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Time-resolved boson sampling with photons of different colors

Quantum Physics 2018-09-05 v1 Optics

Abstract

Interference of multiple photons via a linear-optical network has profound applications for quantum foundation, quantum metrology and quantum computation. Particularly, a boson sampling experiment with a moderate number of photons becomes intractable even for the most powerful classical computers, and will lead to "quantum supremacy". Scaling up from small-scale experiments requires highly indistinguishable single photons, which may be prohibited for many physical systems. Here we experimentally demonstrate a time-resolved version of boson sampling by using photons not overlapping in their frequency spectra from three atomic-ensemble quantum memories. Time-resolved measurement enables us to observe nonclassical multiphoton correlation landscapes. An average fidelity over several interferometer configurations is measured to be 0.936(13), which is mainly limited by high-order events. Symmetries in the landscapes are identified to reflect symmetries of the optical network. Our work thus provides a route towards quantum supremacy with distinguishable photons.

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@article{arxiv.1803.04696,
  title  = {Time-resolved boson sampling with photons of different colors},
  author = {Xu-Jie Wang and Bo Jing and Peng-Fei Sun and Chao-Wei Yang and Yong Yu and Vincenzo Tamma and Xiao-Hui Bao and Jian-Wei Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.04696},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table