In the context of quantum technologies, the generation and manipulation of single photons
has become a key element for applications such as quantum communication and quantum …

Quantum random sampling is the leading proposal for demonstrating a computational
advantage of quantum computers over classical computers. Recently the first large-scale …

Quantum computers promise to perform certain tasks that are believed to be intractable to
classical computers. Boson sampling is such a task and is considered a strong candidate to …

Growing interest in quantum computing for practical applications has led to a surge in the
availability of programmable machines for executing quantum algorithms,. Present-day …

Graphs have provided an expressive mathematical tool to model quantum-mechanical
devices and systems. In particular, it has been recently discovered that graph theory can be …

Gaussian states have played an important role in the physics of continuous-variable
quantum systems. They are appealing for the experimental ease with which they can be …

Abstract We introduce Strawberry Fields, an open-source quantum programming
architecture for light-based quantum computers, and detail its key features. Built in Python …

Boson sampling is a computational problem that has recently been proposed as a candidate
to obtain an unequivocal quantum computational advantage. The problem consists in …

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is not only a feasible protocol for demonstrating quantum
computational advantage, but also mathematically associated with certain graph-related and …

At the core of quantum photonic information processing and sensing, two major building
pillars are single-photon emitters and single-photon detectors. In this review, we …