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Boson sampling on a chip

Small-scale quantum computers made from an array of interconnected waveguides on a glass chip can now perform a task that is considered hard to undertake on a large scale by classical means.

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Figure 1: The boson-sampling problem.

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Ralph, T. Boson sampling on a chip. Nature Photon 7, 514–515 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.175

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