Agata Branczyk

Portrait of a woman wearing a black shirt sitting in front of a bookshelf
IBM (Canada)
Affiliate
Areas of research:
Quantum Information
Other
https://www.agatabranczyk.com

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
IQC Affiliate, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

Please refer to my personal website and publications for information on my research interests.
  • 2015 - present Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Adjunct Assistant Professor
  • 2013 - present Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, PSI Fellow
  • 2010 - 2013 Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • L. G. Helt, Agata M. Branczyk, Marco Liscidini, M. J. Steel, Parasitic photon-pair suppression via photonic stop-band engineering, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073603 (2017), arXiv: 1609.00106
  • A Dosseva, L Cincio, AM Branczyk, Shaping the spectrum of downconverted photons through optimized custom poling, Physical Review A 93, 013801 (2016), arXiv: 1410.7714 [quant-ph]
  • A Chenu, AM Branczyk, JE Sipe, First-order decomposition of thermal light in terms of a statistical mixture of pulses, Phys. Rev. A, 91, 063813 (2015), arXiv: 1412.0017 [quant-ph]
  • A Chenu, AM Branczyk, GD Scholes, JE Sipe, Thermal Light Cannot Be Represented as a Statistical Mixture of Single Pulses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 213601 (2015), arXiv: 1409.1926
  • M Mohammadi and AM Branczyk, Optimization of quantum state tomography in the presence of experimental constraints, Physical Review A 89 (1), 012113 (2014), arXiv: 1311.1516
  • AM Branczyk, DB Turner, GD Scholes, Crossing disciplines - A view on two-dimensional optical spectroscopy, Annalen der Physik 526 (1-2), 31-49 (2013), arXiv: 1307.5855
  • N Quesada, AM Branczyk, DFV James, Self-calibrating tomography for multi-dimensional systems, Phys. Rev. A 87, 062118 (2013), arXiv: 1212.0556
  • M Mohammadi, AM Bran„czyk, DFV James, Fourier-transform quantum state tomography, Physical Review A 87 (1), 012117 (2013), arXiv: 1211.1399
  • AM Bran„czyk, DH Mahler, LA Rozema, A Darabi, AM Steinberg, DFV James, Self-calibrating quantum state tomography, New Journal of Physics 14 (8), 085003 (2012), arXiv: 1112.4492
  • BQ Baragiola, RL Cook, AM Branczyk, J Combes, N-photon wave packets interacting with an arbitrary quantum system, Physical Review A 86 (1), 013811 (2012), arXiv: 1202.3430
  • AM Bran„czyk, A Fedrizzi, TM Stace, TC Ralph, AG White, Engineered optical nonlinearity for quantum light sources, Optics Express 19 (1), 55-65 (2011), arXiv: 1005.3086
  • AM Branczyk, TC Ralph, W Helwig, C Silberhorn, Optimized generation of heralded Fock states using parametric down-conversion, New Journal of Physics 12, 063001 (2010), arXiv: 0909.4147
  • AM Branczyk, TC Ralph, Teleportation using squeezed single photons, Physical Review A 78 (5), 052304 (2008), arXiv: 0806.4211
  • TA Nieminen, VLY Loke, AB Stilgoe, G Knöner, AM Branczyk, NR Heckenberg, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Optical tweezers computational toolbox, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 9, S196 (2007)
  • AM Branczyk, PEMF Mendonça, A Gilchrist, AC Doherty, SD Bartlett, Quantum control of a single qubit, Physical Review A 75 (1), 012329 (2007), arXiv: quant-ph/0608037
  • AM Bran„czyk, TJ Osborne, A Gilchrist, TC Ralph, Photon-added detection, Physical Review A 68 (4), 043821 (2003), arXiv: quant-ph/0305185
  • Aurelia Chenu, Agata M. Branczyk, and J. E. Sipe, Thermal States and Wave Packets, arXiv: 1609.00014
  • Agata M. Branczyk, Aurelia Chenu, and J. E. Sipe, Thermal Light as a Mixture of Sets of Pulses, arXiv: 1605.06518
  • CH Chang, AM Branczyk, GD Scholes, DFV James, An excitation-dependent four-level model for quantum entanglement in photosynthetic systems, arXiv: 1202.3439
  • AM Branczyk, TM Stace and TC Ralph, Time Ordering in Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1363, 335-338 (2011), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3630207
  • AM Branczyk, TA Nieminen, NR Heckenberg, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Optical trapping of a cube, Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) 17th National Congress (2006), arXiv: physics/0702045
  • TA Nieminen, VLY Loke, AM Branczyk, NR Heckenberg, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Towards efficient modelling of optical micromanipulation of complex structures, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, 442-446 (2006), arXiv: physics/0607231
  • VLY Loke, TA Nieminen, AM Branczyk, NR Heckenberg, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Modelling optical micro-machines, 9th International Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Non-Spherical Particles: Theory, Measurements, and Applications (2006), arXiv: physics/0607286
  • Thermal light as a mixture of sets of coherent pulses, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose (June 5-10, 2016)
  • Convex decompositions of Thermal Equilibrium for Non-interacting Non-relativistic Particles, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose (June 5-10, 2016)
  • Customizing the joint spectrum of quantum light generated via nonlinear optics, TRR Guest Scientist Lecture/Seminar, University of Paderborn, Germany (May 2, 2016) [invited speaker]
  • Customizing joint spectral amplitudes of nonlinear-optical photon-pair sources, Workshop on Scalable Information Processing with Quantum Nano-Photonics, Waltham, MA, USA (Mar. 31 - Apr. 1, 2016) [invited speaker]
  • Nonlinear optics...and the quest for pure quantum states of light, Science and Technology Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA (Feb. 16, 2016) [invited speaker]
  • Nonlinear optics...and the quest for pure single photons, Colloquium, Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada (Jan. 6, 2016) [invited speaker]
  • Nonclassical states of light, Colloquium, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA (Oct. 16, 2015) [invited speaker]
  • Pure heralded single photons, Conference on Quantum Information & Quantum Control, Toronto, Canada (Aug. 17-22, 2015)
  • Pure heralded single photons, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose (May 10-14, 2015)
  • Quantum states of light, New York State Section of the American Physical Society 112th topical symposium: Quantum Computing and Communication, (Fredonia, USA, Apr. 24-25) [invited speaker]
  • Pure single photons, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Nov. 11, 2014)
  • Shaping the spectrum of down converted photons through optimized custom poling, Centre for Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (Nov. 13, 2014)
  • Photosynthesis, coherence and sunlight, Last Frontiers in Quantum Information, Denali Park, USA (Jul. 17-21, 2013) [invited speaker]
  • Photosynthesis, coherence and sunlight, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, (Jul. 3, 2013)
  • Incoherent light vs. femtosecond pulses, Quantum Effects in Biolgoical Systems Workshop, Vienna, Austria (Jun. 29 - Jul. 3, 2013)
  • Holistic Tomography, Workshop on the Mathematical Methods of Quantum Tomography, Toronto, Canada (Feb. 19-22, 2013), http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/video-archive/2013/02/119-1377 [invited speaker]
  • Holistic Tomography, Controlled Quantum Dynamics Group, Imperial College London, London, (Nov. 14, 2012)
  • Self-calibrating quantum state tomography, 21st International Laser Physics Workshop, Calgary, Canada (Jul. 23-27, 2012) [invited speaker]
  • Quantum State Tomography of Photosynthetic Systems, Institute for Quantum Information Science, The University of Calgary, Canada (Jul. 18, 2012)
  • Quantum Information, Department of Physics "InReach" program, University of Toronto, Canada (Feb 2012) [invited speaker]
