Nicolas Cerf

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Continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocols over noisy channels,
R. Garcia-Patron and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 130501.
PDF file, arXiv:0806.3954 [quant-ph]

Tests of multimode quantum nonlocality with homodyne measurements,
A. Acin, N. J. Cerf, A. Ferraro, and J. Niset,
Phys. Rev. A 79 (2009) 012112.
PDF file, arXiv:0808.2373 [quant-ph]

No-go theorem for Gaussian quantum error correction,
J. Niset, J. Fiurasek, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 120501.
PDF file, arXiv:0811.3128 [quant-ph]

Extending Hudson's theorem to mixed quantum states,
A. Mandilara, E. Karpov, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 79 (2009) 062302.
PDF file, arXiv:0808.2501 [quant-ph]

Unconditional security of continuous-variable quantum key distribution,
A. Leverrier, E. Karpov, P. Grangier, and N. J. Cerf,
arXiv:0809.2252 [quant-ph]

Quantum de Finetti theorem in phase-space representation,
A. Leverrier and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 80 (2009) 010102(R).
PDF file, arXiv:0904.4862 [quant-ph]

Strong no-go theorem for Gaussian quantum bit commitment,
L. Magnin, F. Magniez, A. Leverrier, and N. J. Cerf,
arXiv:0905.3419 [quant-ph]

Capacity of a bosonic memory channel with Gauss-Markov noise,
J. Schäfer, D. Daems, E. Karpov, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 80 (2009) 062313.
PDF file, arXiv:0907.0982 [quant-ph]

Exploring scalar quantum walks on Cayley graphs,
O. Lopez Acevedo, J. Roland, and N. J. Cerf,
Quant. Inform. Comp. 8 (2008) 68-81.
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0609234

Experimentally feasible quantum erasure-correcting code for continuous variables ,
J. Niset, U.L. Andersen, and N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 130503.
PDF file, arXiv:0710.4858 [quant-ph]

Quantum cloning a pair of orthogonally polarized photons with linear optics
J. Fiurasek and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 77 (2008) 052308.
PDF file, arXiv:0711.4212 [quant-ph]

Quantum search by parallel eigenvalue adiabatic passage ,
D. Daems, S. Guérin, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 78 (2008) 042322.
PDF file, arXiv:0810.0148 [quant-ph]

The security of practical quantum key distribution [Review article]
V. Scarani, H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci, N. J. Cerf, M. Dusek, N. Lutkenhaus, and M. Peev,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1301 (2009)
PDF File, arXiv:0802.4155 [quant-ph]

From quantum cloning to quantum key distribution with continuous variables: a review (Invited),
N. J. Cerf and P. Grangier,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24 (2007) 324-334.
(special issue on “Optical Quantum Information Science”)
PDF file

Superiority of entangled measurements over all local strategies for the estimation of product coherent states,
J. Niset, A. Acin, U. L. Andersen, N. J. Cerf, R. Garcia-Patron, M. Navascues, and M. Sabuncu,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 260404 (2007)
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0608215

Optimal multicopy asymmetric Gaussian cloning of coherent states,
J. Fiurasek and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 75 (2007) 052335.
PDF File, arXiv quant-ph/0610205

Experimental implementation of non-Gaussian attacks on a continuous-variable quantum key distribution system,
J. Lodewyck, T. Debuisschert, R. Garcia-Patron, R. Tualle-Brouri, N. J. Cerf, and P. Grangier,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 030503.
PDF File, arXiv quant-ph/0701238

Tight bounds on the concurrence of quantum superpositions,
J. Niset and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 042328.
PDF File, arXiv:0705.4650 [quant-ph]

Quantum key distribution over 25 km with an all-fiber continuous-variable system ,
J. Lodewyck, M. Bloch, R. Garcia-Patron, S. Fossier, E. Karpov, E. Diamanti, T. Debuisschert, N. J. Cerf, R. Tualle-Brouri, S. W. McLaughlin, and P. Grangier,
Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 042305
PDF File, arXiv:0706.4255 [quant-ph]

Tight bounds on the eavesdropping of a continuous-variable quantum cryptographic protocol with no basis switching,
J. Sudjana, L. Magnin, R. Garcia-Patron, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 052301.
PDF File, arXiv:0706.4283 [quant-ph]

Three topics in quantum communication: error filtration, quantum string flipping, photon pair generation in periodically poled fibers ,
S. Massar, K. Phan Huy, E. Brainis, A.-T. Nguyen, M. Haelterman, Ph. Emplit, N.J. Cerf, L.-Ph. Lamoureux, D. Amans, C. Corbari, A. Canagasabey, M. Ibsen, P. G. Kazansky, A. Fotiadi, P. Mégret, and O. Deparis,
in: Quantum Communication and Security, edited by M. Zukowski, S. Kilin, and J. Kowalik, (IOS Press, 2007), pp.3-10.

