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Reaching Quantum Supremacy with a Boson Sampling Experiment

Quantum Physics 2015-12-01 v2 Chemical Physics

Abstract

Boson Sampling represents a promising witness of the supremacy of quantum systems as a resource for the solution of computational problems. The classical hardness of Boson Sampling has been related to the so called Permanent-of-Gaussians Conjecture and has been extended to some generalizations such as scattershot Boson Sampling, approximate and lossy sampling under some reasonable constraints. However, it is still unclear how demanding these bounds are for a quantum experimental sampler. Starting from a state of the art analysis and focusing on the foreseeable practical conditions needed to reach quantum supremacy, we look at different techniques and present a more general and effective solution. We apply our approach to both the experimental suggestions presented to date and we eventually find in both cases a new threshold that is less error sensitive and experimentally more feasible.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08161,
  title  = {Reaching Quantum Supremacy with a Boson Sampling Experiment},
  author = {Ludovico Latmiral},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08161},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to crucial errors in equations 4 and B2

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