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arXiv:1311.1622 · Nature Photonics

Experimental validation of photonic boson sampling

Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Marco Bentivegna, Daniel J. Brod, Andrea Crespi, Fulvio Flamini, Sandro Giacomini, Giorgio Milani, Roberta Ramponi, Paolo Mataloni, Roberto Osellame, Ernesto F. Galvão, Fabio Sciarrino

Published Jun 20, 2014• 315 citations
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10.1038/nphoton.2014.135

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