Branciard Cyril

Research activities:

Publications

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E-prints:

• Benoît Vermersch, Aniket Rath, Bharathan Sundar, Cyril Branciard, John Preskill, and Andreas Elben
  Enhanced estimation of quantum properties with common randomized measurements
  arXiv:2304.12292

Published in peer-reviewed journals / conference proceedings:

1. Marco Fellous-Asiani, Raphaël Mothe, Léa Bresque, Hippolyte Dourdent, Patrice A. Camati, Alastair A. Abbott, Alexia Auffèves, and Cyril Branciard
   Comparing the quantum switch and its simulations with energetically-constrained operations
   Phys. Rev. Research 5, 023111 (2023); e-print arXiv:2208.01952
2. Julian Wechs, Cyril Branciard, and Ognyan Oreshkov
   Existence of processes violating causal inequalities on time-delocalised subsystems
   Nat. Commun. 14, 1471 (2023); e-print arXiv:2201.11832
3. Aniket Rath, Vittorio Vitale, Sara Murciano, Matteo Votto, Jérôme Dubail, Richard Kueng, Cyril Branciard, Pasquale Calabrese, and Benoît Vermersch
   Entanglement Barrier and its Symmetry Resolution: Theory and Experimental Observation
   PRX Quantum 4, 010318 (2023); e-print arXiv:2209.04393
4. Hippolyte Dourdent, Alastair A. Abbott, Nicolas Brunner, Ivan Šupić, and Cyril Branciard
   Semi-Device-Independent Certification of Causal Nonseparability with Trusted Quantum Inputs
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 090402 (2022); e-print arXiv:2107.10877
5. Cen-Xiao Huang, Xiao-Min Hu, Yu Guo, Chao Zhang, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Nicolas Gisin, Cyril Branciard, and Armin Tavakoli
   Entanglement Swapping and Quantum Correlations via Symmetric Joint Measurements
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 030502 (2022); e-print arXiv:2203.16207
6. Aniket Rath, Cyril Branciard, Anna Minguzzi, and Benoît Vermersch
   Quantum Fisher Information from Randomized Measurements
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260501 (2021); e-print arXiv:2105.13164
7. Cyril Branciard, Alexandre Clément, Mehdi Mhalla, and Simon Perdrix
   Coherent control and distinguishability of quantum channels via PBS-diagrams
   46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021), Article No. 22, pp. 22:1–22:20; e-print arXiv:2103.02073
8. Julian Wechs, Hippolyte Dourdent, Alastair A. Abbott, and Cyril Branciard
   Quantum Circuits with Classical Versus Quantum Control of Causal Order
   PRX Quantum 2, 030335 (2021); e-print arXiv:2101.08796
9. Armin Tavakoli, Nicolas Gisin, and Cyril Branciard
   Bilocal Bell Inequalities Violated by the Quantum Elegant Joint Measurement
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220401 (2021); e-print arXiv:2006.16694
10. Márcio M. Taddei, Jaime Cariñe, Daniel Martínez, Tania García, Nayda Guerrero, Alastair A. Abbott, Mateus Araújo, Cyril Branciard, Esteban S. Gómez, Stephen P. Walborn, Leandro Aolita, and Gustavo Lima
    Computational Advantage from the Quantum Superposition of Multiple Temporal Orders of Photonic Gates
    PRX Quantum 2, 010320 (2021); e-print arXiv:2002.07817
11. Giulia Rubino, Lee A. Rozema, Daniel Ebler, Hlér Kristjánsson, Sina Salek, Philippe Allard Guérin, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, Časlav Brukner, Giulio Chiribella, and Philip Walther
    Experimental quantum communication enhancement by superposing trajectories
    Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013093 (2021); e-print arXiv:2007.05005
12. Michael J. W. Hall and Cyril Branciard
    Measurement-dependence cost for Bell nonlocality: Causal versus retrocausal models
    Phys. Rev. A 102, 052228 (2020); e-print arXiv:2007.11903
13. Alastair A. Abbott, Julian Wechs, Dominic Horsman, Mehdi Mhalla, and Cyril Branciard
    Communication through coherent control of quantum channels
    Quantum 4, 333 (2020); e-print arXiv:1810.09826
14. Alastair A. Abbott, Ralph Silva, Julian Wechs, Nicolas Brunner, and Cyril Branciard
    Anomalous Weak Values Without Post-Selection
    Quantum 3, 194 (2019); e-print arXiv:1805.09364
15. Cyril Branciard
    Violation of bilocality in quantum networks
    Nature Photonics 13, 662–663 (2019) — News & Views
16. Massimiliano Proietti, Alexander Pickston, Francesco Graffitti, Peter Barrow, Dmytro Kundys, Cyril Branciard, Martin Ringbauer, and Alessandro Fedrizzi
    Experimental test of local observer independence
