An experimental quantum Bernoulli factory
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Rudolph, Terry
Pryde, Geoff J
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There has been a concerted effort to identify problems computable with quantum technology, which are intractable with classical technology or require far fewer resources to compute. Recently, randomness processing in a Bernoulli factory has been identified as one such task. Here, we report two quantum photonic implementations of a Bernoulli factory, one using quantum coherence and single-qubit measurements and the other one using quantum coherence and entangling measurements of two qubits. We show that the former consumes three orders of magnitude fewer resources than the best-known classical method, while entanglement offers a further fivefold reduction. These concepts may provide a means for quantum-enhanced performance in the simulation of stochastic processes and sampling tasks.
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Science Advances
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5
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© 2019 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Classical and physical optics
Data structures and algorithms
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Patel, RB; Rudolph, T; Pryde, GJ, An experimental quantum Bernoulli factory, Science Advances, 2019, 5 (1)