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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…

Boson Sampling is the problem of sampling from the same distribution as indistinguishable single photons at the output of a linear optical interferometer. It is an example of a non-universal quantum computation which is believed to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-28 Alexandra E. Moylett , Raúl García-Patrón , Jelmer J. Renema , Peter S. Turner

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…

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 computing aims at exploiting quantum phenomena to efficiently perform computations that are unfeasible even for the most powerful classical supercomputers. Among the promising technological approaches, photonic quantum computing…

Optical losses are the main obstacle to demonstrating a quantum advantage via boson sampling without leaving open the possibility of classical spoofing. We propose a method for generating low-depth optical circuits suitable for boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 R. van der Meer , S. Huber , P. W. H. Pinkse , R. García-Patrón , J. J. Renema

The boson sampling problem has brought a lot of attention in the quantum information field because it is not efficiently solvable with a classical computer; nonetheless it can be implemented with linear optical interferometers with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincenzo Tamma

Boson Sampling represents a promising approach to obtain an evidence of the supremacy of quantum systems as a resource for the solution of computational problems. The classical hardness of Boson Sampling has been related to the so called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Ludovico Latmiral , Nicolò Spagnolo , Fabio Sciarrino

Analyzing the properties of complex quantum systems is crucial for further development of quantum devices, yet this task is typically challenging and demanding with respect to required amount of measurements. A special attention to this…

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…

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

Achieving a quantum computational advantage regime, and thus providing evidence against the extended Church-Turing thesis, remains one of the key challenges of modern science. Boson sampling seems to be a very promising platform in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 A. A. Mazanik , A. N. Rubtsov

Boson sampling has been theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated to show quantum computational advantages. However, it still lacks the deep understanding of the practical applications of boson sampling. Here we propose that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Wen-Qiang Liu , Zhang-qi Yin

The efficient simulation of quantum systems is a primary motivating factor for developing controllable quantum machines. For addressing systems with underlying bosonic structure, it is advantageous to utilize a naturally bosonic platform.…

Boson sampling is a specialised algorithm native to the quantum photonic platform developed for near-term demonstrations of quantum advantage over classical computers. While clear useful applications for such near-term pre-fault-tolerance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Patrik I. Sund , Ravitej Uppu , Stefano Paesani , Peter Lodahl

BosonSampling is the leading candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage in photonic systems. While we have recently seen many impressive experimental demonstrations, there is still a formidable distance between the…

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 2018-04-13 B. Opanchuk , L. Rosales-Zárate , M. D. Reid , P. D. Drummond

Verification of a quantum advantage in the presence of noise is a key open problem in the study of near-term quantum devices. In this work, we show how to assess the quality of photonic interference in a linear optical quantum device (boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jelmer J. Renema , Hui Wang , Jian Qin , Xiang You , Chaoyang Lu , Jianwei Pan

We present an experimental demonstration of boson sampling enhanced by optical feedback lines, a novel approach that introduces temporal correlations among photons to amplify computational complexity. We utilize a 25-mode femtosecond…

Multi-photon interference in large multi-port interferometers is key to linear optical quantum computing and in particular to boson sampling. Silicon photonics enables complex interferometric circuits with many components in a small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bryn A. Bell , Guillaume S. Thekkadath , Renyou Ge , Xinlun Cai , Ian A. Walmsley