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Boson sampling has emerged as an important tool to demonstrate the difference between quantum and classical computers and has attracted the interest of experimentalists and theoreticians. In this work we study Boson sampling from general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Craig S. Hamilton , Igor Jex

Boson sampling is considered as a strong candidate to demonstrate the quantum computational supremacy over classical computers. However, previous proof-of-principle experiments suffered from small photon number and low sampling rates owing…

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

Boson Sampling represents a promising witness 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 Permanent-of-Gaussians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Ludovico Latmiral

It is known that, by accounting for the multiboson interferences up to a finite order, the output distribution of noisy Boson Sampling, with distinguishability of bosons serving as noise, can be approximately sampled from in a time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Valery Shchesnovich

Boson-sampling is a simplified model for quantum computing that may hold the key to implementing the first ever post-classical quantum computer. Boson-sampling is a non-universal quantum computer that is significantly more straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Bryan T. Gard , Keith R. Motes , Jonathan P. Olson , Peter P. Rohde , Jonathan P. Dowling

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 coherence is a useful resource that is consumed to accomplish several tasks that classical devices are hard to fulfill. Especially, it is considered to be the origin of quantum speedup for many computational algorithms. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Seungbeom Chin , Joonsuk Huh

We study the classical complexity of the exact Boson Sampling problem where the objective is to produce provably correct random samples from a particular quantum mechanical distribution. The computational framework was proposed by Aaronson…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Peter Clifford , Raphaël Clifford

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…

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

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

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

The difficulty of validating large-scale quantum devices, such as Boson Samplers, poses a major challenge for any research program that aims to show quantum advantages over classical hardware. To address this problem, we propose a novel…

Sampling from probability distributions of quantum circuits is a fundamentally and practically important task which can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy using noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In the present work, we examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

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…

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

Identifying the boundary beyond which quantum machines provide a computational advantage over their classical counterparts is a crucial step in charting their usefulness. Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS), in which photons are measured from a…

Photon distinguishability is a key factor limiting quantum interference in photonic devices, directly impacting the performance of protocols such as Boson Sampling and photonic quantum computing. We present a basis-independent framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Emilio Annoni , Stephen C. Wein

Quantum computers are expected to be more efficient in performing certain computations than any classical machine. Unfortunately, the technological challenges associated with building a full-scale quantum computer have not yet allowed the…