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Gaussian processes are a powerful framework for quantifying uncertainty and for sequential decision-making but are limited by the requirement of solving linear systems. In general, this has a cubic cost in dataset size and is sensitive to…

A linear-time algorithm is presented for the construction of the Gibbs distribution of configurations in the Ising model, on a quantum computer. The algorithm is designed so that each run provides one configuration with a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel A. Lidar , Ofer Biham

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) exhibits a unique ability to solve graph problems, such as finding cliques in complex graphs. It is noteworthy that many drug discovery tasks can be viewed as the clique-finding process, making them potentially…

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) generate random samples of photon-click patterns from a class of probability distributions that are hard for a classical computer to sample from. Despite heroic demonstrations for quantum supremacy using GBS,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Mushkan Sureka , Saikat Guha

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a variety of boson sampling overcoming the stable single-photon preparation difficulty of the later. However, like those in the original version, noises in GBS will also result in the deviation of output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yang Ji , Yongzheng Wu , Shi Wang , Jie Hou , Zijian Wang , Bo Jiang

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a near-term quantum computation framework that is believed to be classically intractable, but yet rich of potential applications. In this paper we study the intimate relation between distributions defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Kamil Bradler , Robert Israel , Maria Schuld , Daiqin Su

A Gaussian boson sampler (GBS) is a special-purpose quantum computer that can be practically realized at large scale in optics. Here we report on experiments in which we used a frequency-multiplexed GBS with $>400$ modes as the reservoir in…

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is considered a candidate problem for demonstrating quantum advantage. We propose an algorithm for approximate classical simulation of a lossy GBS instance. The algorithm relies on the Taylor series expansion,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 M. V. Umanskii , A. N. Rubtsov

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is capable of solving certain classes of graph problems owing to the samples produced by such a device having a connection to the hafnian matrix function. In particular, a GBS device has been shown to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ewan Mer , Zhenghao Li , Shang Yu , Ian A. Walmsley , Raj B. Patel

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is quantum sampling task in which one has to draw samples from the photon-number distribution of a large-dimensional nonclassical squeezed state of light. In an effort to make this task intractable for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 G. S. Thekkadath , S. Sempere-Llagostera , B. A. Bell , R. B. Patel , M. S. Kim , I. A. Walmsley

A growing cohort of experimental linear photonic networks implementing Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) have now claimed quantum advantage. However, many open questions remain on how to effectively verify these experimental results, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Alexander S. Dellios , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

The continuous variable quantum computing platform constitutes a promising candidate for realizing quantum advantage, as exemplified in Gaussian Boson Sampling. While noise in the experiments makes the computation attainable for classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Jonas Vinther , Michael James Kastoryano

Gaussian Boson Sampling is a non-universal model for quantum computing inspired by the original formulation of the Boson Sampling problem. Nowadays, it represents a paradigmatic quantum platform to reach the quantum advantage regime in a…

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a promising candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage and can be applied to solving graph-related problems. In this work, we propose Markov chain Monte Carlo-based algorithms to sample from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Yexin Zhang , Shuo Zhou , Xinzhao Wang , Ziruo Wang , Ziyi Yang , Rui Yang , Yecheng Xue , Tongyang Li

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…

The tantalizing promise of quantum computational speedup in solving certain problems has been strongly supported by recent experimental evidence from a high-fidelity 53-qubit superconducting processor1 and Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) with…

We show that a distribution related to Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) on graphs can be sampled classically in polynomial time. Graphical applications of GBS typically sample from this distribution, and thus quantum algorithms do not provide…

Boson sampling devices are a prime candidate for exhibiting quantum supremacy, yet their application for solving problems of practical interest is less well understood. Here we show that Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) can be used for dense…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Thomas R. Bromley

Hard optimization problems are often approached by finding approximate solutions. Here, we highlight the concept of proportional sampling and discuss how it can be used to improve the performance of stochastic algorithms for optimization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Thomas R. Bromley , Patrick Rebentrost

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) provides a route toward demonstrating quantum computational advantage. However, optical loss, which reduces the entanglement in the system, can render GBS results classically simulable. We propose a nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Yukuan Zhao , Xiao-Ye Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo