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| Title |
Photonic Boson Sampling in a Tunable Circuit
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1231440 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Matthew A. Broome, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, Justin Dove, Scott Aaronson, Timothy C. Ralph, Andrew G. White |
| Abstract |
Quantum computers are unnecessary for exponentially efficient computation or simulation if the Extended Church-Turing thesis is correct. The thesis would be strongly contradicted by physical devices that efficiently perform tasks believed to be intractable for classical computers. Such a task is boson sampling: sampling the output distributions of n bosons scattered by some passive, linear unitary process. We tested the central premise of boson sampling, experimentally verifying that three-photon scattering amplitudes are given by the permanents of submatrices generated from a unitary describing a six-mode integrated optical circuit. We find the protocol to be robust, working even with the unavoidable effects of photon loss, non-ideal sources, and imperfect detection. Scaling this to large numbers of photons should be a much simpler task than building a universal quantum computer. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 19% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 81% |
| Scientists | 3 | 19% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 362 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 3% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| China | 3 | <1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | 2% |
| Unknown | 329 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 112 | 31% |
| Researcher | 76 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 23 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 5% |
| Other | 47 | 13% |
| Unknown | 52 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy | 252 | 70% |
| Engineering | 26 | 7% |
| Chemistry | 8 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 16 | 4% |
| Unknown | 50 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 87. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 March 2024.
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#486,425
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#11,280
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#3,443
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#74
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Altmetric has tracked 25,323,244 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 80,803 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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