Nicolás Quesada

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nicolás Quesada is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolás Quesada has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 30 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicolás Quesada's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (40 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (21 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (15 papers). Nicolás Quesada is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (40 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (21 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (15 papers). Nicolás Quesada collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Nicolás Quesada's co-authors include Juan Miguel Arrazola, Nathan Killoran, L. G. Helt, Josh Izaac, J. E. Sipe, M. Menotti, Lars S. Madsen, Ish Dhand, Jonathan Lavoie and Trevor Vincent and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Nicolás Quesada

44 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor
    2022 603 citations Lars S. Madsen, Fabian Laudenbach et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolás Quesada Canada 18 1.3k 918 396 65 58 48 1.6k
E. Jeffrey United States 16 1.5k 1.2× 1.6k 1.8× 349 0.9× 38 0.6× 86 1.5× 41 1.9k
Quntao Zhuang United States 23 1.4k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 241 0.6× 33 0.5× 92 1.6× 98 1.7k
Juan Miguel Arrazola Canada 20 1.1k 0.9× 740 0.8× 174 0.4× 66 1.0× 92 1.6× 45 1.3k
Scott Glancy United States 18 1.8k 1.4× 1.9k 2.0× 301 0.8× 44 0.7× 82 1.4× 39 2.1k
Guilherme B. Xavier Chile 17 980 0.8× 924 1.0× 297 0.8× 29 0.4× 28 0.5× 60 1.2k
Joseph B. Altepeter United States 17 1.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 235 0.6× 27 0.4× 82 1.4× 47 1.7k
Ish Dhand Germany 13 911 0.7× 727 0.8× 276 0.7× 56 0.9× 52 0.9× 21 1.2k
Daniel J. Brod Brazil 17 1.2k 0.9× 818 0.9× 374 0.9× 21 0.3× 44 0.8× 33 1.4k
Stefano Paesani United Kingdom 14 1.2k 0.9× 638 0.7× 781 2.0× 35 0.5× 42 0.7× 44 1.5k
Stefanie Barz Germany 13 1.2k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 195 0.5× 34 0.5× 42 0.7× 31 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolás Quesada

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolás Quesada

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicolás Quesada. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicolás Quesada based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nicolás Quesada. Nicolás Quesada is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Houde, Martin, et al.. (2025). Ultrashort-pulse-pumped, single-mode type-0 squeezers in lithium niobate nanophotonics. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 3(6). 560–560.
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Quesada, Nicolás, et al.. (2025). Strategies for generating separable photon triplets in waveguides and ring resonators. Quantum Science and Technology. 10(4). 45045–45045.
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Oh, Changhun, Bill Fefferman, Liang Jiang, & Nicolás Quesada. (2024). Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithm for Graph Problems by Gaussian Boson Sampling. PRX Quantum. 5(2). 5 indexed citations
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Houde, Martin, Will McCutcheon, & Nicolás Quesada. (2024). Matrix decompositions in quantum optics: Takagi/Autonne, Bloch–Messiah/Euler, Iwasawa, and Williamson. Canadian Journal of Physics. 102(10). 497–507. 14 indexed citations
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Thekkadath, Guillaume, Martin Houde, Duncan England, et al.. (2024). Gain-Induced Group Delay in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion. Physical Review Letters. 133(20). 203601–203601. 4 indexed citations
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Yao, Yuan, Filippo M. Miatto, & Nicolás Quesada. (2024). Riemannian optimization of photonic quantum circuits in phase and Fock space. SciPost Physics. 17(3). 9 indexed citations
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Fonseca-Romero, K. M., et al.. (2023). Classical models may be a better explanation of the Jiuzhang 1.0 Gaussian Boson Sampler than its targeted squeezed light model. Quantum. 7. 1076–1076. 11 indexed citations
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Peter, Yves-Alain & Nicolás Quesada. (2023). Custom Nonlinearity Profile for Integrated Quantum Light Sources. Physical Review Applied. 19(5). 1 indexed citations
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Madsen, Lars S., Fabian Laudenbach, Fabien Rortais, et al.. (2022). Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor. Nature. 606(7912). 75–81. 603 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qi, Haoyu, et al.. (2022). Efficient sampling from shallow Gaussian quantum-optical circuits with local interactions. Physical review. A. 105(5). 5 indexed citations
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Qi, Haoyu, Daniel J. Brod, Nicolás Quesada, & Raúl García−Patrón. (2020). Regimes of Classical Simulability for Noisy Gaussian Boson Sampling. Physical Review Letters. 124(10). 100502–100502. 51 indexed citations
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Vernon, Z., et al.. (2020). Scalable squeezed light source for continuous variable quantum sampling. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 112. FTu3C.3–FTu3C.3. 3 indexed citations
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Quesada, Nicolás & Juan Miguel Arrazola. (2020). Exact simulation of Gaussian boson sampling in polynomial space and exponential time. Physical Review Research. 2(2). 33 indexed citations
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Jahangiri, Soran, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Nicolás Quesada, & Nathan Killoran. (2020). Point processes with Gaussian boson sampling. Physical review. E. 101(2). 22134–22134. 28 indexed citations
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Quesada, Nicolás. (2018). A faster calculation of Franck-Condon factors and Fock matrix elements of Gaussian unitaries using loop hafnians. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Quesada, Nicolás, et al.. (2015). Time-Ordering Effects in the Generation of Entangled Photons Using Nonlinear Optical Processes. Physical Review Letters. 114(9). 93903–93903. 31 indexed citations
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Quesada, Nicolás, et al.. (2014). Quantum Correlations in Optical Metrology: Beating the Heisenberg Limit without Entanglement. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Quesada, Nicolás, Agata M. Brańczyk, & Daniel F. V. James. (2013). Holistic Quantum State and Process Tomography. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). FW1C.6–FW1C.6.
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Quesada, Nicolás, et al.. (2010). Density operator of a system pumped with polaritons: a Jaynes–Cummings-like approach. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 23(2). 25301–25301. 7 indexed citations

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