Boson samplers offering promise for new kinds of computing devices
Friday, December 21, 2012 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Separate teams working on boson samplers report progress in separate papers uploaded to the preprint server arXiv and in the journal Science. Each relate the progress being made in developing a quantum version of a Victorian era Galton board – where balls are dropped across a peg board resulting in the representation of a binomial distribution at the bottom.