The Research group of Dr. Auditya Sharma, Department of Physics and Dr. Ankur Raina, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science developed a method to simulate Quantum mechanical phenomenon using Boson Sampling. Quantum simulation in its current state faces experimental overhead in terms of physical space and cooling. The authors propose boson sampling as an alternative compact synthetic platform performing at room temperature. Identifying the capability of estimating matrix permanents, the authors explore the applicability of boson sampling for tackling the dynamics of quantum systems without having access to information about the full state vector. By mapping the time-evolution unitary of a Hamiltonian onto an interferometer via continuous-variable gate decompositions, they present proof-of-principle results of localization characteristics of a single particle. The computational results obtained using boson sampling are in complete agreement with the dynamical and static results of noninteracting tight-binding systems obtained using conventional numerical calculations. The main work was carried out by Anuprita Kulkarni as part of her MS thesis. More details at journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.111.032622