    Science Advances 5, eaaw9832 (2019); e-print arXiv:1902.05080
17. Bülent Demirel, Stephan Sponar, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, and Yuji Hasegawa
    Experimental test of an entropic measurement uncertainty relation for arbitrary qubit observables
    New J. Phys. 21, 013038 (2019); e-print arXiv:1711.05023
18. Julian Wechs, Alastair A. Abbott, and Cyril Branciard
    On the definition and characterisation of multipartite causal (non)separability
    New J. Phys. 21, 013027 (2019); e-print arXiv:1807.10557
19. Kaumudibikash Goswami, Christina Giarmatzi, Michael Kewming, Fabio Costa, Cyril Branciard, Jacquiline Romero, and Andrew G. White
    Indefinite Causal Order in a Quantum Switch
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090503 (2018) — Editors’ Suggestion; e-print arXiv:1803.04302
20. Victor Pozsgay, Flavien Hirsch, Cyril Branciard, and Nicolas Brunner
    Covariance Bell inequalities
    Phys. Rev. A 96, 062128 (2017); e-print arXiv:1710.02445
21. Alastair A. Abbott, Julian Wechs, Fabio Costa, and Cyril Branciard
    Genuinely multipartite noncausality
    Quantum 1, 39 (2017); e-print arXiv:1708.07663
22. Nikolai Miklin, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, Rafael Chaves, and Costantino Budroni
    The entropic approach to causal correlations
    New J. Phys. 19, 113041 (2017); e-print arXiv:1706.10270
23. Dylan J. Saunders, Adam J. Bennet, Cyril Branciard, and Geoff J. Pryde
    Experimental demonstration of nonbilocal quantum correlations
    Science Advances 3, e1602743 (2017); e-print arXiv:1610.08514
24. Alastair A. Abbott and Cyril Branciard
    Noise and disturbance of qubit measurements: An information-theoretic characterization
    Phys. Rev. A 94, 062110 (2016); e-print arXiv:1607.00261
25. Alastair A. Abbott, Christina Giarmatzi, Fabio Costa, and Cyril Branciard
    Multipartite causal correlations: Polytopes and inequalities
    Phys. Rev. A 94, 032131 (2016); e-print arXiv:1608.01528
26. Cyril Branciard
    Witnesses of causal nonseparability: an introduction and a few case studies
    Scientific Reports 6, 26018 (2016); e-print arXiv:1603.00043
27. Alastair A. Abbott, Pierre-Louis Alzieu, Michael J. W. Hall, and Cyril Branciard
    Tight State-Independent Uncertainty Relations for Qubits
    Mathematics 4, 8 (2016); e-print arXiv:1512.02383
28. Denis Rosset, Cyril Branciard, Tomer Jack Barnea, Gilles Pütz, Nicolas Brunner, and Nicolas Gisin
    Nonlinear Bell Inequalities Tailored for Quantum Networks
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010403 (2016); e-print arXiv:1506.07380
29. Cyril Branciard, Mateus Araújo, Adrien Feix, Fabio Costa, and Časlav Brukner
    The simplest causal inequalities and their violation
    New J. Phys. 18, 013008 (2016); e-print arXiv:1508.01704
30. Mateus Araújo, Cyril Branciard, Fabio Costa, Adrien Feix, Christina Giarmatzi, and Časlav Brukner
    Witnessing causal nonseparability
    New J. Phys. 17, 102001 (2015) — Fast Track Communication; e-print arXiv:1506.03776
31. Martin Ringbauer, Ben Duffus, Cyril Branciard, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Andrew G. White, and Alessandro Fedrizzi
    Measurements on the reality of the wavefunction
    Nature Physics 11, 249–254 (2015); e-print arXiv:1412.6213
32. Romain Alléaume, Cyril Branciard, Jan Bouda, Thierry Debuisschert, Mehrdad Dianati, Nicolas Gisin, Mark Godfrey, Philippe Grangier, Thomas Langer, Norbert Lutkenhaus, Christian Monyk, Philippe Painchault, Momtchil Peev, Andreas Poppe, Thomas Pornin, John Rarity, Renato Renner, Gregoire Ribordy, Michel Riguidel, Louis Salvail, Andrew Shields, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger
    Using quantum key distribution for cryptographic purposes: A survey
    Theoretical Computer Science 560, 62-81 (2014); e-print arXiv:quant-ph/0701168
33. Cyril Branciard
    How ψ-Epistemic Models Fail at Explaining the Indistinguishability of Quantum States
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 020409 (2014); e-print arXiv:1407.3005
34. Joshua A. Slater, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, and Wolfgang Tittel
    Device-dependent and device-independent quantum key distribution without a shared reference frame
    New J. Phys. 16, 043002 (2014); e-print arXiv:1311.3343
35. Cyril Branciard
