Associate

	Raymond Laflamme PhD Cambridge (1988) University of Waterloo/IQC
	Phone:	(519) 888-4567 x32430
	Email:	laflamme[at]iqc.ca

Raymond obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge, in 1988. He began his career working with Stephen Hawking on questions in quantum gravity and cosmology, but has moved to the field of quantum information. His researchencompassboth theory and experiments in quantum information science.

Affiliations

Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

Positions Held

• June 2006-present Scientific Director, QuantumWorks
• August 2004 Visitor, Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK), Program on Quantum Information
• October 2003-present Director, Quantum Information Program at CIFAR,
• April 2002-present Director, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
• September 2001-present Professor, Department of Physics, University of Waterloo
• September 2001-present Associate Researcher at Perimeter Institute
• July 2000 Visiting Scientist, Francis Bitter Lab., MIT
• August 1999 Visitor at the Newton Institute for the Quantum Computing program
• 1997-2001 Technical staff member, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Summer 1996 Visitor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (University of California at Santa-Barbara) for the Quantum Computation Program
• May-June 1994 Visitor at the Newton Institute for the Quantum Gravity program
• 1994-1997 Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 1992-1994 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 1990-1992 Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK
• Fall 1988 Visitor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (University of California at Santa-Barbara) for the Cosmology and Microphysics Program
• May 1988 Visitor at the Instituto de Optica, Daza de Valdes, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, for the British-Spanish Joint Research Program
• 1988-1990 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia

Awards

• Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, renewal, 2009-present.
• Diplomes Influents de l'Universite Laval.
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2008.
• Premier's Discovery award in Natural Science and Engineering (including a $500 000 grant).
• NSERC's inaugural Top 50 Discoveries list for 2006.
• M?edaille Grande Escolle de l'Association des Diplom?es de l'Universit?e Laval, 2005.
• Ivey Foundation Fellow at CIFAR, 2005-present.
• Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, 2002-2008.
• Premier Research Award, Government of Ontario, 2002-2007
• Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Fellow in the Quantum Information Program, 2001-present.
• Achievement Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1998.
• Top ten breakthrough of the year in the journal Science, 1998.
• Oppenheimer Fellowship held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1994-1997.
• Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship held at the University of British Columbia, 1988-1990.
• Canadian Institute of Theoretical Physics (CITA) National Fellow, 1988.
• Girton College Research Studentship, 1987-1988.
• J.T.Knight Prize (University of Cambridge), 1986.
• Girton College Graduate Scholarship, 1984-1985.
• Phyllis Tillyard Prize (Girton College), 1984.

