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Gaussian boson sampling constitutes a prime candidate for an experimental demonstration of quantum advantage within reach with current technological capabilities. The original proposal employs photon-number-resolving detectors, however the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Gabriele Bressanini , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

Since the dawn of quantum computation science, a range of quantum algorithms have been proposed, yet few have experimentally demonstrated a definitive quantum advantage. Shor's algorithm, while renowned, has not been realized at a scale to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Chon-Fai Kam , En-Jui Kuo

A multi-imaging strategy is proposed and experimentally tested to improve the accuracy of photon counting with an electron multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD), by taking into account the random nature of its on-chip gain and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Lantz , Jean Luc Blanchet , Luca Furfaro , Fabrice Devaux

Photonic qubits are key enablers for quantum-information processing deployable across a distributed quantum network. An on-demand and truly scalable source of indistinguishable single photons is the essential component enabling…

The determination of the computational complexity of the boson sampling problem with single boson sources has opened a novel research direction in the quantum computing field. Some research effort has also been devoted towards the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vincenzo Tamma , Simon Laibacher

In a Boson Sampling quantum optical experiment we send $n$ individual photons into an $m$-mode interferometer and we measure the occupation pattern on the output. The statistics of this process depending on the permanent of a matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Samo Novák , Raúl García-Patrón

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

Many applications of quantum optics demand delicate quantum properties of light carefully tailored to accomplish a specific task. To this end, numerical simulations of quantum light sources are vital for designing, characterizing, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Stephen C. Wein

We demonstrate the robustness of BosonSampling to imperfections in the linear optical network that cause a small deviation in the matrix it implements. We show that applying a noisy matrix $\tilde{U}$ that is within $\epsilon$ of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Alex Arkhipov

Gaussian boson sampling is an important protocol for testing the performance of photonic quantum simulators. As such, various noise sources have been investigated that degrade the operation of such devices. In this paper, we examine a…

Understanding the energetic efficiency of quantum computers is essential for assessing their scalability and for determining whether quantum technologies can outperform classical computation beyond runtime alone. In this work, we analyze…

We introduce a novel approach to solve optimization problems on a boson sampling device assisted by classical machine-learning techniques. By virtue of the parity function, we map all measurement patterns, which label the basis spanning an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Kamil Bradler , Hugo Wallner

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhen Yang , Zeng-Quan Yan , Li Wang , Xiao-Wei Wang , Ka-Di Zhu , Xian-Min Jin

Sampling from probability distributions of quantum circuits is a fundamentally and practically important task which can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy using noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In the present work, we examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is not only a feasible protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage, but also mathematically associated with certain graph-related and quantum chemistry problems. In particular, it is proposed…

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a prominent candidate for the experimental demonstration of quantum advantage. However, while the current implementations of GBS are unavoidably subject to noise, the robustness of the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Hyunseok Jeong

Fault-tolerant fusion-based photonic quantum computing (FBQC) greatly relies on entangling two-photon measurements, called fusions. These fusions can be realized using linear-optical projective Bell-state measurements (BSMs). These…

BosonSampling is a well-defined scheme for demonstrating quantum supremacy with photons in near term. Although relying only on multi-photon interference in nonadaptive linear-optical networks, it is hard to simulate classically. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 He-Liang Huang , Wan-Su Bao , Chu Guo

We study a new image sensor that is reminiscent of traditional photographic film. Each pixel in the sensor has a binary response, giving only a one-bit quantized measurement of the local light intensity. To analyze its performance, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Feng Yang , Yue M. Lu , Luciano Sbaiz , Martin Vetterli

Boson sampling is the task of producing samples from the number-basis distribution of many bosons traveling through a passive linear optical network. It is believed to be extremely difficult to accomplish classically, and has been the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Shawn Geller