    Deriving tight error-trade-off relations for approximate joint measurements of incompatible quantum observables
    Phys. Rev. A 89, 022124 (2014); e-print arXiv:1312.1857
36. Martin Ringbauer, Devon N. Biggerstaff, Matthew A. Broome, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Cyril Branciard, and Andrew G. White
    Experimental Joint Quantum Measurements with Minimum Uncertainty
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 020401 (2014) — Editors’ Suggestion; e-print arXiv:1308.5688
37. Cyril Branciard
    Bell’s local causality, Leggett’s crypto-nonlocality, and quantum separability are genuinely different concepts
    Phys. Rev. A 88, 042113 (2013); e-print arXiv:1305.4671
38. Denis Rosset, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Yeong-Cherng Liang
    Entangled states cannot be classically simulated in generalized Bell experiments with quantum inputs
    New J. Phys. 15, 053025 (2013); e-print arXiv:1211.3560
39. Cyril Branciard
    Error-tradeoff and error-disturbance relations for incompatible quantum measurements
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 6742-6747 (2013); e-print arXiv:1304.2071
40. Cyril Branciard, Denis Rosset, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Nicolas Gisin
    Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Witnesses for All Entangled Quantum States
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 060405 (2013) — Editors’ Suggestion; e-print arXiv:1210.8037
41. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, Harry Buhrman, Richard Cleve, Nicolas Gisin, Samuel Portmann, Denis Rosset, and Mario Szegedy
    Classical Simulation of Entanglement Swapping with Bounded Communication
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 100401 (2012); e-print arXiv:1203.0445
42. Adam J. Bennet, David A. Evans, Dylan J. Saunders, Cyril Branciard, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde
    Arbitrarily Loss-Tolerant Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Allowing a Demonstration over 1 km of Optical Fiber with No Detection Loophole
    Phys. Rev. X 2, 031003 (2012); e-print arXiv:1111.0739
43. Samuel Portmann, Cyril Branciard, and Nicolas Gisin
    Local content of all pure two-qubit states
    Phys. Rev. A 86, 012104 (2012); e-print arXiv:1204.2982
44. Peter Shadbolt, Tamás Vértesi, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, and Jeremy L. O’Brien
    Guaranteed violation of a Bell inequality without aligned reference frames or calibrated devices
    Scientific Reports 2, 470 (2012); e-print arXiv:1111.1853
45. Cyril Branciard, Denis Rosset, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefano Pironio
    Bilocal versus nonbilocal correlations in entanglement-swapping experiments
    Phys. Rev. A 85, 032119 (2012); e-print arXiv:1112.4502
46. Jean-Daniel Bancal, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, and Yeong-Cherng Liang
    A framework for the study of symmetric full-correlation Bell-like inequalities
    J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45, 125301 (2012); e-print arXiv:1201.2055
47. Devin H. Smith, Geoff Gillett, Marcelo P. de Almeida, Cyril Branciard, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Till J. Weinhold, Adriana Lita, Brice Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Howard M. Wiseman, Sae Woo Nam, and Andrew G. White
    Conclusive quantum steering with superconducting transition-edge sensors
    Nature Communications 3, 625 (2012); e-print arXiv:1111.0829
48. Cyril Branciard, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Stephen P. Walborn, Valerio Scarani, and Howard M. Wiseman
    One-sided device-independent quantum key distribution: Security, feasibility, and the connection with steering
    Phys. Rev. A 85, 010301(R) (2012); e-print arXiv:1109.1435
49. Cyril Branciard and Nicolas Gisin
    Quantifying the Nonlocality of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Quantum Correlations by a Bounded Communication Simulation Protocol
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 020401 (2011); e-print arXiv:1102.0330
50. Cyril Branciard
    Detection loophole in Bell experiments: How postselection modifies the requirements to observe nonlocality
    Phys. Rev. A 83, 032123 (2011); e-print arXiv:1010.1178
51. Markus Jakobi, Christoph Simon, Nicolas Gisin, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Cyril Branciard, Nino Walenta, and Hugo Zbinden
