Nature Physics, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03086-2
Finding a classical description of a quantum state can require resource-intensive tomography protocols. It has now been shown that, for bosonic systems, tomography is extremely inefficient in general, but can be done efficiently for some useful states.
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