This work proposes a digital quantum simulation protocol for the linear scattering process of bosons, which provides a simple extension to partially distinguishable boson cases. Our protocol is achieved by combining the boson-fermion correspondence relation and fermion to qubit encoding protocols. As a proof of concept, we designed quantum circuits for generating the Hong-Ou-Mandel dip by varying particle distinguishability. The circuits were verified with the classical and quantum simulations using the IBM Quantum and IonQ cloud services.
@article{arxiv.2209.00207,
title = {Quantum circuit simulation of linear optics using fermion to qubit encoding},
author = {Seungbeom Chin and Jaehee Kim and Joonsuk Huh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00207},
year = {2023}
}