    Practical private database queries based on a quantum-key-distribution protocol
    Phys. Rev. A 83, 022301 (2011); e-print arXiv:1002.4360
52. Cyril Branciard, Huangjun Zhu, Lin Chen, and Valerio Scarani
    Evaluation of two different entanglement measures on a bound entangled state
    Phys. Rev. A 82, 012327 (2010); e-print arXiv:1006.1152
53. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefano Pironio
    Characterizing the Nonlocal Correlations Created via Entanglement Swapping
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170401 (2010); e-print arXiv:0911.1314
54. Jean-Daniel Bancal, Cyril Branciard, and Nicolas Gisin
    Simulation of Equatorial von Neumann Measurements on GHZ States Using Nonlocal Resources
    Advances in Mathematical Physics 2010, 293245 (2010); e-print arXiv:0908.2640
55. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Valerio Scarani
    Local content of bipartite qubit correlations
    Phys. Rev. A 81, 022103 (2010); e-print arXiv:0909.3839
56. Pavel Sekatski, Nicolas Brunner, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Christoph Simon
    Towards Quantum Experiments with Human Eyes as Detectors Based on Cloning via Stimulated Emission
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113601 (2009) — Editors’ Suggestion; e-print arXiv:0902.2896
57. Jean-Daniel Bancal, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefano Pironio
    Quantifying Multipartite Nonlocality
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090503 (2009); e-print arXiv:0903.2715
58. Jean-Daniel Bancal, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Sandu Popescu, and Christoph Simon
    Testing a Bell inequality in multipair scenarios
    Phys. Rev. A 78, 062110 (2008); e-print arXiv:0810.0942
59. Nicolas Brunner, Cyril Branciard, and Nicolas Gisin
    Possible entanglement detection with the naked eye
    Phys. Rev. A 78, 052110 (2008); e-print arXiv:0802.0472
60. Daniel Salart, Augustin Baas, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Hugo Zbinden
    Testing the speed of ‘spooky action at a distance’
    Nature 454, 861–864 (2008); e-print arXiv:0808.3316
61. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Christian Kurtsiefer, Antia Lamas-Linares, Alexander Ling, and Valerio Scarani
    Testing quantum correlations versus single-particle properties within Leggett’s model and beyond
    Nature Physics 4, 681–685 (2008); e-print arXiv:0801.2241
62. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Valerio Scarani
    Upper bounds for the security of two distributed-phase reference protocols of quantum cryptography
    New J. Phys. 10, 013031 (2008); e-print arXiv:0710.4884
63. Cyril Branciard, Alexander Ling, Nicolas Gisin, Christian Kurtsiefer, Antia Lamas-Linares, and Valerio Scarani
    Experimental Falsification of Leggett’s Nonlocal Variable Model
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210407 (2007) — Editors’ Suggestion; e-print arXiv:0708.0584
64. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, Norbert Lütkenhaus, and Valerio Scarani
    Zero-error attacks and detection statistics in the coherent one-way protocol for quantum cryptography
    Quant. Inf. Comput. 7, 639-664 (2007); e-print arXiv:quant-ph/0609090
65. Barbara Kraus, Cyril Branciard, and Renato Renner
    Security of quantum-key-distribution protocols using two-way classical communication or weak coherent pulses
    Phys. Rev. A 75, 012316 (2007); e-print arXiv:quant-ph/0610151
66. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, Barbara Kraus, and Valerio Scarani
    Security of two quantum cryptography protocols using the same four qubit states
    Phys. Rev. A 72, 032301 (2005); e-print arXiv:quant-ph/0505035
67. B. C. Daly, N. C. R. Holme, T. Buma, C. Branciard, T. B. Norris, D. M. Tennant, J. A. Taylor, J. E. Bower, and S. Pau
    Imaging nanostructures with coherent phonon pulses
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 5180 (2004)

PhD thesis:

Practical and Fundamental issues on Quantum Correlations

PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Nicolas Gisin, University of Geneva, 2009

Contact

Department: PLUM

Team: Nanophysics and Semiconductors (NPSC)

Status: Personnel Chercheur

Structure: CNRS

Position: Permanent

Email: cyril.branciard@neel.cnrs.fr

Phone: 04 56 38 70 60

Office: C3-212