS; Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 270504 (2021) [4] S. Gündoğdu et al; Laser Phot. Rev. 17, 2200706 (2023) [5] S. Onoe, S. Virally, DVS; arXiv:2307.13088 (2023) [6] P. Cusson, S. Virally, DVS; IRMMW-THz Conference, paper Th-PM2-5-7 (2023) [7] 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier. Experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses for studying electron dynamics in matter.

Denis Seletskiy is an Associate Professor of Engineering Physics and a holder of Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in "Ultrafast and Quantum Photonics" at Polytechnique Montréal (Canada). He received his PhD from the Optical Sciences and Engineering program at the University of New Mexico in 2010, followed by a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Air Force Research Laboratories (2010-2012) and a 5-year junior group leader position and Marie Curie Zukuntskolleg Research fellowship at the University of Konstanz, Germany. In 2017 Seletskiy established the femtoQ laboratory at Polytechnique, which is focused on advancing theory, laser technology, and metrology protocols for time-domain quantum photonics. Since October 2022, he is leading an EU-CAN consortium in Mid-Infrared Quantum Technologies for Sensing (MIRAQLS).

I will introduce the quantum algorithms to estimate the quantum Fisher information and prepare the optimal quantum states to maximize the quantum Fisher information, which can be implemented on the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. This talk is based on the following references: [1] Jacob L. Beckey, M. Cerezo, Akira Sone, and Patrick J. Coles, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013083 (2022) [2] M. Cerezo, Akira Sone, Jacob L. Beckey, and Patrick J. Coles, Quantum Sci. Technol. 6 035008 (2021) [3] Akira Sone, M. Cerezo, Jacob L. Beckey, and Patrick J Coles, Phys. Rev. A 104, 062602 (2021)

Akira Sone earned his Ph.D. in Quantum Engineering from MIT at 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Paola Cappellaro. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Theoretical Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on the near-term quantum algorithms under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Coles from 2019 to 2021. After working as a research software engineer at the Aliro Technologies, Inc under the supervision of Prof. Prineha Narang from 2021 to 2022, he is currently an assistant professor of physics at University of Massachusetts Boston, working on the quantum machine learning, quantum sensing and quantum thermodynamics.