Agata Branczyk

Research Interests

Please refer to my personal website and publications for information on my research interests.

Positions Held

• 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

Recent Publications

• 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

Seminars

• 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