Integrated multimode interferometers with arbitrary designs for photonic boson sampling

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 545-549

  Crespi, Andrea ^a,b   Osellame, Roberto ^a,b   Ramponi, Roberta ^a,b   Brod, Daniel J ^c   Galvão, Ernesto F ^c   Spagnolo, Nicolò ^d   Vitelli, Chiara ^d,e   Maiorino, Enrico ^d   Mataloni, Paolo ^d   Sciarrino, Fabio ^d  

^a IFN CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGES; HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENT; MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETER; MULTIPHOTON INTERFERENCE; MULTIPORT INTERFEROMETERS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL PREDICTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MANUFACTURING; UNITARY TRANSFORMATIONS;

BOSONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 84879611115     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.112     Document Type: Article

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