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The quantum central limit theorem derived by Cushen and Hudson provides the foundations for understanding how subsystems of large bosonic systems evolving unitarily do reach equilibrium. It finds important applications in the context of…

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A crucial milestone in the field of quantum simulation and computation is to demonstrate that a quantum device can compute certain tasks that are impossible to reproduce by a classical computer with any reasonable resources. Such a…

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

An important challenge with the current generation of noisy, large-scale quantum computers is the question of validation. Does the hardware generate correct answers? If not, what are the errors? This issue is often combined with questions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Alexander S. Dellios , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

We demonstrate experimentally quantum-inspired, spectral-domain intensity optical coherence tomography. We show that the technique allows for both axial resolution improvement and dispersion cancellation compared to conventional optical…

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Boson sampling is the problem of generating a quantum bit stream whose average is the permanent of a $n\times n$ matrix. The bitstream is created as the output of a prototype quantum computing device with $n$ input photons. It is a…

Increasing the complexity of quantum photonic devices is essential for many optical information processing applications to reach a regime beyond what can be classically simulated, and integrated photonics has emerged as a leading platform…

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) has emerged as a promising quantum computing paradigm, demonstrating its potential in various applications. However, most existing works focus on theoretical aspects or simple tasks, with limited exploration of…

In order to substantiate claims of quantum computational advantage, it is crucial to develop efficient methods for validating the experimental data. We propose a test of the correct functioning of a boson sampler with single-photon inputs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Benoit Seron , Leonardo Novo , Alex Arkhipov , Nicolas J. Cerf

A boson sampling device could efficiently sample from the output probability distribution of noninteracting bosons undergoing many-body interference. This problem is not only classically intractable, but its solution is also believed to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Sheng-Tao Wang , Lu-Ming Duan

Non-classical interference of photons lies at the heart of optical quantum information processing. This effect is exploited in universal quantum gates as well as in purpose-built quantum computers that solve the BosonSampling problem.…

Multiphoton interference is an essential phenomenon at the very heart not only of fundamental quantum optics and applications in quantum information processing and sensing but also of demonstrations of quantum computational supremacy in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Vincenzo Tamma , Simon Laibacher

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a quantum computing concept based on drawing samples from a multimode nonclassical Gaussian state using photon-number resolving detectors. It was initially posed as a near-term approach aiming to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 S. Sempere-Llagostera , R. B. Patel , I. A. Walmsley , W. S. Kolthammer

Gaussian states, operations, and measurements are central building blocks for continuous-variable quantum information processing which paves the way for abundant applications, especially including network-based quantum computation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Mengzhen Zhang

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…

Quantum collision describe open quantum systems through repeated interactions with a coarse-grained environment. However, a complete certification of these models is lacking, as no complete error bounds on the simulation of system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Thibaut Lacroix , Dario Cilluffo , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

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 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

The boson sampling problem has triggered a lot of interest in the scientific community because of its potential of demonstrating the computational power of quantum interference without the need of non-linear processes. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Vincenzo Tamma , Simon Laibacher

Photonic architectures are one of the leading platforms for demonstrating quantum computational advantage, with Boson Sampling and Gaussian Boson Sampling as the primary schemes. Yet, we lack for these photonic primitives a systematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Zoltán Kolarovszki , Ágoston Kaposi , Zoltán Zimborás , Michał Oszmaniec