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We explore the possibility of efficient classical simulation of linear optics experiments under the effect of particle losses. Specifically, we investigate the canonical boson sampling scenario in which an $n$-particle Fock input state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Michał Oszmaniec , Daniel J. Brod

Randomized algorithms are crucial subroutines in quantum computing, but the requirement to execute many types of circuits on a real quantum device has been challenging to their extensive implementation. In this study, we propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Shu Kanno , Ikko Hamamura , Rudy Raymond , Qi Gao , Naoki Yamamoto

In previous work, we proposed a method for leveraging efficient classical simulation algorithms to aid in the analysis of large-scale fault tolerant circuits implemented on hypothetical quantum information processors. Here, we extend those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Daniel Puzzuoli , Christopher Granade , Holger Haas , Ben Criger , Easwar Magesan , D. G. Cory

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

Recent results by Harrow et. al. and by Ta-Shma, suggest that quantum computers may have an exponential advantage in solving a wealth of linear algebraic problems, over classical algorithms. Building on the quantum intuition of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Michael Ben-Or , Lior Eldar

Linear optics quantum computing (LOQC) is a promising approach to implementing scalable quantum computation (QC). However, this approach has very demanding physical resource requirements. Recently, Aaronson & Arkhipov showed that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Peter P. Rohde , Timothy C. Ralph

Quantum circuit simulators running on classical computers offer a vital platform for designing, testing, and optimizing quantum algorithms, driving innovation despite limited access to real quantum hardware. However, their scalability is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Gleb Kalachev , Pavel Mosharev , Zuoheng Zou , Pavel Panteleev , Man-Hong Yung

We have recently seen the first plausible claims for quantum advantage using sampling problems such as random circuit sampling and Gaussian boson sampling. The obvious next step is to channel the potential quantum advantage to solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim , Yat Wong , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

Variational quantum algorithms are a class of techniques intended to be used on near-term quantum computers. The goal of these algorithms is to perform large quantum computations by breaking the problem down into a large number of shallow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Ryan Shaffer , Lucas Kocia , Mohan Sarovar

Noise is one of the main obstacles to realizing quantum devices that achieve a quantum computational advantage. A possible approach to minimize the noise effect is to employ shallow-depth quantum circuits since noise typically accumulates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Changhun Oh

Sampling experiments provide a viable route to show quantum advantages of quantum devices over classical computers in well-defined computational tasks. However, quantum devices such as boson samplers are susceptible to various errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Deepesh Singh , Ryan J. Marshman , Nathan Walk , Jens Eisert , Timothy C. Ralph , Austin P. Lund

Boson sampling, a computational task believed to be classically hard to simulate, is expected to hold promise for demonstrating quantum computational advantage using near-term quantum devices. However, noise in experimental implementations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Hyunseok Jeong

Boson sampling is a problem for which quantum devices could prove to go beyond classical computing using only linear optics and photon preparation and counting. While theoretically important, there is a lack of practical applications for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin

We apply numerical optimization and linear algebra algorithms for classical computers to the problem of automatically synthesizing algorithms for quantum computers. Using our framework, we apply several common techniques from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Yuxin Huang , Benjamin E. Grossman-Ponemon , David A. B. Hyde

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

The simulation of time evolution of large quantum systems is a classically challenging and in general intractable task, making it a promising application for quantum computation. A Trotter-Suzuki approximation yields an implementation…

Solving combinatorial optimization problems on near-term quantum devices has gained a lot of attraction in recent years. Currently, most works have focused on single-objective problems, whereas many real-world applications need to consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Linus Ekstrom , Hao Wang , Sebastian Schmitt

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to compute approximate solutions of binary combinatorial problems. We employ a shallow-depth quantum circuit to implement a unitary and Hermitian operator that block-encodes the weighted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Natacha Kuete Meli , Florian Mannel , Jan Lellmann

A broad class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms known as "variational algorithms" have been proposed in the context of quantum simulation, machine learning, and combinatorial optimization as a means of potentially achieving a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Aram Harrow , John Napp

We propose fast and practical quantum-inspired classical algorithms for solving linear systems. Specifically, given sampling and query access to a matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and a vector $b\in\mathbb{R}^m$, we propose classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qian Zuo , Tongyang Li