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Conditions for an experimental Boson-sampling computer to disprove the Extended Church-Turing thesis

Quantum Physics 2014-05-22 v6 Statistical Mechanics Optics

Abstract

We give a set of sufficient conditions on the experimental Boson-Sampling computer to satisfy Theorem 1.3 of Aaronson & Arkhipov (Theory of Computing \textbf{9}, 143 (2013)) stating a computational problem whose simulation on a classical computer would collapse the polynomial hierarchy of the computational complexity to the third level. This implies that such an experimental device is in conflict with the Extended Church-Turing thesis. In practical terms, we give a set of sufficient conditions for the scalability of the experimental Boson-Sampling computer beyond the power of the classical computers. The derived conditions can be also used for devising efficient verification tests of the Boson-Sampling computer.

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@article{arxiv.1403.4459,
  title  = {Conditions for an experimental Boson-sampling computer to disprove the Extended Church-Turing thesis},
  author = {V. S. Shchesnovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4459},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Fully revised version. 5 pages (in the two-column format) of the main text and 3 pages of appendices; no figures; minor correction in the last sentence of the Appendix