Recent Publications

• Urbasi Sinha, Christophe Couteau, Fay Dowker, Thomas Jennewein, Greogor Weihs, and Raymond Laflamme. A triple slit test for quantum mechanics. Physics in Canada, August, 2010.
• CM Chandrashekar, R. Srikanth, and R Laflamme. Optimizing the discrete time quantum walk using a SU(2) coin (vol 77, 032326, 2008). Physical Review A, 82(019902), 2010.
• Urbasi Sinha, Christophe Couteau, Thomas Jennewein, Raymond Laflamme, and Gregor Weihs. Ruling out multi-order interference in quantum mechanics. Science, 329(418-421), 2010 and arxiv: 1007.4193
• O Moussa, CA Ryan, DG Cory, and R Laflamme. Testing contextuality on quantum ensembles with one clean qubit. Physical Review Letters, 104(160501), 2010 and arxiv: 0912.0485
• T. D. Ladd, F. Jelezko, R. Laflamme, Y. Nakamura, C. Monroe, and J. L. Oâ??Brien. Quantum computers. Nature, 464(7285):45â??53, 2010.
• Gina Passante, Osama Moussa, Colm A. Ryan, and R. Laflamme. Experimental approximation of the jones polynomial with dqc1 experimental approximation of the jones polynomial with dqc1 experimental approximation of the jones polynomial with dqc1. Physical Review Letters, 103(250501), 2009 and arxiv: 0909.1550
• J. Zhang, F.M. Cucchietti, C. Chandrashekar, M. Laforest, C.A. Ryan, M. Ditty, A. Hubbard, J.K. Gamble, and R. Laflamme. Direct observation of quantum criticality in ising spin chains. arxiv: 0808.1536 and Physical Review A, 79:012305, 2009
• U. Sinha, C. Couteau, Z. Medendorp, I. Sollner, R. Laflamme, R. Sorkin, and G. Weihs. Testing born's rule in quantum mechanics with a triple slit experiment. Foundations of Probability and Physics-5, L. Accardi, G. Adenier, C. Fuchs, G. Jaeger, A. Yu. Khrennikov, J.-?A. Larsson, S. Stenholm (Eds.), American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, New-York, 1101:200-207, 2009.
• Chris Erven, Xiongfeng Ma, Raymond Laflamme, and Gregor Weihs. Entangled quantum key distribution with a biased basis choice. New Journal of Physics, (11):045025, 2009.
• C.A. Ryan, M. M. Laforest, and R. Laflamme. Randomized benchmarking of single and multi-qubit control in liquid-state nmr quantum information processing. New Journal of Physics, 11(013034), 2009 and arxiv: 0808.3973
• A Pasieka, D.W. Kribs, R. Laflamme, and R. Pereira. On the geometric interpretation of single qubit quantum operations on the bloch sphere. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, to appear 2009.
• Jingfu Zhang, Michael Ditty, Daniel Burgarth, Colm A. Ryan, C.M. Chandrashekar, Martin Laforest, Osama Moussa, Jonathan Baugh, and Raymond Laflamme. Quantum data bus in dipolar coupled nuclear spin qubits. Physical Review A, 80(012316), 2009 and arxiv: 0902.3719
• Chris Erven, Xiongfeng Ma, Raymond Laflamme, and Gregor Weihs. Entangled quantum key distribution with a biased basis choice. New Journal of Physics, (11):045025, 2009 and arxiv: 0901.0960
• M. Razavi, I. Sollner, E. Bocquillon, C. Couteau, R. Laflamme, , and G. Weihs. Characterizing heralded single-photon sources with imperfect measurement devices. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 42:114013, 2009 and arxiv: 0812.2445
• A Pasieka, D.W. Kribs, R. Laflamme, and R. Pereira. On the geometric interpretation of single qubit quantum operations on the bloch sphere. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, www.springerlink.com/content/1097u1t485053w54/, 2009.
• C.A. Ryan, M. M. Laforest, and R. Laflamme. Randomized benchmarking of single and multi-qubit control in liquid-state nmr quantum information processing. New Journal of Physics, 11(013034), 2009 and arxiv: 0808.3973
• E. Bocquillon, C. Couteau, M. Razavi, R. Laflamme, and G. Weihs. Coherence measures for heralded single-photon sources. Phys. Rev. A, 79(035801), 2008 and arxiv: 0807.1725
