Quantum Information Science
I am a researcher in quantum information science (QIS), a field of study that concerns quantum communication, computation, cryptography and fundamental aspects of quantum information.
Quantum information is what you get when you turn quantum systems into information carriers: instead of the normal bit, you have qubits, that have many wonderful properties that don’t exist for classical information: superpositions, entanglement, no-cloning, no-deletion. The goal of quantum information science is to leverage all these (so-called ‘non-classical’) phenomena to build better, faster and more efficient computers, networks, encryption and data processing.
My research in quantum information science has explored different topics. During my master’s, I explored quantum error correction and fault tolerance, techniques fundamentally necessary for quantum computers to work in the presence of noise. My MSc. thesis specifically focussed on implementing a fault-tolerant SWAP gate, a rudimentary building block for quantum circuits. The research I have performed during my PhD can be divided roughly into two topics: Anonymous communication in quantum networks, and (multi-partite) entanglement in networks and graph states.
PhD thesis
For more info one my PhD thesis, see here.
Talks
Although it is part of everyone’s job to some extent, not everyone in academia enjoys giving talks and lectures. I do, though, both within and outside the community. A selection of the academic talks that I have given over the last few years can be found here.
Publications
A quick overview of my publications, ordered by topic, is as follows. You can click the headers for a more in-depth look at both topics.
Anonymous quantum communication
- Anonymous Conference Key Agreement (link)
- Anonymous and secret communications in quantum networks (link)
- Secure Anonymous Conferencing in Quantum Networks (link)
- Experimental anonymous conference key agreement using linear cluster states (link)
- Anonymous conference key agreement in linear quantum networks (link)