  • Self-calibrating quantum state tomography, Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, USA (Oct. 16-20, 2011)
  • Toward quantum state tomography of multi-chromophoric systems, Quantum Science Symposium, Boston, USA (Sep. 26-27, 2011) [invited speaker]
  • Nonlinear spectroscopy and tomography of light harvesting complexes, The Center for Quantum Information and Control, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA (Sep. 23, 2011)
  • Engineered optical nonlinearity for a quantum light source, APS March Meeting, Dallas, USA, (Mar. 21-25, 2011)
  • Quantum Computing: More than just 1s and 0s, Toronto Catholic District School Board Gifted Students" Conference, University of Toronto, Canada (Feb 2011)
  • Spectral Properties of Down-converted Photons, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo (Sep. 23, 2010)
  • Spectral Properties of Down-converted Photons, University of Toronto (Sep. 20, 2010)
  • Spectral Properties of Down-converted Photons, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA (Sep. 14, 2010)
  • Optimised generation of heralded Fock states using PDC, Centre for Quantum Computing Technology Theory Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, (Nov. 6, 2009)
  • Quantum Computing with Kittens, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen (Oct 23, 2008)
  • Quantum Computing with Kittens, University of Bristol, Bristol (Oct 15, 2008)
  • Quantum Computing with Kittens, 4th Asia Pacific Conference in Quantum Information Science, Palm Cove, Australia (Jul. 2-5, 2008)
  • Quantum Computing with Kittens, Centre for Quantum Computing Technology Annual Workshop, Melbourne, Australia (Feb. 18-20, 2008)
  • Coherent State Quantum Computation, Teach at the Beach Workshop, North Stradbroke Island, Australia (Feb. 8-10, 2008)
  • Coherent State Quantum Computation Using Squeezed Single Photons, European Young Scientists Conference on Quantum Information, Vienna, Austria (Aug. 27-31, 2007)
  • PIRSA:16040004, PSI 2015/2016 Explorations in Quantum Information - Agata Branczyk - 13, 2016-04-07
  • PIRSA:16040003, PSI 2015/2016 Explorations in Quantum Information - Agata Branczyk - 12, 2016-04-06
  • PIRSA:16040002, PSI 2015/2016 Explorations in Quantum Information - Agata Branczyk - 11, 2016-04-05
  • PIRSA:16040001, PSI 2015/2016 Explorations in Quantum Information - Agata Branczyk - 10, 2016-04-04
  • PIRSA:15080095, Quantum Mechanics, 2015-08-14, PSI 2015/2016 Quantum Mechanics - Aggie Branczyk
  • PIRSA:15080094, Quantum Mechanics - 3, 2015-08-13, PSI 2015/2016 Quantum Mechanics - Aggie Branczyk
  • PIRSA:15080093, Quantum Mechanics - 2, 2015-08-12, PSI 2015/2016 Quantum Mechanics - Aggie Branczyk
  • PIRSA:15080092, PSI 2015/2016 Quantum Mechanics - Aggie Branczyk - 1, 2015-08-11, PSI 2015/2016 Quantum Mechanics - Aggie Branczyk
  • PIRSA:14090052, 14/15 PSI Quantum Theory-9, 2014-09-18, 14/15 PSI - Quantum Theory
  • PIRSA:14080027, 14/15 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 4, 2014-08-22, 14/15 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:14080026, 14/15 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 3, 2014-08-21, 14/15 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:14080025, 14/15 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 2, 2014-08-20, 14/15 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:14080024, 14/15 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 1, 2014-08-19, 14/15 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:13080035, 13/14 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 4, 2013-08-30, 13/14 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:13080034, 13/14 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 3, 2013-08-29, 13/14 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:13080033, 13/14 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 2, 2013-08-28, 13/14 PSI - Front End
  • PIRSA:13080032, 13/14 PSI - Quantum Mechanics - Lecture 1, 2013-08-27, 13/14 PSI - Front End