About Me
Hello! Bonjour! नमस्ते! કેમ ચો? My name is Dharmik Patel. I am currently a graduate student in physics at the University of Ottawa. I was previously at the University of Toronto, from where I graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics in 2024. I work in theoretical quantum optics and information, with a focus on photonic quantum computing. I did my undergraduate work in this area under the supervision of Prof. John Sipe and Dr. Colin Vendromin, and my current advisor is Prof. Khabat Heshami at the NRC.
I was born in Vadodara (India) and lived in Nanjing (China) and Pattaya (Thailand) before I moved back home to Ahmedabad.
📄 You can view my full CV here: Curriculum Vitae
Research
My research interests span across quantum physics, from foundations to information processing. I am especially interested in using ideas from mathematics to explore new perspectives in quantum optics and information. In previous years, I have worked on projects involving analogue black hole simulation, analysing spectroscopy data to characterise ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and tracing the development of the cosmic censorship conjectures.
Here are some things I am currently working on:
- Generating discretely symmetric Wigner-negative non-Gaussian states using Gaussian resources (with J.E. Sipe and Colin Vendromin).
- Determining the global phase for unitary operators associated with purely quadratic Hamiltonians (with J.E. Sipe and Colin Vendromin).
- Simulating nonlinear SFWM Hamiltonians of $\chi^{(3)}$ processes (with J.E. Sipe and Colin Vendromin).
Notes, Posters, and Slides
Over the years, I've started the writing of notes on various things. I say started because I am absolutely terrible about finishing them. Here are the rare few that I have managed to make somewhat complete, and beware -- there are probably typos galore. If you find any of these helpful or somewhat interesting, please shoot me a message. It's always nice to know something you created has found some use to someone else!
My undergraduate thesis: A unique representation for the unitary time evolution operator of an N-mode Hamiltonian. (Oral examination presentation slides).
My final project for APM426 (General Relativity) at UofT: A review of the cosmic censorship conjectures.
Notes on constructing discretized Hamiltonians for SFWM processes (still under construction!): Building a dual pump SFWM interaction.
Notes on the Louisell-Heffner transformation (still under construction!): The Louisell-Heffner Method.
Notes on quantum error correction (still under construction!): Quantum Error Correction.
Talk given at the uOttawa/NRC PQuIP group seminar: Nonlinear Generation of Gaussian States.
Art
Miscellaneous
Contact
Email me at "dpate019" at the domain "uottawa.ca".