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Toward “quantum supremacy” with photons

Chao‐Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We develop single-photon sources that simultaneously combines high purity, efficiency, and indistinguishability. We demonstrate entanglement among 12 single photons. We construct high-performance multi-photon boson sampling machines to race against classical computers.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2019.f3a.1

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