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Boson sampling can provide strong evidence that the computational power of a quantum computer outperforms a classical one via currently feasible linear optics experiments. However, how to identify an actual boson sampling device against any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Kai Liu , Austin Lund , Yong-Jian Gu , Timothy Ralph

Boson sampling has emerged as an important tool to demonstrate the difference between quantum and classical computers and has attracted the interest of experimentalists and theoreticians. In this work we study Boson sampling from general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Craig S. Hamilton , Igor Jex

Gaussian boson sampling, a computational model that is widely believed to admit quantum supremacy, has already been experimentally demonstrated and is claimed to surpass the classical simulation capabilities of even the most powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Minzhao Liu , Changhun Oh , Junyu Liu , Liang Jiang , Yuri Alexeev

Boson sampling stands out as a promising approach toward experimental demonstration of quantum computational advantage. However, the presence of physical noise in near-term experiments hinders the realization of the quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Hyunseok Jeong

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

The demonstration of quantum speedup, also known as quantum computational supremacy, that is the ability of quantum computers to outperform dramatically their classical counterparts, is an important milestone in the field of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ulysse Chabaud , Frédéric Grosshans , Elham Kashefi , Damian Markham

Computing the state of a quantum mechanical many-body system composed of indistinguishable particles distributed over a multitude of modes is one of the paradigmatic test cases of computational complexity theory: Beyond well-understood…

The difficulty of validating large-scale quantum devices, such as Boson Samplers, poses a major challenge for any research program that aims to show quantum advantages over classical hardware. To address this problem, we propose a novel…

We study the classical complexity of the exact Boson Sampling problem where the objective is to produce provably correct random samples from a particular quantum mechanical distribution. The computational framework was proposed by Aaronson…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Peter Clifford , Raphaël Clifford

Quantum advantage, benchmarking the computational power of quantum machines outperforming all classical computers in a specific task, represents a crucial milestone in developing quantum computers and has been driving different physical…

BosonSampling is a quantum mechanical task involving Fock basis state preparation and detection and evolution using only linear interactions. A classical algorithm for producing samples from this quantum task cannot be efficient unless the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. P. Lund , S. Rahimi-Keshari , T. C. Ralph

Boson Sampling has emerged as a tool to explore the advantages of quantum over classical computers as it does not require a universal control over the quantum system, which favours current photonic experimental platforms.Here, we introduce…

To simulate bosons on a qubit- or qudit-based quantum computer, one has to regularize the theory by truncating infinite-dimensional local Hilbert spaces to finite dimensions. In the search for practical quantum applications, it is important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Masanori Hanada , Junyu Liu , Enrico Rinaldi , Masaki Tezuka

We make the case for studying the complexity of approximately simulating (sampling) quantum systems for reasons beyond that of quantum computational supremacy, such as diagnosing phase transitions. We consider the sampling complexity as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhinav Deshpande , Bill Fefferman , Minh C. Tran , Michael Foss-Feig , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We study the hardness of classically simulating Gaussian boson sampling at nonzero photon distinguishability. We find that similar to regular boson sampling, distinguishability causes exponential attenuation of the many-photon interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Jelmer J. Renema

Boson Sampling is a task that is conjectured to be computationally hard for a classical computer, but which can be efficiently solved by linear-optical interferometers with Fock state inputs. Significant advances have been reported in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Nicolò Spagnolo , Daniel J. Brod , Ernesto F. Galvão , Fabio Sciarrino

Gaussian boson sampling is a model of photonic quantum computing that has attracted attention as a platform for building quantum devices capable of performing tasks that are out of reach for classical devices. There is therefore significant…

Boson sampling is a problem for which quantum devices could prove to go beyond classical computing using only linear optics and photon preparation and counting. While theoretically important, there is a lack of practical applications for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin

Boson sampling can simulate physical problems for which classical simulations are inefficient. However, not all problems simulated by boson sampling are classically intractable. We consider a situation in which it is known that the outcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Wojciech Roga , Masahiro Takeoka

Boson sampling is a key candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage, and has already yielded significant advances in quantum simulation, machine learning, and graph theory. In this work, a unification and extension of distinct forms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Luca Bianchi , Carlo Marconi , Laura Ares , Davide Bacco , Jan Sperling