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An increasing number of communication and computational schemes with quantum advantages have recently been proposed, which implies that quantum technology has fertile application prospects. However, demonstrating these schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Min-Gang Zhou , Xiao-Yu Cao , Yu-Shuo Lu , Yang Wang , Yu Bao , Zhao-Ying Jia , Yao Fu , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Tensor network formalisms have emerged as powerful tools for simulating quantum state evolution. While widely applied in the study of optical quantum circuits, such as Boson Sampling, existing tensor network approaches fail to address the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Dario Cilluffo , Matthias Kost , Nicola Lorenzoni , Martin B. Plenio

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.…

Recently, Motes, Gilchrist, Dowling & Rohde [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 120501 (2014)] presented a scheme for photonic boson-sampling using a fiber-loop architecture. Here we show that the same architecture can be modified to implement full,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Peter P. Rohde

If classical algorithms have been successful in reproducing the estimation of expectation values of observables of some quantum circuits using off-the-shelf computing resources, matching the performance of the most advanced quantum devices…

To simulate noisy boson sampling approximating it by only the lower-order multi-boson interferences (e.g., by a smaller number of interfering bosons and classical particles) is very popular idea. I show that the output data from any such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Valery Shchesnovich

Interference of multiple photons via a linear-optical network has profound applications for quantum foundation, quantum metrology and quantum computation. Particularly, a boson sampling experiment with a moderate number of photons becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Xu-Jie Wang , Bo Jing , Peng-Fei Sun , Chao-Wei Yang , Yong Yu , Vincenzo Tamma , Xiao-Hui Bao , Jian-Wei Pan

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

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

Quasiprobability representation is an important tool for analyzing a quantum system, such as a quantum state or a quantum circuit. In this work, we propose classical algorithms specialized for approximating outcome probabilities of a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Youngrong Lim , Changhun Oh

The goal of demonstrating a quantum advantage with currently available experimental systems is of utmost importance in quantum information science. While this remains elusive for quantum computation, the field of communication complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 Niraj Kumar , Iordanis Kerenidis , Eleni Diamanti

We prove that a classical computer can efficiently sample from the photon-number probability distribution of a Gaussian state prepared by using an optical circuit that is shallow and local. Our work generalizes previous known results for…

Boson sampling is a sub-universal model used to show quantum speed-up. However, the methods of validation to prove quantum speedup are not robust and accurate. All verification methods involve additional or little studied assumptions. Here,…

The demonstration of quantum speedup, also known as quantum computational supremacy, that is the ability of quantum computers to outperform dramatically their classical counterparts, is an important milestone in the field of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ulysse Chabaud , Frédéric Grosshans , Elham Kashefi , Damian Markham

Since its introduction Boson Sampling has been the subject of intense study in the world of quantum computing. The task is to sample independently from the set of all $n \times n$ submatrices built from possibly repeated rows of a larger $m…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Peter Clifford , Raphaël Clifford

Quantum computers solve intractable problems which classically require an exponentially long time to compute. With the development of large-scale experiments that claim quantum advantage, a vital issue has now emerged. What are the errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ned Goodman , Alexander S. Dellios , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

The problem of sampling outputs of quantum circuits has been proposed as a candidate for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage (sometimes referred to as quantum "supremacy"). In this work, we investigate whether quantum advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Leonardo Novo , Juani Bermejo-Vega , Raúl García-Patrón

Boson sampling can provide strong evidence that the computational power of a quantum computer outperforms a classical one via currently feasible linear optics experiments. However, how to identify an actual boson sampling device against any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Kai Liu , Austin Lund , Yong-Jian Gu , Timothy Ralph

With the recent claim of a quantum advantage demonstration in photonics by Zhong et al, the question of the computation of lower-order approximations of boson sampling with arbitrary quantum states at arbitrary distinguishability has come…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Jelmer J. Renema

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