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Qubits are neither fermions nor bosons. A Fock space description of qubits leads to a mapping from qubits to parafermions: particles with a hybrid boson-fermion quantum statistics. We study this mapping in detail, and use it to provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. -A. Wu , D. A. Lidar

An integrable anharmonic oscillator is presumably simulable by a classical computer and therefore by a quantum computer. An integrable anharmonic oscillator whose Hamiltonian is of normal type and quartic in the canonical coordinates is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Abel Wolman

A central task in quantum information processing is to characterize quantum processes. In the realm of optical quantum information processing, this amounts to characterizing the transformations of the mode creation and annihilation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Kevin Valson Jacob , Anthony E. Mirasola , Sushovit Adhikari , Jonathan P. Dowling

We present a classical algorithm for approximating the expectation values of observables in linear-optical circuits with arbitrary product input states, achieving additive-error accuracy. This result indicates that current applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Youngrong Lim , Changhun Oh

Unconventional physical computing is producing many novel and exotic devices that can potentially be used in a computational mode. Currently, these tend to be used to implement traditional models of computation, such as boolean logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sampreet Kalita , Benjamin W. Butler , Susan Stepney , Viv Kendon

We give a set of sufficient conditions on the experimental Boson-Sampling computer to satisfy Theorem 1.3 of Aaronson & Arkhipov (Theory of Computing \textbf{9}, 143 (2013)) stating a computational problem whose simulation on a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-22 V. S. Shchesnovich

Quantum computing (QC) architectures utilizing classical or coherent resources with Gaussian transformations are classically simulable as an indicator of the lack of QC power. Simple optical set-ups utilizing wave-particle duality and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Burhan Gulbahar

The identification of phenomena able to pinpoint quantum interference is attracting large interest. Indeed, a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect valid for any number of photons and optical modes would represent an important leap…

Simulations of stochastic processes play an important role in the quantitative sciences, enabling the characterisation of complex systems. Recent work has established a quantum advantage in stochastic simulation, leading to quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Farzad Ghafari , Nora Tischler , Carlo Di Franco , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu , Geoff J. Pryde

We present here a classical optics device based on an imaging architecture as analogy of a quantum system where the violation of the Bell inequality can be evidenced. In our case, the two qbits entangled state needed to obtain non classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 M. Goldin , D. Francisco , S. Ledesma

Hamiltonian quantum simulation of bosons on digital quantum computers requires truncating the Hilbert space to finite dimensions. The method of truncation and the choice of basis states can significantly impact the complexity of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Masanori Hanada , Shunji Matsuura , Emanuele Mendicelli , Enrico Rinaldi

Quantum memristors represent a promising interface between quantum and neuromorphic computing, combining the nonlinear, memory-dependent behavior of classical memristors with the properties of quantum states. An optical quantum memristor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Simone Di Micco , Beatrice Polacchi , Taira Giordani , Fabio Sciarrino

We identify a broad class of physical processes in an optical quantum circuit that can be efficiently simulated on a classical computer: this class includes unitary transformations, amplification, noise, and measurements. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Barry C. Sanders

The physical implementation of artificial intelligence requires mapping computational processes onto the dynamic physical processes of the underlying computing platform. The photonic processors offer an intrinsically parallel and low energy…

Assessing whether a quantum state $\hat \rho$ is nonclassical ($\textit{i.e.}$, incompatible with a mixture of coherent states) is a ubiquitous question in quantum optics, yet a nontrivial experimental task because many nonclassicality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Célia Griffet , Matthieu Arnhem , Stephan De Bièvre , Nicolas J. Cerf

Sampling from a quantum distribution can be exponentially hard for classical computers and yet could be performed efficiently by a noisy intermediate-scale quantum device. A prime example of a distribution that is hard to sample is given by…

Quantum scissors device of Pegg et al. (1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1604) enables truncation of the Fock-state expansion of an input optical field to qubit and qutrit (three-dimensional) states only. Here, a generalized scissors device is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Miranowicz

Multi-mode optical interferometers represent the most viable platforms for the successful implementation of several quantum information schemes that take advantage of optical processing. Examples range from quantum communication, sensing…

It is imperative that useful quantum computers be very difficult to simulate classically; otherwise classical computers could be used for the applications envisioned for the quantum ones. Perfect quantum computers are unarguably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yiqing Zhou , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Xavier Waintal

We implement a simulation of a quantum field theory in 1+1 space-time dimensions on a gate-based quantum computer using the light front formulation of the theory. The nonperturbative simulation of the Yukawa model field theory is verified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Gayathree M. Vinod , Anil Shaji