• R. Ursin, T. Jennewein, J. Kofler, J.M. Perdigues, L. Cacciapuoti, C.J. de Matos, M. Aspelmeyer, A. Valencia, T. Scheidl, A. Fedrizzi, A. Acin, C. Barbieri, G. Bianco, C. Brukner, J. Capmany, S. Cova, D. Giggenbach, W. Leeb, R.H. Hadfield, R. Laflamme, N. Lutkenhaus, G. Milburn, M. Peev, T. Ralph, J. Rarity, R. Renner, E. Samain, N. Solomos, W. Tittel, J.P. Torres, M. Toyoshima, A. Ortigosa-Blanch, V. Pruneri, P. Villoresi, I. Walmsley, G. Weihs, H. Weinfurter, M. Zukowski, and A. Zeilinger. Space-quest: Experiments with quantum entanglement in space. Proceedings, International Astronautical Congress (IAC), A2.1.3, 2008.
• C. Erven, C. Couteau, R. Laflamme, and G. Weihs. Entanglement based free-space quantum key distribution. Proc. SPIE, 16:7099, 2008.
• CM Chandrashekar, R. Srikanth, and R. Laflamme. Optimizing the discrete time quantum walk using a su(2) coin. Physical Review A, 77:032326, 2008, arxiv: 0711.1882
• C.A Ryan, O. Moussa, J. Baugh, and R. Laflamme. Spin based heat engine: Demonstration of multiple rounds of algorithmic cooling. Phys. Rev. Lett., 100:140501, 2008.
• C.A Ryan, C. Negrevergne, M. Laforest, E. Knill, and R. Laflamme. Liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance as a testbed for developing quantum control methods. Phys. Rev. A, 78:012328, 2008.
• M. M. Razavi, I. Sollner, C. Bocquillon, E.and Couteau, R. Laflamme, and G. Weihs. Characterizing heralded single-photon sources with imperfect measurement devices. arxiv: 0812.2445, 2008
• C. Erven, C. C. Couteau, R. Laflamme, and G. Weihs. Entangled quantum key distribution over two free-space optical links. Optics Express, 16(21):16840-16853, 2008 and arxiv: 0807.2289
• C.A. Ryan, O. Moussa, J. Baugh, and R. Laflamme. A spin based heat engine: multiple rounds of algorithmic cooling. preprint arXiv, page arxiv: 0706.2853v1, Jun 2007
• M.K. Henry, C. Ramanathan, J. S. Hodges, C. A. Ryan, M. J. Ditty, R. Laflamme, and D. G. Cory. Fidelity enhancement by logical qubit encoding. Physical Review Letters, 99:220501, 2007, also in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, December 10, Volume 16, Issue 24, 2007 Volume 16, Issue 24.
• CM Chandrashekar and R Laflamme. Quantum walk and quantum phase transition in optical lattice. Physical Review A, 78(2):022314, 2007, arxiv: 0709.1986
• J. Baugh, J. Chamilliard, C. M. Chandrashekar, M. Ditty amd A. Hubbard, R. Laflamme, M. Laforest, D. Maslov, O. Moussa, C. Negrevergne, M. Silva, S. Simmon, C. A. Ryan, D. G. Cory, J. S. Hodges, and C. Ramanathan. Quantum information processing using nuclear and electron magnetic resonance: review and prospects. Physics in Canada, 63, Oct-Dec, Special Issue on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information(4):197-206, 2007.
• R Laflamme. Perspective on quantum information processing in canada. Physics in Canada, 63:171-172, 2007.
• Joseph Emerson, Marcus Silva, Osama Moussa, Colm Ryan, Martin Laforest, Jonathan Baugh, David G. Cory, and Raymond Laflamme. Symmetrized characterization of noisy quantum processes. Science, 317:1893-1896, 2007 and arxiv: 0707.0685v1
• P. Hawrylak and R. Laflamme. Quantum information and quantum computing. Physics in Canada, 63:169-170, 2007.
• Martin Laforest, Damien Simon, Jean-Christian Boileau, Jonathan Baugh, Michael J. Ditty, and Raymond Laflamme. Using error correction to determine the noise model. Physical Review A, 75, 2007.
• C Negrevergne, TS Mahesh, CA Ryan, M Ditty, F Cyr-Racine, W Power, N Boulant, T Havel, DG Cory, and R Laflamme. Benchmarking quantum control methods on a 12-qubit system. Physical Review Letters, 96:170501, 2006 and also Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology - May 15, 2006 Volume 13, Issue 19.
