Measuring the quality of boson samplers in the sparse regime

Authors :: Chao-Yang Lu
Hui Wang
Jian Qin
Jian-Wei Pan
Xiang You
Jelmer J. Renema
Complex Photonic Systems
MESA+ Institute
Source :: Frontiers in Optics 2020: Laser Science, Frontiers in Optics 2020
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Optica Publishing Group, 2020.
Abstract: We show a method for assessing the quality of photonic quantum interference (boson sampling) in the regime of fewer samples than outcomes. We present an error budget for a state of the art boson sampler.