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It is important to know noise levels of boson sampling in order to cautiously demonstrate the quantum computational advantage or realize certain tasks. Based on those statistical benchmark methods such as the correlators and clouds, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yang Ji , Yongjin Ye , Qiao Wang , Shi Wang , Jie Hou , Yongzheng Wu , Zijian Wang , Bo Jiang

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

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a prominent candidate for the experimental demonstration of quantum advantage. However, while the current implementations of GBS are unavoidably subject to noise, the robustness of the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Hyunseok Jeong

Recent claims of achieving exponential quantum advantage have attracted attention to Gaussian boson sampling (GBS), a potential application of which is dense subgraph finding. We investigate the effects of sources of error including loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Naomi R. Solomons , Oliver F. Thomas , Dara P. S. McCutcheon

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) provides a route toward demonstrating quantum computational advantage. However, optical loss, which reduces the entanglement in the system, can render GBS results classically simulable. We propose a nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Yukuan Zhao , Xiao-Ye Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Gaussian Boson Sampling is a model of photonic quantum computing where single-mode squeezed states are sent through linear-optical interferometers and measured using single-photon detectors. In this work, we employ a recent exact sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Brajesh Gupt , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nicolás Quesada , Thomas R. Bromley

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a quantum computing concept based on drawing samples from a multimode nonclassical Gaussian state using photon-number resolving detectors. It was initially posed as a near-term approach aiming to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 S. Sempere-Llagostera , R. B. Patel , I. A. Walmsley , W. S. Kolthammer

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) have shown advantages over classical methods for performing some specific sampling tasks. To fully harness the computational power of GBS, there has been great interest in identifying their practical…

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

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…

Gaussian boson sampling is a promising candidate for showing experimental quantum advantage. While there is evidence that noiseless Gaussian boson sampling is hard to efficiently simulate using a classical computer, the current Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Changhun Oh , Minzhao Liu , Yuri Alexeev , Bill Fefferman , Liang Jiang

We present a variation of a quantum algorithm for the machine learning task of classification with graph-structured data. The algorithm implements a feature extraction strategy that is based on Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) a near term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Amanuel Anteneh , Olivier Pfister

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is capable of solving certain classes of graph problems owing to the samples produced by such a device having a connection to the hafnian matrix function. In particular, a GBS device has been shown to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ewan Mer , Zhenghao Li , Shang Yu , Ian A. Walmsley , Raj B. Patel

A growing cohort of experimental linear photonic networks implementing Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) have now claimed quantum advantage. However, many open questions remain on how to effectively verify these experimental results, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Alexander S. Dellios , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

Boson Sampling is a task that is conjectured to be computationally hard for a classical computer, but which can be efficiently solved by linear-optical interferometers with Fock state inputs. Significant advances have been reported in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Nicolò Spagnolo , Daniel J. Brod , Ernesto F. Galvão , Fabio Sciarrino

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

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

The continuous variable quantum computing platform constitutes a promising candidate for realizing quantum advantage, as exemplified in Gaussian Boson Sampling. While noise in the experiments makes the computation attainable for classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Jonas Vinther , Michael James Kastoryano

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a near-term platform for photonic quantum computing. Applications have been developed which rely on directly programming GBS devices, but the ability to train and optimize circuits has been a key missing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Leonardo Banchi , Nicolás Quesada , Juan Miguel Arrazola

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

A Gaussian boson sampler (GBS) is a special-purpose quantum computer that can be practically realized at large scale in optics. Here we report on experiments in which we used a frequency-multiplexed GBS with $>400$ modes as the reservoir in…