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We make the case for studying the complexity of approximately simulating (sampling) quantum systems for reasons beyond that of quantum computational supremacy, such as diagnosing phase transitions. We consider the sampling complexity as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhinav Deshpande , Bill Fefferman , Minh C. Tran , Michael Foss-Feig , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Gaussian states are widely regarded as one of the most relevant classes of continuous-variable (CV) quantum states, as they naturally arise in physical systems and play a key role in quantum technologies. This motivates a fundamental…

There is a large body of evidence for the potential of greater computational power using information carriers that are quantum mechanical over those governed by the laws of classical mechanics. But the question of the exact nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. P. Lund , Michael J. Bremner , T. C. Ralph

Computing the state of a quantum mechanical many-body system composed of indistinguishable particles distributed over a multitude of modes is one of the paradigmatic test cases of computational complexity theory: Beyond well-understood…

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

Molecular vibroic spectroscopy, where the transitions involve non-trivial Bosonic correlation due to the Duschinsky Rotation, is strongly believed to be in a similar complexity class as Boson Sampling. At finite temperature, the problem is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 Joonsuk Huh , Man-Hong Yung

Bosonic Gaussian states are ubiquitous in quantum optics and condensed matter physics. While they are efficiently handled within the Gaussian formalism, sampling requires calculating amplitudes in the boson occupation basis. This step,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tong Liu , Hui-Ke Jin , Tao Xiang , Hong-Hao Tu

Quantum simulation in its current state faces experimental overhead in terms of physical space and cooling. We propose boson sampling as an alternative compact synthetic platform performing at room temperature. Identifying the capability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Anuprita V. Kulkarni , Vatsana Tiwari , Auditya Sharma , Ankur Raina

The work is devoted to the theoretical and experimental study of quantum states of light conditionally prepared by subtraction of a random number of photons from the initial multimode thermal state. A fixed number of photons is subtracted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Yu. I. Bogdanov , N. A. Bogdanova , K. G. Katamadze , G. V. Avosopiants , S. P. Kulik

Boson sampling is a leading candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage in photonic systems. Despite significant experimental and theoretical progress, a characterization of its output statistics remains incomplete. This is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Hela Mhiri , Hugo Thomas , Léo Monbroussou , Ulysse Chabaud , Zoë Holmes , Elham Kashefi

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

We introduce a new family of quantum circuits in Continuous Variables and we show that, relying on the widely accepted conjecture that the polynomial hierarchy of complexity classes does not collapse, their output probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Ulysse Chabaud , Tom Douce , Damian Markham , Peter van Loock , Elham Kashefi , Giulia Ferrini

Boson Sampling is a computational paradigm representing one of the most viable and pursued approaches to demonstrate the regime of quantum advantage. Recent results have demonstrated significant technological leaps in single-photon…

We introduce a complete description of a multi-mode bosonic quantum state in the coherent-state basis (which in this work is denoted as "$K$" function ), which---up to a phase---is the square root of the well-known Husimi "$Q$"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Christos Gagatsos , 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

Boson is one of the most basic types of particles and preserves the commutation relation. An efficient way to measure a bosonic system is important not only for simulating complex physics phenomena of bosons (such as nuclei) on a qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Tianren Gu , Xiao Yuan , Bujiao Wu

Boson sampling is one of the main quantum computation models to demonstrate the quantum computational advantage. However, this aim may be hard to realize considering two main kinds of noises, which are photon distinguishability and photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Yang Ji , Yongzheng Wu , Shi Wang , Jie Hou , Meiling Chen , Ming Ni

This work presents a theoretical model of boson sampling with optical feedback, in which a subset of the interferometer's output modes is looped back into the input modes. If the bosons are injected periodically into the input modes of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Yu. A. Biriukov , I. V. Dyakonov

We analyze the impact of photon loss on the photon-number statistics of Gaussian states. Specifically, we propose and carefully evaluate several methods to mitigate deviations in the photon-number distributions of lossy (displaced) squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hendrik Ellenberg , René Sondenheimer

All the $n(2n+3)$ mean and covariance parameters of an $n$-mode Gaussian states are expressed in terms of the expectation values of the same number of conjugates of the total number observable. This permits a complete tomography of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 K. R. Parthasarathy , Ritabrata Sengupta