News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Cirq: A quantum programming library in Python by only_walk on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:19PM (#17563533)
Huh. I've read about boson sampling, but didn't realise you could construct a universal quantum circuit model around it. Interesting.
Re:Cirq: A quantum programming library in Python by vtomole on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:31AM (#17564113)
Boson sampling is not universal. On the other hand, it could be used to demonstrate a quantum advantage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3245.