“Quantum machine learning with Adaptive Boson Sampling via post-selection” published in Nature Communications

The implementation of large-scale universal quantum computation represents a challenging and ambitious task on the road to quantum processing of information. In recent years, an intermediate approach has been pursued to demonstrate quantum computational advantage via non-universal computational models. A relevant example for photonic platforms has been provided by the Boson Sampling paradigm and its … Continua a leggere

The ERC Proof-of-Concept POQUB project, awarded under the 2024 Program

The POQUB project,  “PhOtonics QUantum Bernoulli Factory,” led by Fabio Sciarrino as Principal Investigator, has been awarded under the 2024 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/Proof-of-Concept-Grants-2024) POQUB is hosted by Quantum Lab, Department of Physics – Sapienza (https://www.quantumlab.it/), and will also involve the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI) (https://nqsti.it/) for the … Continua a leggere

Fabio Sciarrino at Quantum Computing & Communication Observatory

Fabio Sciarrino, Sapienza Quantum Lab PI, has been invited to a panel discussion on Panel Discussion: Italian Research and Technology Transfer at the broad audience event on Quantum in progress: strategies from revolution to industry dedicated to the different stakeholders organized by the Quantum Computing & Communication Observatory from Politecnico di Milano. In particular he presented the excellence of Italy in the field … Continua a leggere

“Teleportation of a genuine single-rail vacuum-one-photon qubit generated via a quantum dot source” just published in npj Nanophotonics

Quantum state teleportation represents a pillar of quantum information and a milestone on the roadmap towards quantum networks with a large number of nodes. Successful photonic demonstrations of this protocol have been carried out employing different qubit encodings. However, demonstrations in the Fock basis encoding are challenging, due to the impossibility of generating a coherent … Continua a leggere

Fabio Sciarrino at Quantum Computing @ INFN, 2024

Fabio Sciarrino is presenting “Photonics Quantum Technologies @NQSTI for Quantum Computing” at the Quantum Computing @INFN workshop (website: https://agenda.infn.it/event/42801/overview), held in Padova on 29-31 October 2024. The workshop represented an opportunity for the community to come together and receive training, with the objectives of presenting ongoing activities, fostering the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and attracting … Continua a leggere

“Variational approach to photonic quantum circuits via the parameter shift rule”

In the current era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, variational quantum algorithms represent one of the most viable approaches for their application to solve tasks of interest. These algorithms train a parameterized quantum circuit to execute a specific task encoded in a cost function that needs to be minimized using a classical optimizer. In this … Continua a leggere

“Modular Quantum-to-Quantum Bernoulli Factory in an Integrated Photonic Processor” just published in Nature Photonics

Generating and manipulating randomness is essential for numerous information technology applications, and quantum mechanics has been shown to offer distinct advantages in this area. A notable model for randomness manipulation is the Bernoulli factory, which enables the controlled adjustment of the bias in Bernoulli random processes. Initially, this framework was explored entirely within a classical … Continua a leggere