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution,
F. Grosshans, A. Acin, and N. J. Cerf,
in: Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light, edited by N.J. Cerf, G. Leuchs, and E.S. Polzik, (Imperial College Press, London, 2007), pp. 63-83.
PDF file

Loophole-free test of quantum nonlocality with continuous variables of light,
R. Garcia-Patron, J. Fiurasek, and N. J. Cerf,
in: Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light, edited by N.J. Cerf, G. Leuchs, and E.S. Polzik, (Imperial College Press, London, 2007), pp. 121-139.
PDF file

Reduced randomness in quantum cryptography with sequences of qubits encoded in the same basis,
L.-P. Lamoureux, H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci, N. J. Cerf, N. Gisin, and C. Macchiavello,
Phys. Rev. A 73 (2006) 032304.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0507058

Optical quantum cloning [Review article]
N. J. Cerf and J. Fiurasek,
in: Progress in Optics, 49, edited by E. Wolf, (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2006), pp. 455-545.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0512172

Universal optical amplification without nonlinearity,
V. Josse, M. Sabuncu, N. J. Cerf, G. Leuchs, and U. L. Andersen,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 163602.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0603119

Entanglement enhanced classical capacity of quantum communication channels with correlated noise in arbitrary dimensions,
E. Karpov, D. Daems, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 74 (2006) 032320.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0603286

Multipartite nonlocality without entanglement in many dimensions,
J. Niset and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 74 (2006) 052103.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0606227

Unconditional optimality of Gaussian attacks against continuous-variable quantum key distribution,
R. Garcia-Patron and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 190503.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0608032

Entanglement may enhance the channel capacity in arbitrary dimensions,
E. Karpov, D. Daems, and N. J. Cerf,
Open Sys. & Information Dyn. 13 (2006) 363-372.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0612219

Asymmetric phase-covariant d-dimensional cloning ,
L.-Ph. Lamoureux and N. J. Cerf,
Quant. Inform. Comp. 5 (2005) 32-39.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0410054

Loophole-free test of quantum non-locality using high-efficiency homodyne detectors,
R. Garcia-Patron, J. Fiurasek and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 71 (2005) 022105.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0407181

Noise resistance of adiabatic quantum computation using random matrix theory,
J. Roland and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 71 (2005) 032330.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0409127

Experimental error filtration for quantum communication over highly noisy channels,
L.-Ph. Lamoureux, E. Brainis, N. J. Cerf, Ph. Emplit, M. Haelterman, and S. Massar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 230501.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0407031

Simulating maximal quantum entanglement without communication,
N. J. Cerf, N. Gisin, S. Massar, and S. Popescu,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 220403.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0410027

Secure coherent-state quantum key distribution protocols with efficient reconciliation,
G. Van Assche, S. Iblisdir, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 71 (2005) 052304.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0410031, all documents

Non-Gaussian cloning of quantum coherent states is optimal,
N. J. Cerf, O. Krueger, P. Navez, R. F. Werner, and M. M. Wolf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 070501.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0410058

Conditional generation of arbitrary single-mode quantum states of light by repeated photon subtractions,
J. Fiurasek, R. Garcia-Patron, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 033822.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0503111

Cloning quantum entanglement in arbitrary dimensions,
E. Karpov, P. Navez, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 042314.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0503148

Separating the classical and quantum information via quantum cloning,
M. Ricci, F. Sciarrino, N. J. Cerf, R. Filip, J. Fiurasek, and F. De Martini,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 090504.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0508055

Hamiltonian logic gates: Computing inside a molecule,
C. Joachim, I. Duchemin, J. Fiurasek, and N. J. Cerf,
Int. J. Nanoscience 4 (2005) 107-118.
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Multipartite asymmetric quantum cloning,
S. Iblisdir, A. Acin, N. J. Cerf, R. Filip, J. Fiurasek, and N. Gisin,
Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 042328.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0411179

