Boson Sampling is a computational paradigm representing one of the most viable and pursued approaches to demonstrate the regime of quantum advantage. Recent results have shown significant technological leaps in single-photon generation and detection, leading to progressively larger instances of Boson Sampling experiments in different photonic systems. However, a crucial requirement for a fully-fledged platform solving this problem is the capability of implementing large-scale interferometers, that must simultaneously exhibit low losses, high degree of reconfigurability and the realization of arbitrary transformations. In this work, we move a step forward in this direction by demonstrating the adoption of a compact and reconfigurable 3D-integrated platform for photonic Boson Sampling. We perform 3- and 4-photon experiments by using such platform, showing the possibility of programming the circuit to implement a large number of unitary transformations. These results show that such compact and highly-reconfigurable layout can be scaled up to experiments with larger number of photons and modes, and can provide a viable direction for hybrid computing with photonic processors.
Reconfigurable continuously-coupled 3D photonic circuit for Boson Sampling experiments / Hoch, F.; Piacentini, S.; Giordani, T.; Tian, Z. -N.; Iuliano, M.; Esposito, C.; Camillini, A.; Carvacho, G.; Ceccarelli, F.; Spagnolo, N.; Crespi, A.; Sciarrino, F.; Osellame, R.. - In: NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION. - ISSN 2056-6387. - 8:(2022), pp. 1-7. [10.1038/s41534-022-00568-6]
Reconfigurable continuously-coupled 3D photonic circuit for Boson Sampling experiments
Hoch F.;Giordani T.;Esposito C.;Carvacho G.;Spagnolo N.;Sciarrino F.;
2022
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Boson Sampling is a computational paradigm representing one of the most viable and pursued approaches to demonstrate the regime of quantum advantage. Recent results have shown significant technological leaps in single-photon generation and detection, leading to progressively larger instances of Boson Sampling experiments in different photonic systems. However, a crucial requirement for a fully-fledged platform solving this problem is the capability of implementing large-scale interferometers, that must simultaneously exhibit low losses, high degree of reconfigurability and the realization of arbitrary transformations. In this work, we move a step forward in this direction by demonstrating the adoption of a compact and reconfigurable 3D-integrated platform for photonic Boson Sampling. We perform 3- and 4-photon experiments by using such platform, showing the possibility of programming the circuit to implement a large number of unitary transformations. These results show that such compact and highly-reconfigurable layout can be scaled up to experiments with larger number of photons and modes, and can provide a viable direction for hybrid computing with photonic processors.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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