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Sampling the distribution of bosons that have undergone a random unitary evolution is strongly believed to be a computationally hard problem. Key to outperforming classical simulations of this task is to increase both the number of input…

Boson-Sampling is a classically computationally hard problem that can - in principle - be efficiently solved with quantum linear optical networks. Very recently, a rush of experimental activity has ignited with the aim of developing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 C. Gogolin , M. Kliesch , L. Aolita , J. Eisert

Multiphoton interference is at the very heart of quantum foundations and applications in quantum sensing and information processing. In particular, boson sampling experiments have the potential to demonstrate quantum computational supremacy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Vincenzo Tamma , Simon Laibacher

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 is one of the leading protocols for demonstrating a quantum advantage, but the theory of how this protocol responds to noise is still incomplete. We extend the theory of classical simulation of boson sampling with partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 S. N. van den Hoven , E. Kanis , J. J. Renema

Boson sampling is a fundamentally and practically important task that can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy using noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In this work, we present classical sampling algorithms for single-photon and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage. One of the key steps for proving classical hardness of GBS is the so-called ``hiding conjecture'', which asserts that one can ``hide''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Laura Shou , Sarah H. Miller , Victor Galitski

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

Boson sampling is a leading candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage in photonic systems. Despite significant experimental and theoretical progress, a characterization of its output statistics remains incomplete. This is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Hela Mhiri , Hugo Thomas , Léo Monbroussou , Ulysse Chabaud , Zoë Holmes , Elham Kashefi

It is predicted that quantum computers will dramatically outperform their conventional counterparts. However, large-scale universal quantum computers are yet to be built. Boson sampling is a rudimentary quantum algorithm tailored to the…

Although the Schr{\"o}dinger and Heisenberg pictures are equivalent formulations of quantum mechanics, simulations performed choosing one over the other can greatly impact the computational resources required to solve a problem. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Dario Cilluffo , Nicola Lorenzoni , Martin B. Plenio

Boson sampling is a sampling task proven to be hard to simulate efficiently using classical computers under plausible assumptions, which makes it an appealing candidate for quantum supremacy. However, due to a large noise rate for near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Hyunseok Jeong

Gaussian boson sampling is a promising model for demonstrating quantum computational supremacy, which eases the experimental challenge of the standard boson-sampling proposal. Here by analyzing the computational costs of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Bujiao Wu , Bin Cheng , Jialin Zhang , Man-Hong Yung , Xiaoming Sun

Advances in photonics require photon-number resolved simulations of quantum optical experiments with Gaussian states. We demonstrate a simple and versatile method to simulate the photon statistics of general multimode Gaussian states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Erik Fitzke , Florian Niederschuh , Thomas Walther

A boson sampling device is a specialised quantum computer that solves a problem which is strongly believed to be computationally hard for classical computers. Recently a number of small-scale implementations have been reported, all based on…

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

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…

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

The search for new, application-specific quantum computers designed to outperform any classical computer is driven by the ending of Moore's law and the quantum advantages potentially obtainable. Photonic networks are promising examples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Bogdan Opanchuk , Laura Rosales-Zarate , Margaret D Reid , Peter D Drummond

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