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Quantum computing aims at exploiting quantum phenomena to efficiently perform computations that are unfeasible even for the most powerful classical supercomputers. Among the promising technological approaches, photonic quantum computing…

Gaussian boson sampling is originally proposed to show quantum advantage with quantum linear optical elements. Recently, several experimental breakthroughs based on Gaussian boson sampling pointing to quantum computing supremacy have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Tian-Yu Yang , Yi-Xin Shen , Zhou-Kai Cao , Xiang-Bin Wang

We study supervised learning algorithms in which a quantum device is used to perform a computational subroutine - either for prediction via probability estimation, or to compute a kernel via estimation of quantum states overlap. We design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ulysse Chabaud , Damian Markham , Adel Sohbi

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

Single-photon sensing has generated great interest as a prominent technique of long-distance and ultra-sensitive imaging, however, it tends to yield sparse and spatially biased point clouds, thus limiting its practical utility. In this…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Jinyi Liu , Guoyang Zhao , Lijun Liu , Yiguang Hong , Weiping Zhang , Shuming Cheng

We introduce an exact classical algorithm for simulating Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS). The complexity of the algorithm is exponential in the number of photons detected, which is itself a random variable. For a fixed number of modes, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Nicolás Quesada , Juan Miguel Arrazola

Single-photon sources are necessary components for many prospective quantum technologies. One candidate for a single-photon source is spontaneous parametric down conversion combined with a heralding photon detection. The heralded light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Emil R. Hellebek , Klaus Mølmer , Anders S. Sørensen

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

We analyze the impact of photon loss on the photon-number statistics of Gaussian states. Specifically, we propose and carefully evaluate several methods to mitigate deviations in the photon-number distributions of lossy (displaced) squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hendrik Ellenberg , René Sondenheimer

We provide general sufficient conditions for the efficient classical simulation of quantum-optics experiments that involve inputting states to a quantum process and making measurements at the output. The first condition is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Saleh Rahimi-Keshari , Timothy C. Ralph , Carlton M. Caves

Identifying the boundary beyond which quantum machines provide a computational advantage over their classical counterparts is a crucial step in charting their usefulness. Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS), in which photons are measured from a…

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) allows for a way to demonstrate quantum supremacy with the relatively modest experimental resources of squeezed light sources, linear optics, and photon detection. In a realistic experimental setting, numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Junheng Shi , Tim Byrnes

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

A simple model system is introduced for demonstrating how a single photon source might be used to transduce classical analog information. The theoretical scheme results in measurements of analog source samples that are (i) quantized in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Mark D. McDonnell , Adrian P. Flitney

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) provides a route toward demonstrating quantum computational advantage. However, optical loss, which reduces the entanglement in the system, can render GBS results classically simulable. We propose a nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Yukuan Zhao , Xiao-Ye Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We introduce an algorithm for the classical simulation of Gaussian boson sampling that is quadratically faster than previously known methods. The complexity of the algorithm is exponential in the number of photon pairs detected, not the…

Gaussian boson sampling is a promising scheme for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage using photonic states that are accessible in a laboratory and, thus, offer scalable sources of quantum light. In this contribution, we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 D. S. Phillips , M. Walschaers , J. J. Renema , I. A. Walmsley , N. Treps , J. Sperling

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS), a computational problem conjectured to be hard to simulate on a classical machine, has been at the forefront of recent years' experimental and theoretical efforts to demonstrate quantum advantage. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Gabriele Bressanini , Benoit Seron , Leonardo Novo , Nicolas J. Cerf , M. S. Kim

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

An algorithm and numerical code for the up-sampling of a system of particles, from a smaller to a larger number, is described. The method introduces a Poissonian `shot-noise' to the up-sampled distribution, typical of the noise statistics…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 P. Traczykowski , L. T. Campbell , B. W. J. McNeil