• J Baugh, O Moussa, CA Ryan, R Laflamme, C Ramanathan, TF Havel, and DG Cory. Solid-state nmr three-qubit homonuclear system for quantum-information processing: Control and characterization. Physical Review A, 73:022305, 2006 and and Virtual Journal of Quantum Information - February 2006 Volume 6, Issue 2.
• TY Chen, J Zhang, JC Boileau, XM Jin, B Yang, Q Zhang, T Yang, R Laflamme, and JW Pan. Experimental quantum communication without a shared reference frame. Physical Review Letters, 96,2006.
• David W. Kribs, Raymond Laflamme, David Poulin, and Maia Lesosky. Operator quantum error correction. Quantum Information & Computation, 6:382-398, 2006.
• M Laforest, J Baugh, and R Laflamme. Time-reversal formalism applied to maximal bipartite entanglement: Theoretical and experimental exploration. Physical Review A, 73, 2006.
• Jonathan Baugh, Osama Moussa, Colm A. Ryan, Ashwin Nayak, Raymond Laflamme, Experimental implementation of heat-bath algorithmic cooling using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Nature 438, 470-473 (2005), arxiv: quant-ph/0512024
• C.A. Ryan, M. Laforest, J.C. Boileau, R. Laflamme, Experimental Implementation of Discrete Time Quantum Random Walk on an NMR Quantum Information Processor, Physical Review A 72, 062317 (2005), arxiv: quant-ph/0507267
• C.A. Ryan, J. Emerson, D. Poulin, C. Negrevergne, R. Laflamme, Characterization of complex quantum dynamics with a scalable NMR information processor, Physical Review Letters, 95, 250502 (2005), arxiv: quant-ph/0506085
• M. D. Bowdrey, J. A. Jones, E. Knill, R. Laflamme, Compiling gate networks on an Ising quantum computer, Phys. Rev. A 72, 032315 (2005), arxiv: quant-ph/0506006
• David W. Kribs, Raymond Laflamme, David Poulin, Maia Lesosky, Operator quantum error correction, Quant. Inf. & Comp., 6 (2006), 383-399., arxiv: quant-ph/0504189
• David Kribs, Raymond Laflamme, David Poulin, A Unified and Generalized Approach to Quantum Error Correction, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 180501 (2005), arxiv: quant-ph/0412076
• J.-C. Boileau, K. Tamaki, J. Batuwantudawe, R. Laflamme, J.M. Renes, Unconditional Security of Three State Quantum Key Distribution Protocols, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 040503 (2005), arxiv: quant-ph/0408085
• J.-C. Boileau, R. Laflamme, M. Laforest, C. R. Myers, Robust Quantum Communication Using A Polarization-Entangled Photon Pair, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 220501 (2004), arxiv: quant-ph/0406118
• J.A. Holbrook, D.W. Kribs, R. Laflamme, Noiseless subsystems and the structure of the commutant in quantum error correction, Quant. Inf. Proc., 2 (2004), 381-419., arxiv: quant-ph/0402056
• Dominic W. Berry, Stefan Scheel, Casey R. Myers, Barry C. Sanders, Peter L. Knight, Raymond Laflamme, Post-processing with linear optics for improving the quality of single-photon sources, New J. Phys. 6, 93 (2004), arxiv: quant-ph/0402018
• David Poulin, Robin Blume-Kohout, Raymond Laflamme, Harold Ollivier, Exponential speed-up with a single bit of quantum information: Testing the quantum butterfly effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 177906 (2004), arxiv: quant-ph/0310038
• J.-C. Boileau, D. Gottesman, R. Laflamme, D. Poulin, R.W. Spekkens, Robust polarization-based quantum key distribution over collective-noise channel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 17901 (2004), arxiv: quant-ph/0306199
• David Poulin, Raymond Laflamme, G.J. Milburn, Juan Pablo Paz, Testing integrability with a single bit of quantum information, Phys. Rev. A 68, 22302 (2003), arxiv: quant-ph/0303042
• G. J. Milburn, R. Laflamme, B. C. Sanders, E. Knill, The quantum dynamics of two coupled qubits, Physical Review A 65(3), 032316 (2002), arxiv: quant-ph/0112001
• Introduction to Quantum Computing, Oxford University Press, 2006 (with P. Kaye & M. Mosca); 274 pages.

