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Nature Photonics

High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling

Hui Wang, Yu He, Yu-Huai Li, Zu-En Su, Bo Li, He-Liang Huang, Xing Ding, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chang Liu, Jian Qin, Jin-Peng Li, Yuming He, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Sven Höfling, Chao‐Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan

Published May 1, 2017• 421 citations
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10.1038/nphoton.2017.63

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