Quantum entanglement enhances the capacity of bosonic channels with memory,
N. J. Cerf, J. Clavareau, C. Macchiavello, and J. Roland,
Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 042330.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0412089

Extremal quantum cloning machines,
G. Chiribella, G. M. D'Ariano, P. Perinotti, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 042336.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0507130

Economical quantum cloning in any dimension,
T. Durt, J. Fiurasek, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 72 (2005) 052322.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0412201

Highly asymmetric quantum cloning in arbitrary dimension,
J. Fiurasek, R. Filip, and N. J. Cerf,
Quant. Inform. Comp. 5 (2005) 583-592.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0505212

Information transmission via entangled quantum states in Gaussian channels with memory,
N. J. Cerf, J. Clavareau, J. Roland, and C. Macchiavello,
Proc. of Workshop on Quantum entanglement in physical and information sciences, Pisa, December 14-18, 2004
arXiv quant-ph/0508197

Reconciliation of a quantum-distributed Gaussian key,
G. Van Assche, J. Cardinal, and N. J. Cerf,
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 50 (2004) 394-400.
all documents, PDF file, arXiv cs.CR/0107030

Continuous-variable quantum cryptography is secure against non-gaussian attacks,
F. Grosshans and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 047905.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0311006

Cloning the entanglement of a pair of quantum bits,
L.-Ph. Lamoureux, P. Navez, J. Fiurasek, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 69 (2004) 040301(R).
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0302173

Experimental purification of single qubits,
M. Ricci, F. De Martini, N. J. Cerf, R. Filip, J. Fiurasek, and C. Macchiavello,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 170501.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0403118

Security of quantum key distribution with coherent states and homodyne detection,
S. Iblisdir, G. Van Assche, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 170502.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0312018

How to measure squeezing and entanglement of Gaussian states without homodyning,
J. Fiurasek and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 063601.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0311119

Intramolecular Hamiltonian logic gates,
J. Fiurasek, N. J. Cerf, I. Duchemin, and C. Joachim,
Physica E 24 (2004) 161-172.
PDF file

Proposal for a loophole-free Bell test using homodyne detection,
R. Garcia-Patron, J. Fiurasek, N. J. Cerf, J. Wenger, R. Tualle-Brouri, and Ph. Grangier,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 130409.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0403191

Pulsed squeezed vacuum measurements without homodyning,
J. Wenger, J. Fiurasek, R. Tualle-Brouri, N. J. Cerf, and Ph. Grangier,
Phys. Rev. A 70 (2004) 053812.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0403234

Quantum cloning of a coherent light state into an atomic quantum memory,
J. Fiurasek, N. J. Cerf, and E. S. Polzik,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 180501.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0404054

Side-information coding with turbo codes and its application to quantum key distribution,
K.-C. Nguyen, G. Van Assche, and N. J. Cerf,
Proc. of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), (Parma, Italy, October 2004).
arXiv cs.IT/0406001

Proposal for loophole-free Bell test using homodyne detection,
R. Garcia-Patron, J. Fiurasek, and N. J. Cerf,
Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing (QCMC'04), (Glasgow, July 24-29, 2004);
AIP Conf. Proc. 734 (2004) 265.
PDF file

Quantum key distribution using Gaussian-modulated coherent states,
F. Grosshans, G. Van Assche, J. Wenger, R. Brouri, N.J. Cerf, and P. Grangier,
Nature 421 (2003) 238-241.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0312016
News and Views (by M. Hillery)
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Security of quantum key distribution with entangled qutrits,
T. Durt, N.J. Cerf, N. Gisin, and M. Zukowski,
Phys. Rev. A 67 (2003), 012311.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0207057

Quantum cloning of orthogonal qubits,
J. Fiurasek, S. Iblisdir, S. Massar, and N.J. Cerf,
Fortschr. Phys. 51 (2003) 117-121.
PDF file

Fiber-optics implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa and Bernstein-Vazirani quantum algorithms with three qubits,
E. Brainis, L.-Ph. Lamoureux, N. J. Cerf, Ph. Emplit, M. Haelterman, and S. Massar,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 157902.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0212142

Cloning a real d-dimensional quantum state on the edge of the no-signaling condition,
P. Navez and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 032313.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0302172

Quantum-circuit model of Hamiltonian search algorithms,
J. Roland and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 062311.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0302138

