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Updated · Quantum Zeitgeist · Sep 5
Chinese Team Reports Jiuzhang 4.0 Injected 1,024 Squeezed States Into 8,176-Mode Processor
Updated
Updated · Quantum Zeitgeist · Sep 5

Chinese Team Reports Jiuzhang 4.0 Injected 1,024 Squeezed States Into 8,176-Mode Processor

2 articles · Updated · Quantum Zeitgeist · Sep 5

Summary

  • Jiuzhang 4.0 was reported in Nature on May 13 with 1,024 squeezed states fed into an 8,176-mode photonic processor, marking the latest iteration of China’s boson-sampling machine.
  • The upgrade was designed to benchmark against spoofing algorithms that had weakened earlier Jiuzhang advantage claims after classical methods cut supposed billion-year tasks to days and later mimicked many early experiments.
  • Unlike superconducting or trapped-ion systems, the photonic platform computes with light in programmable waveguide chips, with measurement central to the design and optical loss—not electrical noise—the main engineering constraint.
  • The result still sits in the narrow boson-sampling category rather than universal quantum computing, and no photonic platform has yet published a peer-reviewed logical qubit despite commercial roadmaps targeting the late 2020s.

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