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Volume 127, Issue 18

29 October 2021
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A 144-mode photonic circuit for Gaussian boson sampling. Two-mode squeezed-state photons (lower left) are phase locked (yellow) and directed to single-photon detectors (left and right sides). Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Phase-Programmable Gaussian Boson Sampling Using Stimulated Squeezed Light
Han-Sen Zhong et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 180502 (2021)

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