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High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling

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Date
06/2017
Author
Wang, Hui
He, Yu
Li, Yu-Huai
Su, Zu-En
Li, Bo
Huang, He-Liang
Ding, Xing
Chen, Ming-Cheng
Liu, Chang
Qin, Jian
Li, Jin-Peng
He, Yu-Ming
Schneider, Christian
Kemp, Martin
Peng, Cheng-Zhi
Höfling, Sven
Lu, Chao-Yang
Pan, Jian-Wei
Keywords
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QC Physics
NDAS
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Abstract
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 to the inefficiencies of the single-photon sources and multi-port optical interferometers. Here, we develop two central components for high-performance boson sampling: robust multi-photon interferometers with 99% transmission rate, and actively demultiplexed single-photon sources from a quantum-dot-micropillar with simultaneously high efficiency, purity and indistinguishability. We implement and validate three-, four-, and five-photon boson sampling, and achieve sampling rates of 4.96 kHz, 151 Hz, and 4 Hz, respectively, which are over 24,000 times faster than the previous experiments. Our architecture is feasible to be scaled up to larger number of photons and with higher rate to race against classical computers, and might provide experimental evidence against the Extended Church-Turing Thesis.
Citation
Wang , H , He , Y , Li , Y-H , Su , Z-E , Li , B , Huang , H-L , Ding , X , Chen , M-C , Liu , C , Qin , J , Li , J-P , He , Y-M , Schneider , C , Kemp , M , Peng , C-Z , Höfling , S , Lu , C-Y & Pan , J-W 2017 , ' High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling ' Nature Photonics , vol 11 , no. 6 , pp. 361-365 . DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2017.63
Publication
Nature Photonics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.63
ISSN
1749-4885
Type
Journal article
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© 2017 the Authors. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at www.nature.com / https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.63
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Fundamental Research Program, and the State of Bavaria.
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11981
https://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v11/n6/full/nphoton.2017.63.html#supplementary-information

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