Adiabatic quantum search algorithm for structured problems,
J. Roland and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 062312.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0304039

Conditional generation of arbitrary multimode entangled states of light with linear optics ,
J. Fiurasek, S. Massar, and N. J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 042325.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0304005

Virtual entanglement and reconciliation protocols for quantum cryptography with continuous variables,
F. Grosshans, N. J. Cerf, J. Wenger, R. Tualle-Brouri, and Ph. Grangier,
Quant. Inform. Comp. 3 (2003) 535-552.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0306141

Generation of large photon-number cat states using linear optics and quantum memory,
N. J. Cerf, J. Fiurasek, S. Iblisdir, and S. Massar,
in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, eds. J. H. Shapiro and O. Hirota (Rinton Press, Princeton, 2003), pp. 249-252.
(Conference QCMC'02, Boston, July 22-26, 2002.)
arXiv: quant-ph/0210059

Quantum cloning with continuous variables,
N.J. Cerf,
in: Quantum Information with Continuous Variables, eds. S.L. Braunstein and A.K. Pati (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 2003), pp. 277-293.
arXiv: quant-ph/0210061

Cloning and cryptography with quantum continuous variables,
N.J. Cerf, S. Iblisdir, and G. Van Assche,
Eur. Phys. J. D 18 (2002) 211-218 (special issue on “Quantum interference and cryptographic keys: novel physics and advancing technologies”. Proc. of the conference QUICK 2001, Corsica, April 7-13 2001).
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0107077

Linear optics and projective measurements alone suffice to create large-photon-number path entanglement,
H. Lee, P. Kok, N.J. Cerf, and J.P. Dowling,
Phys. Rev. A 65 (2002) 030101(R).
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0109080

Security of quantum key distribution using d-level systems,
N.J. Cerf, M. Bourennane, A. Karlsson, and N. Gisin,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 127902.
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0107130

Quantum search by local adiabatic evolution,
J. Roland and N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 65 (2002) 042308.
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0107015

Cloning a qutrit,
N.J. Cerf, T. Durt, and N. Gisin,
J. Mod. Opt. 49 (2002) 1355-1373.
(special issue on “Quantum Information: Theory, Experiment and Perspectives”. Proc. of the 2nd ESF QIT Conference, Gdansk, July 10-18, 2001).
PDF file, [http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110092|arXiv quant-ph/0110092]]

Quantum cloning of orthogonal qubits,
J. Fiurasek, S. Iblisdir, S. Massar, and N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 65 (2002) 040302(R).
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0110016

Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradoxes for many qudits,
N.J. Cerf, S. Massar, and S. Pironio,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 080402.
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0107031

Multipartite classical and quantum secrecy monotones,
N.J. Cerf, S. Massar, and S. Schneider,
Phys. Rev. A 66 (2002) 042309.
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0202103

Quantum key distribution using multilevel encoding: security analysis,
M. Bourennane, A. Karlsson, G. Bjork, N. Gisin, and N.J. Cerf,
J. Phys. A 35 (2002) 10065-10076.
PDF file, arXiv: quant-ph/0106049

Quantum distribution of Gaussian keys using squeezed states,
N.J. Cerf, M. Levy, and G.Van Assche,
Phys. Rev. A 63 (2001) 052311.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0008058

Classical simulation of quantum entanglement without local hidden variables,
S. Massar, D. Bacon, N.J. Cerf, and R. Cleve,
Phys. Rev. A 63 (2001) 052305.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0009088

Universal copying of coherent states: a Gaussian cloning machine,
N.J. Cerf and S. Iblisdir,
in: Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3, eds. P. Tombesi and O. Hirota (Kluwer Academic, New York, 2001), pp. 11-14.
(Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing, Capri, July 3-8, 2000)

Optimal cloning of coherent states with a linear amplifier and beam splitters,
S.L. Braunstein, N.J. Cerf, S. Iblisdir, P. van Loock, and S. Massar,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 4938-4941.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0012046

Phase conjugation of continuous quantum variables,
N.J. Cerf and S. Iblisdir,
Phys. Rev. A 64 (2001) 032307.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0012020

Quantum cloning machines with phase-conjugate input modes,
N.J. Cerf and S. Iblisdir,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 247903.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0102077

Optimality of the genetic code with respect to protein stability and amino-acid frequencies,
D. Gilis, S. Massar, N.J. Cerf, and M. Rooman,
Genome Biology 2 (2001) 0049.1-0049.12
PDF file, arXiv physics/0102044

Les promesses de l'information quantique,
N. Cerf and N. Gisin,
La Recherche 327 (January 2000) 46-53.

