Horst Complex

dr. J.J. Renema (Jelmer)

Assistant Professor
TNW-ANP-AQO
Horst Complex ME123
j.j.renema@utwente.nl
+31534891629
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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
    • Boson
    • Photons
    • Interference
    • Quantum Information Processing
    • Silicon Nitride
    • Quantum Computing

Organisations

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

2025

Why we need triangular PICs (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] PIC Summit Europe 2025. Somhorst, F. & Renema, J. J.Single photons in linear optics: Quantum computing and quantum simulations (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Correa Anguita, M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036569224Extracting the photon indistinguishability error from measurable quantum observables (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Somhorst, F. H. B., Saied, J., Rieffel, E. G. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.01731Experimental validation of boson sampling using detector binning (2025)Quantum Science and Technology, 10(3). Article 035062. Correa Anguita, M., Camillini, A., Marzban, S., Robbio, M., Seron, B., Novo, L. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/adecbcMitigating quantum operation infidelity through engineering the distribution of photon losses (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Somhorst, F. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.04805Data underlying the publication: Experimental validation of boson sampling using detector binning (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Correa Anguita, M., Camillini, A., Seron, B., Marzban, S., Robbio, M., Novo, L. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.4121/1ad5f239-5c41-4870-890a-91a2fa1b6653A Quantum-Inspired Algorithm for Sampler-Encoded Graph Isomorphism (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 12th Annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, BQIT 2025. Maxwell, I. L., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J. J.Photon-distillation schemes with reduced resource costs based on multiphoton Fourier interference (2025)Physical review applied, 23(4). Article 044003. Somhorst, F., Sauër, B. K., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.23.044003Photon distillation with reduced resource costs for fault-tolerant quantum computation (2025)In Quantum Computing, Communication, and Simulation V. Article 1339110 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13391). SPIE. Somhorst, F., Sauër, B. K., van den Hoven, S. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3041144Experimental validation of boson sampling using detector binning (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Correa Anguita, M., Camillini, A., Marzban, S., Robbio, M., Seron, B., Novo, L. & Renema, J. J.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.05093

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 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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University of Twente

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

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