Questions tagged [photonics]
It is the branch of physics and engineering concerned with the properties and transmission of photons. Use this tag for those questions about photonics which are relevant to quantum computing.
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Do any educational quantum computing toys or devices exist?
Question inspired by this article from IEEE Spectrum on blocks containing different polarization filters for use in classrooms, and my previous question on representing the three-polarizing-filter ...
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Analyzing the three-polarizing-filter experiment as a quantum circuit
In the three-polarizing-filter experiment, two orthogonal polarizing filters block all light but then allow some amount when a third polarizing filter is placed oriented at a 45 degree angle between ...
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What about BosonSampling can be publicly verified?
Boson Sampling, sometimes stylized as BosonSampling, is an attractive candidate problem to establish quantum supremacy; the engineering problems appear more surmountable than those associated with a ...
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What does negative probability represent?
"Negative energies and probabilities should not be considered as nonsense. They are well-defined concepts mathematically, like a negative of money." -Paul Dirac
The abstract from Photon-phonon-photon ...
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Photonic Circuit Idea (Does this already exist?)
I have had a few ideas for circuits that I would like to get feedback on (do such things already exist, what utility they serve, etc).
Any suggestions on how I might graphically render these?
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Is it possible to “calculate” the absolute value of a permanent using Boson Sampling?
In boson sampling, if we start with 1 photon in each of the first $M$ modes of an interferometer, the probability of detecting 1 photon in each output mode is: $|\textrm{Perm}(A)|^2$, where the ...
