Tensor network states in time-bin quantum optics
Michael Lubasch, Antonio A. Valido, Jelmer J. Renema, W. S. Kolthammer, Dieter Jaksch, M. S. Kim, Ian A. Walmsley, Raúl García−Patrón · Physical Review A · 2018
The current shift in the quantum optics community towards experiments with many modes and photons necessitates new classical simulation techniques that efficiently encode many-body quantum correlations and go beyond the usual phase-space formulation. To address this pressing demand we formulate linear quantum optics in the language of tensor network states. We extensively analyze the quantum and classical correlations of time-bin interference in a single fiber loop. We then generalize our results to more complex time-bin quantum setups and identify different classes of architectures for high-complexity and low-overhead boson sampling experiments.