PhD
Resource-constrained entanglement distribution and quantum compilation.
Supervised by Prof. Nicolas Sangouard in the Quantum Information Group at the Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay and Paris-Saclay University.
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The full thesis, defended in September 2026.
Short opening animation in french and defense slides.
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Within the European Quantum Internet Alliance, I studied 1G quantum communication architectures based on the DLCZ protocol for continent-scale quantum communication. I developed an exact model of a DLCZ-type elementary repeater link, based on photon pair sources and mid-point detection for entanglement swapping. I validated the model against experimental data, and used it to characterise the heralded state. I also built an entanglement witness, based on LOCC, able to witness entanglement in the quantum repeater. Finally, I worked on the performance of a full quantum repeater in a realistic scenario (~500 km), and studied the heterogeneous interface between metropolitan networks and long-distance links.
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I used an AlphaZero-inspired agent for automatic quantum circuit synthesis, focusing on subroutines implementation. Once trained, the agent was able to synthesise standard subroutines such as the Fredkin or Toffoli gate in a few seconds, with optimal -count. The pipeline has been extended to support ancilla-based architectures with feed-forward correction.
