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R. García-Patrón

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Boson Sampling in Low-depth Optical Systems

Optical losses are the main obstacle to demonstrating a quantum advantage via boson sampling without leaving open the possibility of classical spoofing. We propose a method for generating low-depth optical circuits suitable for boson sampling with very high efficiencies. Our circuits require only a constant number of optical components (namely three) to implement an optical transformation suitable for demonstrating a quantum advantage. Consequently, our proposal has a constant optical loss regardless of the number of optical modes. We argue that sampling from our family of circuits is computationally hard by providing numerical evidence that our family of circuits converges to that of the original boson sampling proposal in the limit of large optical systems. Our work opens a new route to demonstrate an optical quantum advantage.

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Divergence-free approach for obtaining decompositions of quantum-optical processes

Operator-sum representations of quantum channels can be obtained by applying the channel to one subsystem of a maximally entangled state and deploying the channel-state isomorphism. However, for continuous-variable systems, such schemes contain natural divergences since the maximally entangled state is ill-defined. We introduce a method that avoids such divergences by utilizing finitely entangled (squeezed) states and then taking the limit of arbitrary large squeezing. Using this method we derive an operator-sum representation for all single-mode bosonic Gaussian channels where a unique feature is that both quantum-limited and noisy channels are treated on an equal footing. This technique facilitates a proof that the rank-one Kraus decomposition for Gaussian channels at its respective entanglement-breaking thresholds, obtained in the overcomplete coherent state basis, is unique. The methods could have applications to simulation of continuous-variable channels.

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Experimental Proof of Quantum Nonlocality without Squeezing

It is shown that the ensemble $\{p (α),|α>|α^*>\}$ where $p (α)$ is a Gaussian distribution of finite variance and $| α>$ is a coherent state can be better discriminated with an entangled measurement than with any local strategy supplemented by classical communication. Although this ensemble consists of products of quasi-classical states, it exhibits some quantum nonlocality. This remarkable effect is demonstrated experimentally by implementing the optimal local strategy together with a joint nonlocal strategy that yields a higher fidelity.

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