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Universal quantum computers promise a dramatic speed-up over classical computers but a full-size realization remains challenging. However, intermediate quantum computational models have been proposed that are not universal, but can solve…

The main promise of quantum computing is to efficiently solve certain problems that are prohibitively expensive for a classical computer. Most problems with a proven quantum advantage involve the repeated use of a black box, or oracle,…

Classical simulations of noisy quantum circuits are instrumental to our understanding of the behavior of real-world quantum systems and the identification of regimes where one expects quantum advantage. In this work, we present a highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Simon Cichy , Paul K. Faehrmann , Lennart Bittel , Jens Eisert , Hakop Pashayan

Quantum computing's potential is immense, promising super-polynomial reductions in execution time, energy use, and memory requirements compared to classical computers. This technology has the power to revolutionize scientific applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Samudra Dasgupta

In this review article we summarize all experiments claiming quantum computational advantage to date. Our review highlights challenges, loopholes, and refutations appearing in subsequent work to provide a complete picture of the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ryan LaRose

Stochastic models are highly relevant tools in science, engineering, and society. Recent work suggests emerging quantum computing technologies can substantially decrease the memory requirements for simulating stochastic models. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 John Realpe-Gómez , Nathan Killoran

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 exploits squeezed states to provide a highly efficient way to demonstrate quantum computational advantage. We perform experiments with 50 input single-mode squeezed states with high indistinguishability and squeezing…

We present a formalism that captures the process of proving quantum superiority to skeptics as an interactive game between two agents, supervised by a referee. Bob, is sampling from a classical distribution on a quantum device that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Daniel Stilck França , Raul Garcia-Patron

Recent advancements in quantum technologies have opened new horizons for exploring the physical world in ways once deemed impossible. Central to these breakthroughs is the concept of quantum advantage, where quantum systems outperform their…

This thesis is based upon the work I have done during my PhD candidature at Macquarie University. In this work we develop quantum technologies that are directed towards realising a quantum computer. Specifically, we have made many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-17 Keith R. Motes

We present a framework that utilizes quantum algorithms, an architecture aware quantum noise model and an ideal simulator to benchmark quantum computers. The benchmark metrics highlight the difference between the quantum computer evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Konstantinos Georgopoulos , Clive Emary , Paolo Zuliani

Consider a fixed universe of $N=2^n$ elements and the uniform distribution over elements of some subset of size $K$. Given samples from this distribution, the task of complement sampling is to provide a sample from the complementary subset.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Marcello Benedetti , Harry Buhrman , Jordi Weggemans

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

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

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

In recent years, many computational tasks have been proposed as candidates for showing a quantum computational advantage, that is an advantage in the time needed to perform the task using a quantum instead of a classical machine.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Federico Centrone , Niraj Kumar , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

Several quantum hardware platforms, while being unable to perform fully fault-tolerant quantum computation, can still be operated as analogue quantum simulators for addressing many-body problems. However, due to the presence of errors, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Rahul Trivedi , Adrian Franco Rubio , J. Ignacio Cirac

Boson Sampling is the problem of sampling from the same output probability distribution as a collection of indistinguishable single photons input into a linear interferometer. It has been shown that, subject to certain computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Alexandra E. Moylett , Peter S. Turner

When the problem of boson sampling was first proposed, it was assumed that little or no photon collisions occur. However, modern experimental realizations rely on setups where collisions are quite common, i.e. the number of photons $M$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 M. Umanskii , A. N. Rubtsov