TNW-ANP-AQO

I am an assistant professor in the Adaptive Quantum Optics group. My research interests center on multiphoton quantum optics, integrated photonics, and quantum complexity. 

Bio:

I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Leiden, with a final project at the Niels Bohr Institute. I obtained my PhD in Leiden cum laude on the detection mechanism of superconducting single photon detectors. After that, I was at the University of Oxford in the group of Ian Walmsley on a Rubicon grant, and on a Junior Research Fellowship from Queen's College. There I worked on multiphoton quantum interference, both theoretically and experimentally. After that, I moved to the UT on a Veni grant, before starting as an assistant professor in 2020.

Expertise

  • Physics

    • Photonics
    • Sampling
    • Photons
    • Interference
    • Boson
    • Quantum Information Processing
    • Silicon Nitride
    • Networks

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I am interested in finding new information processing tasks which can be performed in photonics, and in experimentally demonstrating such tasks. I have an interest in the engineering of the large-scale photonic chips needed for quantum information processing. I also have an interest in computational complexity problems related to photonics. In the past, I have worked on superconducting single photon detectors, plasmonics, atomic physics and parametric down conversion.

Publications

2024

Perfectly indistinguishable photons with imperfect single photon sources (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Single Photon Workshop, SPW 2024. Somhorst, F., Sauër, B. K., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J. J.A novel qubit filter for photonic quantum computing (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] MESA+ Day 2024. Somhorst, F., Sauer, K., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J. J.Efficient classical algorithm for simulating boson sampling with inhomogeneous partial distinguishability (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. van den Hoven, S., Kanis, E. & Renema, J. J.Experimental Simulation of Loop Quantum Gravity on a Photonic Chip (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition 2024. Correa Anguita, M., van der Meer, R., Zichang, H., Qu, D., Hooijschuur, P., Liu, H., Han, M., Renema, J. J. & Cohen, L.Imperfections in heralding three-photon GHZ states for quantum computing applications (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition 2024. Somhorst, F. & Renema, J. J.Photon distillation schemes with reduced resource costs based on multiphoton Fourier interference (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Somhorst, F., Sauër, B. K., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J. J.https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14262Data underlying the manuscript: "Photon distillation schemes with reduced resource costs based on multiphoton Fourier interference" (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Somhorst, F., Sauër, B. K., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J.https://doi.org/10.4121/c0c83c18-f38b-46b8-b4f4-67964cb611d0Classical algorithm for imperfect boson sampling (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] PIC Summit Europe 2024. van den Hoven, S., Renema, J. J. & Kanis, E.Extending classical boson sampling techniques (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition 2024. van den Hoven, S., Renema, J. J. & Kanis, E.

2023

Experimental simulation of loop quantum gravity on a photonic chip (2023)NPJ Quantum Information, 9. Article 32. van der Meer, R., Huang, Z., Correa Anguita, M., Qu, D., Hooijschuur, P., Liu, H., Han, M., Renema, J. J. & Cohen, L.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-023-00702-y

Research profiles

I am currently looking for BSc and MSc students, and PhD candidates. If you are interested and have the required background, please contact me via email.

Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ME123
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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