Time-bin-encoded boson sampling with a single-photon device

Yu He; X. Ding; H. -L. Huang; J. Qin; C. Wang; S. Unsleber; C. Chen; H. Wang; Y. -M. He; X. -L. Wang; W. -J. Zhang; S. -J. Chen; C. Schneider; M. Kamp; L. -X. You; Z. Wang; Sven Höfling; Chao-Yang Lu; Jian-Wei Pan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.190501

Time-bin-encoded boson sampling with a single-photon device

Yu He, X. Ding, H. -L. Huang, J. Qin, C. Wang, S. Unsleber, C. Chen, H. Wang, Y. -M. He, X. -L. Wang, W. -J. Zhang, S. -J. Chen, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, L. -X. You, Z. Wang, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan

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Boson sampling is a problem strongly believed to be intractable for classical computers, but can be naturally solved on a specialized photonic quantum simulator. Here, we implement the first time-bin-encoded boson sampling using a highly indistinguishable (∼94%) single-photon source based on a single quantum-dot-micropillar device. The protocol requires only one single-photon source, two detectors, and a loop-based interferometer for an arbitrary number of photons. The single-photon pulse train is time-bin encoded and deterministically injected into an electrically programmable multimode network. The observed three- and four-photon boson sampling rates are 18.8 and 0.2 Hz, respectively, which are more than 100 times faster than previous experiments based on parametric down-conversion.

Original language	English
Article number	190501
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	19
Early online date	10 May 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.190501
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2017

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He, Y., Ding, X., Huang, H. .-L., Qin, J., Wang, C., Unsleber, S., Chen, C., Wang, H., He, Y. .-M., Wang, X. .-L., Zhang, W. .-J., Chen, S. .-J., Schneider, C., Kamp, M., You, L. .-X., Wang, Z., Höfling, S., Lu, C.-Y., & Pan, J.-W. (2017). Time-bin-encoded boson sampling with a single-photon device. Physical Review Letters, 118(19), Article 190501 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.190501

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Time-bin-encoded boson sampling with a single-photon device

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