Boson sampling

Boson sampling is a computational task particularly friendly to quantum computers as opposed to classical computers. As explained by Philip Ball, it "entails calculating the probability distribution of many bosons — a category of fundamental particle that includes photons — whose quantum waves interfere with one another in a way that essentially randomizes the position of the particles", thus generating "an equation in many unknowns."

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