Seminars

• Invited speaker Institute for Quantum Computing at Innovation , Emerging Technologies and Global Markets Research Accelerator Center, University of Waterloo, June 3rd 2010.
• Invited speaker The Next Big Question, Where can quantum computing carry us? CIFAR in Ottawa, April 27th 2010.
• Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, 29th of April 2010
• Invited speaker Quantum Computing and Cryptography at the 12th Annual Emerging Technologies Update Day The Future of Computing: Beyond Clouds, Ubiquitous Networks and Smarter-Than-Ever Devices Presented by Mack Center for Technological Innovation UPenn, Philadelphia,March 19th, 2010.
• University of Victoria (Physics Dept), November 25th 2009.
• Triumf, Vancouver, November 26th 2009
• Invited guest and speaker IBM, Markham, October 15th 2009.
• Invited guest and speaker Canadian Quantum Information Student Conference Fields Institute Aug 22nd 2009
• Invited speaker Xborder workshop, Experimental Qunatum Error Correction, University of Ottawa, May 28th 2009
• Invited speaker CIFAR Thirst of knowledge series, A leap into a strange world, May 4th 2009.
• Rountable speaker Science Day at the Public Policy Forum on May 27th, 2009.
• Conferenmce dinner talk ITAC Board of Governor dinner, Kitchener, April 14th 2009.
• Invited speaker Workshop on Quantum Information Science organised by the Office of Science and Technology in the US Vienna, Virginia, 24th of April 2009.
• Invited Speaker Benchmarking quantum information processing devices, Scala Annual meeting, Cortina dâ??Ampezzo, Italy, February 20th 2009.
• Ecole Polytechnique, Montr´eal, January 15th 2009.
• Universite de Sherbrooke, January 14th 2009.
• Discussion Leader, Gordon Conference on quantum information, Big Sky resort, Montana, September 4th 2008.
• Quantum Information in Canada, Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing conference, Calgary August 21st 2008.
• Harnessing the Quantum World, Yale School of Management, New Haven, August 14th 2008.
• Experimental benchamrking of QIP devices, Program review of the Army Research Office, Atlanta, 13th August 2008.
• Noise characterization for quantum information processing devices, Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing conference, Calgary August 21st 2008.
• Herzberg Commemorative conference, Opening lecture of the CAP congress in Quebec City, 8th June 2008.
• Lectures (2) on NMR quantum information processing, Michigan Quantum Summer School, June 16-27,2008 Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Talk at the 5th World Congress of Science Toronto 19th June 2008.
• Collaboration Workshop in Quantum Computing Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles, March 30-31, 2008.
• Quantum Information in Canada, to European Community progam review on quantum information, March 5th 2008.
• Comment les nouvelles technologies changeront-elles le monde? CIFAR, Wednesday, March 26th, 2008.
• Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Italy, November 5th, 2007.
• Photons, Atoms and Qubits conference, 2007 (PAQ07), a conference in honor of Peter Knight 60th birthday, Royal Society, London, 2-5 September 2007.
• Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Sydney, April 20th 2007.
• Center of Quantum Information Technologies Singapore, April 16th 2007.
• American Physical Society, Baltimore, USA, March 2006.
• Kochi Summer School from the National Institute of Informatics, Kochi, Japan, September 2005.
• Enrico Fermi Summer School, Varenna, Italy, July 2005.
• The spirit of discovery, CIAR, May 10th Montreal, 2005.
• DAMOP, American Physical Society Lincoln Nebraska May 2005.
• Quantum Information Festival, Calgary, 21st of January 2005.
• Program on Quantum Information, Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, Tuesday August 24th, 2004.
• Linear Optics Quantum Computing, American Physical Society Meeting, Montreal, March 20th, 2004.
• Washington DARPA FoQus group, Washington, January 25th, 2004.
• Quantum Computation, New Orleans (January 10-12th), Invited Speaker SIAM SODA.
• NMR Quantum Computing, PASI 2003 conference, Buzios (Brazil) conference, December 1-8, 2003.
• The power of one bit of quantum information, Few qubits application conference in Budmerice, Slovakia,Dec 11-14, 2003.
• NMR Quantum Information processing, Rocky Mountain NMR conference, Denver, July 2003.
• Quantum computing by linear optics I and II , 3rd Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information Processing, University of Calgary June 26-27th 2003.
• Quantum Computing, Fields Institute Annual general meeting, June 12th 2003.
• Linear optics quantum information, Cross Border Workshop, Waterloo, May30-June 2nd, 2003.
• NMR quantum information processing, Gordon Conference on NMR in Rhodes Island June 19th, 2003.
• Overview of quantum error correction, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research meeting in Banff 15-17th May, 2003.
• Quantum Error Correction, talk given at the Quantum Control conference in Montreal, October 5th 2002.
• Quantum Computation: Theorist's Dream and Experimenter's Nightmare, American Association for the Advancement of Science: Boston, February 15th, 2002.
• Quantum Computation, Lectures for undegraduates, sponsored by the Canadian Association for Physicists, McGill University, Windsor, Carleton, Regina, Saskatoon, 2002.
• NMR Quantum Computation, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Dec 4th, 2001.
• Quantum Computation, Invited talk, EEC conference, Waterloo, October 2001.
• Resilient quantum computation, Quantum Computing Program Review Baltimore, August 29th, 2001.
• Efficient linear optics quantum computation, seminars, IBM Yorktown, 21st June, 2001.
• Why is quantum computing intersting, TNT seminars, Los Alamos, May 24th, 2001.
• Overview of quantum computing, Invited Speaker, 2001 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Santa Fe smeinars, Los Alamos, April 3rd, 2001.
• NMR Quantum Computation at les Houches winter school on Quantum Information, March 19-30, 2001.
• Quantum Computation during Science Day, Los Alamos Natinal Laboratory, February 13th, 2001.