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Optical computing harnesses the speed of light to perform vector-matrix operations efficiently. It leverages interference, a cornerstone of quantum computing algorithms, to enable parallel computations. In this work, we interweave quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Mwezi Koni , Hadrian Bezuidenhout , Isaac Nape

Enhancing optical nonlinearities so that they become appreciable on the single photon level and lead to nonclassical light fields has been a central objective in quantum optics for many years. After this has been achieved in individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Michael J. Hartmann

We propose a novel architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computing that incorporates strong single-photon nonlinearities into a photonic GHZ-measurement-based architecture. The nonlinearities substantially reduce resource overheads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Maike Ostmann , Joshua Nunn , Alex E. Jones

Boson sampling is a simple model for non-universal linear optics quantum computing using far fewer physical resources than universal schemes. An input state comprising vacuum and single photon states is fed through a Haar-random linear…

This paper presents a complete algorithmic study of the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem under the classical computation and quantum computation theories. The paper depicts deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, propositions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Carlos Barrón-Romero

The scalability of photonic implementations of fault-tolerant quantum computing based on Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) qubits is injured by the requirements of inline squeezing and reconfigurability of the linear optical network. In this…

Gaussian Boson Sampling is a model of photonic quantum computing where single-mode squeezed states are sent through linear-optical interferometers and measured using single-photon detectors. In this work, we employ a recent exact sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Brajesh Gupt , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nicolás Quesada , Thomas R. Bromley

Tensor network formalisms have emerged as powerful tools for simulating quantum state evolution. While widely applied in the study of optical quantum circuits, such as Boson Sampling, existing tensor network approaches fail to address the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Dario Cilluffo , Matthias Kost , Nicola Lorenzoni , Martin B. Plenio

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a quantum computational model that leverages linear optics to solve sampling problems believed to be classically intractable. Recent experimental breakthroughs have demonstrated quantum advantage using GBS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jesua Epequin , Pascale Bendotti , Joseph Mikael

We establish a connection between continuous-variable quantum computing and high-dimensional integration by showing that the outcome probabilities of continuous-variable instantaneous quantum polynomial (CV-IQP) circuits are given by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Patrick Rebentrost , Christian Weedbrook

We use one photon to simulate an n-qubit quantum system for the first time. We propose a new scheme to realize universal quantum computation in polynomial time O(n^5). A generating set of gates can be realized with high accuracy in the lab.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Xiaoqin Gao , Zhengwei Liu

Neuromorphic processors improve the efficiency of machine learning algorithms through the implementation of physical artificial neurons to perform computations. However, whilst efficient classical neuromorphic processors have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Sam Nerenberg , Oliver D. Neill , Giulia Marcucci , Daniele Faccio

Image classification, a pivotal task in multiple industries, faces computational challenges due to the burgeoning volume of visual data. This research addresses these challenges by introducing two quantum machine learning models that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Arsenii Senokosov , Alexandr Sedykh , Asel Sagingalieva , Basil Kyriacou , Alexey Melnikov

We propose efficient algorithms for classically simulating Gaussian unitaries and measurements applied to non-Gaussian initial states. The constructions are based on decomposing the non-Gaussian states into linear combinations of Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Oliver Hahn , Ryuji Takagi , Giulia Ferrini , Hayata Yamasaki

Quantum computers may achieve speedups over their classical counterparts for solving linear algebra problems. However, in some cases -- such as for low-rank matrices -- dequantized algorithms demonstrate that there cannot be an exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao

A number of recent studies have proposed that linear representations are appropriate for solving nonlinear dynamical systems with quantum computers, which fundamentally act linearly on a wave function in a Hilbert space. Linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Yen Ting Lin , Robert B. Lowrie , Denis Aslangil , Yiğit Subaşı , Andrew T. Sornborger

Nonlinear interactions between single quantum particles are at the heart of any quantum information system, including analog quantum simulation and fault-tolerant quantum computing. This remains a particularly difficult problem for photonic…

Linear optical architectures have been extensively investigated for quantum computing and quantum machine learning applications. Recently, proposals for photonic quantum machine learning have combined linear optics with resource adaptivity,…

Optical computing often employs tailor-made hardware to implement specific algorithms, trading generality for improved performance in key aspects like speed and power efficiency. An important computing approach that is still missing its…

Photonics offers a promising platform for implementations of measurement-based quantum computing. Recently proposed fusion-based architectures aim to achieve universality and fault-tolerance. In these approaches, computation is carried out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Giovanni de Felice , Boldizsár Poór , Lia Yeh , William Cashman