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Variational quantum algorithm for Gaussian discrete solitons and their boson sampling

Quantum Physics 2022-08-31 v4 Machine Learning Optics

Abstract

In the context of quantum information, highly nonlinear regimes, such as those supporting solitons, are marginally investigated. We miss general methods for quantum solitons, although they can act as entanglement generators or as self-organized quantum processors. We develop a computational approach that uses a neural network as a variational ansatz for quantum solitons in an array of waveguides. By training the resulting phase-space quantum machine learning model, we find different soliton solutions varying the number of particles and interaction strength. We consider Gaussian states that enable measuring the degree of entanglement and sampling the probability distribution of many-particle events. We also determine the probability of generating particle pairs and unveil that soliton bound states emit correlated pairs. These results may have a role in boson sampling with nonlinear systems and in quantum processors for entangled nonlinear waves.

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@article{arxiv.2110.12379,
  title  = {Variational quantum algorithm for Gaussian discrete solitons and their boson sampling},
  author = {Claudio Conti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12379},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Minor changes. 21 figures and 20 pages

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