Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Interfering trajectories in experimental quantum-enhanced stochastic simulation

  • Farzad Ghafari,
  • Nora Tischler,
  • Carlo Di Franco,
  • Jayne Thompson,
  • Mile Gu,
  • Geoff J. Pryde

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08951-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Quantum devices should allow simulating stochastic processes using less memory than classical counterparts, but only if quantum coherence is maintained through multiple steps. Here, the authors demonstrate a coherence-preserving three-step stochastic simulation using photons.