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Demonstrating quantum superiority for some computational task will be a milestone for quantum technologies and would show that computational advantages are possible not only with a universal quantum computer but with simpler physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

Recently developed quantum algorithms suggest that quantum computers can solve certain problems and perform certain tasks more efficiently than conventional computers. Among other reasons, this is due to the possibility of creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rolando D. Somma

Although the $k$-mode marginal distributions of Canonical Boson Sampling (CBS) are known to be computable in polynomial time, the physical mechanism driving this computational efficiency remains mathematically opaque. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Jiang Liu

Quantum simulation in its current state faces experimental overhead in terms of physical space and cooling. We propose boson sampling as an alternative compact synthetic platform performing at room temperature. Identifying the capability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Anuprita V. Kulkarni , Vatsana Tiwari , Auditya Sharma , Ankur Raina

Boson sampling is one of the main quantum computation models to demonstrate the quantum computational advantage. However, this aim may be hard to realize considering two main kinds of noises, which are photon distinguishability and photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Yang Ji , Yongzheng Wu , Shi Wang , Jie Hou , Meiling Chen , Ming Ni

We construct a quantum-inspired classical algorithm for computing the permanent of Hermitian positive semidefinite matrices, by exploiting a connection between these mathematical structures and the boson sampling model. Specifically, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 L. Chakhmakhchyan , N. J. Cerf , R. Garcia-Patron

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

Many developing quantum technologies make use of quantum networks of different types. Even linear quantum networks are nontrivial, as the output photon distributions can be exponentially complex. Despite this, they can still be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Dellios , Peter D. Drummond , Bogdan Opanchuk , Run Yan Teh , Margaret D. Reid

Optical losses are the main obstacle to demonstrating a quantum advantage via boson sampling without leaving open the possibility of classical spoofing. We propose a method for generating low-depth optical circuits suitable for boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 R. van der Meer , S. Huber , P. W. H. Pinkse , R. García-Patrón , J. J. Renema

Sampling from probability distributions of quantum circuits is a fundamentally and practically important task which can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy using noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In the present work, we examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

We suggest a novel scheme for generating multimode squeezed states for the boson sampling implementation. The idea is to replace a commonly used linear interferometer by a multimode resonator containing a passive optical element consisting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Sergey V. Tarasov , Vladimir V. Kocharovsky

Quantum information processing provides remarkable advantages over its classical counterpart. Quantum optical systems are proved to be sufficient for realizing general quantum tasks, which however often rely on single photon sources. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Xiao Yuan , Zhen Zhang , Norbert Lutkenhaus , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum computers solve intractable problems which classically require an exponentially long time to compute. With the development of large-scale experiments that claim quantum advantage, a vital issue has now emerged. What are the errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ned Goodman , Alexander S. Dellios , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

Recently, machine learning had a remarkable impact, from scientific to everyday-life applications. However, complex tasks often imply unfeasible energy and computational power consumption. Quantum computation might lower such requirements,…

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) generate random samples of photon-click patterns from a class of probability distributions that are hard for a classical computer to sample from. Despite heroic demonstrations for quantum supremacy using GBS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Mushkan Sureka , Saikat Guha

The main features of quantum mechanics reside in interference deriving from the superposition of different quantum objects. While current quantum optical technology enables two-photon interference both in bulk and integrated systems,…

To understand quantum optics experiments, we must perform calculations that consider the principal sources of noise, such as losses, spectral impurity and partial distinguishability. In both discrete and continuous variable systems, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jacob F. F. Bulmer , Javier Martínez-Cifuentes , Bryn A. Bell , Nicolás Quesada

BosonSampling is the leading candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage in photonic systems. While we have recently seen many impressive experimental demonstrations, there is still a formidable distance between the…

Boson sampling is a mathematical problem that is strongly believed to be intractable for classical computers, whereas passive linear interferometers can produce samples efficiently. So far, the problem remains a computational curiosity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Georgios M. Nikolopoulos , Thomas Brougham

Multi-photon interference is at the heart of photonic quantum technologies. Arrays of integrated cavities can support bright sources of single-photons with high purity and small footprint, but the inevitable spectral distinguishability…