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A major challenge in optical quantum processing is implementing large, stable interferometers. Here we propose a virtual, measurement-based interferometer that is programmed on the fly solely by the choice of homodyne measurement angles.…

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Quantum random sampling is the leading proposal for demonstrating a computational advantage of quantum computers over classical computers. Recently, first large-scale implementations of quantum random sampling have arguably surpassed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Dominik Hangleiter , Jens Eisert

Multi-particle interference is a key resource for quantum information processing, as exemplified by Boson Sampling. Hence, given its fragile nature, an essential desideratum is a solid and reliable framework for its validation. However,…

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

Gaussian building blocks are essential for photonic quantum information processing, and universality can be practically achieved by equipping Gaussian circuits with adaptive measurement and feedforward. The number of adaptive steps then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim

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…

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Gaussian boson sampling is a promising candidate for showing experimental quantum advantage. While there is evidence that noiseless Gaussian boson sampling is hard to efficiently simulate using a classical computer, the current Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Changhun Oh , Minzhao Liu , Yuri Alexeev , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

Gaussian Boson Samplers are photonic quantum devices with the potential to perform tasks that are intractable for classical systems. As with other near-term quantum technologies, an outstanding challenge is to identify specific problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Leonardo Banchi , Mark Fingerhuth , Tomas Babej , Christopher Ing , Juan Miguel Arrazola

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

Photonics is a promising platform for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage (QCA) by outperforming the most powerful classical supercomputers on a well-defined computational task. Despite this promise, existing proposals and…

Simulation offers a simple and flexible way to estimate the power of a clinical trial when analytic formulae are not available. The computational burden of using simulation has, however, restricted its application to only the simplest of…

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising candidate for an experimental demonstration of quantum advantage using photons. However, sufficiently large noise might hinder a GBS implementation from entering the regime where quantum speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Gabriele Bressanini , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

We have recently seen the first plausible claims for quantum advantage using sampling problems such as random circuit sampling and Gaussian boson sampling. The obvious next step is to channel the potential quantum advantage to solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Yat Wong , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

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

A device called a 'Gaussian Boson Sampler' has initially been proposed as a near-term demonstration of classically intractable quantum computation. As recently shown, it can also be used to decide whether two graphs are isomorphic. Based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Maria Schuld , Kamil Brádler , Robert Israel , Daiqin Su , Brajesh Gupt

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…

Using tools from quantum information theory, we present a general theory of indistinguishability of identical bosons in experiments consisting of passive linear optics followed by particle number detection. Our results do neither rely on…

We describe an efficient, scalable Gaussian boson sampler based on a classical description of squeezed quantum light and a deterministic model of single-photon detectors that click when the incident amplitude falls above a given threshold.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Sarvesh Raghuraman , Aditya Patwardhan , Brian La Cour

We present an architecture for arbitrarily scalable boson-sampling using two nested fiber loops. The architecture has fixed experimental complexity, irrespective of the size of the desired interferometer, whose scale is limited only by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Keith R. Motes , Alexei Gilchrist , Jonathan P. Dowling , Peter P. Rohde

Sampling random variables following a Boltzmann distribution is an NP-hard problem involved in various applications such as training of \textit{Boltzmann machines}, a specific kind of neural network. Several attempts have been made to use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Thomas Pochart , Paulin Jacquot , Joseph Mikael