Physical complexity of symbolic sequences,
C. Adami and N.J. Cerf, Physica D 137 (2000), 62-69.
PDF file, arXiv adap-org/9605002

Nested quantum search and structured problems,
N.J. Cerf, L.K. Grover, and C.P. Williams,
Phys. Rev. A 61 (2000) 032303.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9806078

Asymmetric quantum cloning machines in any dimension,
N.J. Cerf,
J. Mod. Opt. 47 (2000), 187-209.
(special issue on Quantum Information)
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9805024

Classical teleportation of a quantum bit,
N.J. Cerf, N. Gisin, and S. Massar,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 2521-2524.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9906105

Generalized quantum search with parallelism,
R.M. Gingrich, C.P. Williams, and N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 61 (2000) 052313.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9904049

Pauli cloning of a quantum bit,
N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 4497-4500.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9803058

Nested quantum search and NP-hard problems,
N.J. Cerf, L.K. Grover, and C.P. Williams,
Appl. Algebr. Eng. Comm. 10 (2000) 311-338.
(special issue on quantum computing, Dagstuhl 1998)

Cloning of continuous quantum variables,
N.J. Cerf, A. Ipe, and X. Rottenberg,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1754-1757.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9909037

Optimal N-to-M cloning of conjugate quantum variables,
N.J. Cerf and S. Iblisdir,
Phys. Rev. A 62 (2000) 040301(R).
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/0005044

Quantum extension of conditional probability,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
Phys. Rev. A 60 (1999), 893-897.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9710001

Reduction criterion for separability,
N.J. Cerf, C. Adami, and R.M. Gingrich,
Phys. Rev. A 60 (1999), 898-909.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9710001

Information-theoretic aspects of quantum copying,
N.J. Cerf,
Lect. Notes Comput. Sc. 1509 (1999) 218-234.
(Proc. of 1st NASA Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication QCQC 98, Palm Springs, February 17-20, 1998; Springer Verlag).

Quantum computation with linear optics,
C. Adami and N.J. Cerf,
Lect.Notes Comput. Sc. 1509 (1999) 391-401.
(Proc. of 1st NASA Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication QCQC 98, Palm Springs, February 17-20, 1998; Springer Verlag).
arXiv quant-ph/9806048

What information theory can tell us about quantum reality,
C. Adami and N.J. Cerf,
Lect. Notes Comput. Sc. 1509 (1999) 258-268.
(Proc. of 1st NASA Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication QCQC 98, Palm Springs, February 17-20, 1998; Springer Verlag).
arXiv quant-ph/9806047

Prolegomena to a non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics,
C. Adami and N.J. Cerf,
Chaos Solitons Fract. 10 (1999) 1637-1650.
(special issue on Quantum Computation).
arXiv quant-ph/9904006

Information theory of quantum entanglement and measurement,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
Physica D 120 (1998), 62-81.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Physics and Computation (PhysComp'96, Boston, 22 - 24 November 1996), edited by Tommaso Toffoli and Michael Biafore.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9605039

Monte Carlo simulation of quantum computation,
N.J. Cerf and S.E. Koonin,
Math. and Comput. in Simulat. 47 (1998), 143-152.
(Proceedings of the IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) Conference on Monte Carlo Methods, Brussels, April 1-3, 1997).
arXiv quant-ph/9703050

Optical simulation of quantum logic,
N.J. Cerf, C. Adami, and P.G. Kwiat,
Phys. Rev. A 57 (1998), R1477-R1480.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9706022

Entropic bounds on coding for noisy quantum channels,
N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 57 (1998), 3330-3347.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9707023

Asymmetric quantum cloning machines,
N.J. Cerf,
Acta Phys. Slovaca 48 (1998), 115-132.
(special issue on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information)
PDF file

The random link approximation for the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem,
N.J. Cerf, J. Boutet de Monvel, O. Bohigas, O.C. Martin, and A.G. Percus,
J. Phys. I (France) 7 (1997) 117-136.
arXiv/cond-mat/9607080

Negative entropy in quantum information theory,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
in: New Developments on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics, Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 81, eds. M. Ferrero and A. van der Merwe, (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1997), 77-84.
(Proc. of the 2nd Int. Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics, Oviedo 96)
arXiv quant-ph/9610005

