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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Multi-photon quantum boson-sampling machines

Chao‐Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We develop single-photon sources that simultaneously combines high purity, efficiency, and indistinguishability. We demonstrate entanglement among ten single photons. We construct high-performance multi-photon boson sampling machines to race against classical computers to reach the goal of quantum computational supremacy.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2018.stu3a.2

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