• Opto-Electronic Engineering
  • Vol. 44, Issue 5, 565 (2017)
[in Chinese]
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[in Chinese]. Quantum computers achieve new breakthroughs[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2017, 44(5): 565 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

The latest progresses about optical quantum computer were announced by Prof. Pan Jianwei team at University of Science and Technology of China. They have achieved ten photon entanglement, and built a quantum simulator for high-efficiency multiphoton boson sam-pling.Bose sampling can be used for demonstrating quan-tum supremacy. The researchers have developed 9×9 mode multiphoton interferometers with 99% transmis-sion rate and actively demultiplexed single-photon sources based on a quantum dot–micropillar with sim-ultaneously high efficiency, purity and indistinguishabil-ity. The three-photon, four-photon and five-photon Bose samples were tested and verified. The sampling rates were 4.96 kHz, 151 Hz and 4 Hz, respectively, which are over 24000 times faster than previous experiments.This is the first single photon-based quantum photonic machines which are provably faster for the bos-on-sampling task than the early classical computer, lay-ing a foundation for the "quantum supremacy ".