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Quantum Expert Area

Physical and Mathematical background

Quantum Architectures

Quantum Architectures

Technical overview of the quantum architectures that power MerLin's quantum layers.

InterferometersCircuitsParametersFock statesEntanglement
SLOS

SLOS

Deep dive into the framework that efficiently solves the boson sampling problem.

SLOSBoson SamplingStrong Simulation

Algorithm Design

Internal Design

Internal Design

Overview of key internal design elements that underpin MerLin's simulation pipeline and advanced workflows.

Partial DetectorsFeed forwardSLOS

Experiment support

Experiment Support

Experiment Support

How to have full control of the measurement of all the optical modes.

Perceval ExperimentQuantumLayerFeatureMapNoise

More on the QuantumBridge

QuantumBridge

QuantumBridge

Internal workings of the Quantum Bridge for advanced users who want to understand the QLOQ (Qubit Logic on Qudits) encoding scheme and customize their qubit-to-photonic mappings.

Quantum_bridgeEncodingPerformanceBest Practices

Stronger Background on Algorithms

Kernels

Kernels

Overview of the implementation of MerLin's photonic kernel stack.

KernelsUnitary ConstructionSLOSArchitecture Overview
Partial Measurement

Partial Measurement

Measurement strategy that measures only a subset of modes and keeps the remaining modes as quantum state vectors.

Partial MeasurementMeasurementStrategy

Quantum Expert Area Pages

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