Amolak Ratan Kalra — Quantum Information

Hi! I am Amolak. I am interested in studying the connections between quantum information, mathematics, and physics. Specific topics I like are quantum circuits, error correcting codes, quantum non-locality and number theory.

Amolak Ratan Kalra

Background

Academic timeline

Postdoctoral Researcher · QuTech, TU Delft

September 2026–present · Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics

Host: Prof. Barbara Terhal

PhD in Computer Science (Quantum Information) · University of Waterloo

2022–2026 · Thesis: Circuits, Codes and Capacity

Advisor: Prof. Michele Mosca

MSc in Computer Science · University of Calgary

2019–2022 · Thesis: The Category of Kirchhoff Relations

Advisor: Prof. Robin Cockett

B.Tech in Electrical Engineering · Dayalbagh Educational Institute

2015–2019 · specialization in Computer Science

Publications

2026

Stabilizer Ranks, Barnes–Wall Lattices and Magic Monotones

Amolak Ratan Kalra, Pulkit Sinha

Quantum 10, 2179 (2026)

2026

Enhanced Quantum Capacity Thresholds from Symmetry

Avantika Agarwal, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Sungjai Lee, Debbie Leung, Luke Schaeffer, Pulkit Sinha, Graeme Smith

arXiv:2605.09138

arXiv

2026

On Error Thresholds for Pauli Channels: Some Answers with Many More Questions

Avantika Agarwal, Alan Bu, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Debbie Leung, Luke Schaeffer, Graeme Smith

arXiv:2603.04357

arXiv

2026

Buildings for Synthesis with Clifford+R

Mark Deaconu, Nihar Gargava, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Michele Mosca, Jon Yard

Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2026); arXiv:2510.11526

arXiv

2025

Synthesis and Arithmetic of Single-Qutrit Circuits

Amolak Ratan Kalra, Michele Mosca, Dinesh Valluri

Quantum 9, 1647 (2025)

2025

Invariant Theory, Magic State Distillation, and Bounds on Classical Codes

Amolak Ratan Kalra, Shiroman Prakash

arXiv:2501.10163

arXiv

2024

Multi-Qutrit Exact Synthesis

Amolak Ratan Kalra, Manimugdha Saikia, Dinesh Valluri, Sam Winnick, Jon Yard

arXiv:2405.08147

arXiv

2023

Normalizing Resistor Networks

Robin Cockett, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

EPTCS 397, 70–83 (ACT 2023)

2022

Categories of Kirchhoff Relations

Robin Cockett, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Shiroman Prakash

arXiv:2205.05870 · presented at Applied Category Theory 2022

arXiv

2021

A Normal Form for Single-Qudit Clifford+T Operators

Shiroman Prakash, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Akalank Jain

Quantum Information Processing 20, 341 (2021)

2019

Demonstration of the No-Hiding Theorem on the 5-Qubit IBM Quantum Computer in a Category-Theoretic Framework

Amolak Ratan Kalra, Navya Gupta, Bikash K. Behera, Shiroman Prakash, Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum Information Processing 18, 170 (2019)