Negative entropy and information in quantum mechanics,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 5194-5197.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9512022

Entropic Bell inequalities,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
Phys. Rev. A 55 (1997) 3371-3374.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9608047

Information-theoretic interpretation of quantum error-correcting codes,
N.J. Cerf and R. Cleve,
Phys. Rev. A 56 (1997), 1721-1732.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9702031

von Neumann capacity of noisy quantum channels,
C. Adami and N.J. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. A 56 (1997), 3470-3483.
PDF file, arXiv quant-ph/9609024

Single- and multi-event canonical r-process : astrophysics and nuclear physics considerations,
V. Bouquelle, N. Cerf, M. Arnould, T. Tachibana, and S. Goriely,
Astron. Astrophys. 305 (1996) 1005-1018.

Monte Carlo computation of pair correlations in excited nuclei,
N.J. Cerf, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 (1996) 2420-2423.
arXiv nucl-th/9512027

Quantum information theory of entanglement,
N. Cerf and C. Adami,
in: Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Physics and Computation, eds. T. Toffoli et al., (New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, 1996), pp. 65-71.

Quantum mechanics of measurement,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
(unpublished).
arXiv quant-ph/9605002

Accessible information in quantum measurement,
N.J. Cerf and C. Adami,
(unpublished).
arXiv quant-ph/9611032

Méthodes de Monte Carlo: application à l'étude de systèmes quantiques,
N. Cerf,
“Thèse d'agrégation de l'enseignement supérieur”, ULB, March 1995.

Finite population-size effects in projection Monte Carlo methods,
N. Cerf and O. Martin,
Phys. Rev. E 51 (1995) 3679-3693.

Projection Monte Carlo methods: an algorithmic analysis,
N.J. Cerf and O.C. Martin,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 6 (1995) 693-723.

Realistic level density calculation for heavy nuclei,
N. Cerf, B. Pichon, M. Rayet, and M. Arnould,
in: Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, ed. J.K. Dickens, (American Nuclear Society, 1995), pp. 479-481.

Combinatorial nuclear level density by a Monte Carlo method,
N. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. C 49 (1994) 852-866.
arXiv nucl-th/9309016

Mass distribution of binary stars using an iterative inversion technique,
N. Cerf and H.M.J. Boffin,
Inverse Probl. 10 (1994) 533-546.

Realistic microscopic level densities for spherical nuclei,
N. Cerf,
Phys. Rev. C 50 (1994) 836-844.

Combinatorial nuclear level density by a Monte Carlo method,
N. Cerf,
in: Proc. of the Int. Conf. on the Future of Nuclear Spectroscopy, eds. W. Gelletly et al., (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Athens, 1994), pp. 311-316.

Densité de niveaux nucléaires, corrélations d'appariement, et leur rôle en astrophysique,
N. Cerf,
Ph.D. Thesis, ULB, February 1993. Parity dependence of the nuclear level density,
N. Cerf,
Nucl. Phys. A 554 (1993) 85-106.

Statistical analysis of a sample of spectroscopic binaries containing late-type giants,
H.M.J. Boffin, N. Cerf and G. Paulus,
Astron. Astrophys. 271 (1993) 125-138.

Pairing Hamiltonian by a path integral Monte Carlo procedure,
N. Cerf and O. Martin,
Phys. Rev. C 47 (1993) 2610-2615.

Nuclear pairing correlations by a quantum Monte Carlo method,
N. Cerf,
Nucl. Phys. A 564 (1993) 383-412.

Combinatorial nuclear level density for the determination of astrophysical reaction rates,
N. Cerf, M. Rayet, and M. Arnould,
in: Proc. of the 8th Int. Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics, ed. J. Kern, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), pp. 759-761.

Nuclear level density by a Monte Carlo approach,
N. Cerf,
in: Proc. of 1992 International Nuclear Physics Conference, eds. P. Kienle et al., Wiesbaden, Germany, 1992.

Statistical analysis of single-lined red giant spectroscopic binaries,
H.M.J. Boffin, G. Paulus and N. Cerf,
in: Binaries as Tracers of Stellar Formation, eds. A. Duquennoy and M. Mayor, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992), pp. 26-37.

On the application of a Monte Carlo method to the nuclear level density problem,
N. Cerf,
Phys. Lett. B 268 (1991) 317-322.