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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Universal Linear Optics: An implementation of Boson Sampling on a Fully Reconfigurable Circuit

Christopher Harrold, Jacques Carolan, Chris Sparrow, Nicholas J. Russell, Joshua W. Silverstone, Graham D. Marshall, Mark G. Thompson, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Anthony Laing, Enrique Martín-López, Peter Shadbolt, Nobuyuki Matsuda, Manabu Oguma, Mikitaka Itoh, Toshikazu Hashimoto

Published Mar 17, 2016• 0 citations
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