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BosonSampling is a quantum mechanical task involving Fock basis state preparation and detection and evolution using only linear interactions. A classical algorithm for producing samples from this quantum task cannot be efficient unless the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. P. Lund , S. Rahimi-Keshari , T. C. Ralph

We demonstrate how boson sampling with photons of partial distinguishability can be expressed in terms of interference of fewer photons. We use this observation to propose a classical algorithm to simulate the output of a boson sampler fed…

Quantum advantage, benchmarking the computational power of quantum machines outperforming all classical computers in a specific task, represents a crucial milestone in developing quantum computers and has been driving different physical…

Evaluating the Torontonian function is a central computational challenge in the simulation of Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) with threshold detection. In this work, we propose a recursive algorithm providing a polynomial speedup in the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Ágoston Kaposi , Zoltán Kolarovszki , Tamás Kozsik , Zoltán Zimborás , Péter Rakyta

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS), which can be realized with a photonic quantum computing model, perform some special kind of sampling tasks. In [4], we introduced algorithms that use GBS samples to approximate Gaussian expectation problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen , Shan Shan

We study the hardness of classically simulating Gaussian boson sampling at nonzero photon distinguishability. We find that similar to regular boson sampling, distinguishability causes exponential attenuation of the many-photon interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Jelmer J. Renema

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

The creation of large-scale, high-fidelity quantum computers is not only a fundamental scientific endeavour in itself, but also provides increasingly robust proofs of quantum computational advantage (QCA) in the presence of unavoidable…

We pose a generalized Boson Sampling problem. Strong evidence exists that such a problem becomes intractable on a classical computer as a function of the number of Bosons. We describe a quantum optical processor that can solve this problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 A. P. Lund , A. Laing , S. Rahimi-Keshari , T. Rudolph , J. L O'Brien , T. C. Ralph

It is predicted that quantum computers will dramatically outperform their conventional counterparts. However, large-scale universal quantum computers are yet to be built. Boson sampling is a rudimentary quantum algorithm tailored to the…

To understand quantum optics experiments, we must perform calculations that consider the principal sources of noise, such as losses, spectral impurity and partial distinguishability. In both discrete and continuous variable systems, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jacob F. F. Bulmer , Javier Martínez-Cifuentes , Bryn A. Bell , Nicolás Quesada

A famously hard graph problem with a broad range of applications is computing the number of perfect matchings, that is the number of unique and complete pairings of the vertices of a graph. We propose a method to estimate the number of…

We present a quantum algorithm for efficiently sampling transformed Gaussian random fields on $d$-dimensional domains, based on an enhanced version of the classical moving average method. Pointwise transformations enforcing boundedness are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

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…

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

Boson sampling is a fundamentally and practically important task that can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy using noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In this work, we present classical sampling algorithms for single-photon and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

Boson sampling is a key candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage, and has already yielded significant advances in quantum simulation, machine learning, and graph theory. In this work, a unification and extension of distinct forms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Luca Bianchi , Carlo Marconi , Laura Ares , Davide Bacco , Jan Sperling

We study what is arguably the most experimentally appealing Boson Sampling architecture: Gaussian states sampled with threshold detectors. We show that in this setting, the probability of observing a given outcome is related to a matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Nicolás Quesada , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nathan Killoran

Advances in photonics require photon-number resolved simulations of quantum optical experiments with Gaussian states. We demonstrate a simple and versatile method to simulate the photon statistics of general multimode Gaussian states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Erik Fitzke , Florian Niederschuh , Thomas Walther

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) allows for a way to demonstrate quantum supremacy with the relatively modest experimental resources of squeezed light sources, linear optics, and photon detection. In a realistic experimental setting, numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Junheng Shi , Tim Byrnes