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Raphaël Clifford

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Raphaël Clifford
School of Computer Science
University of Bristol
Merchant Venturers Building
Woodland Road
BRISTOL
BS8 1UB
United Kingdom

Room: 3.15 (MVB)
Email: raphael.clifford AT bristol ac uk
Phone: +44 117 331-5147

Boson Sampling:

Two papers with Peter Clifford on the classical simulation of Boson Sampling:
  • Peter Clifford and Raphaël Clifford. The Classical Complexity of Boson Sampling. Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2018), pages 146-155. [arXiv:1706.01260]
    An algorithm that samples exactly from the Boson Sampling distribution in O(n 2n + poly(m,n)) time, much faster than had previously been thought possible.

  • Peter Clifford and Raphaël Clifford. Faster classical boson sampling. Physica Scripta, 99(6):065121, 2024. [journal] [arXiv:2005.04214]
    An average-case speed running in about O(n · 1.69n) time, thereby raising the problem size needed to demonstrate quantum advantage.

Preprints:

  • Peter Clifford and Raphaël Clifford. Exact Sampling of Permutations with a Fixed Longest Increasing Subsequence, 2026. [arXiv:2606.02263]
    The first polynomial-time exact sampler for uniform permutations of length n whose longest increasing subsequence has prescribed length k, for every 1 ≤ k ≤ n.

Publications:

DBLP also has links to the published versions for most of my papers. For copies of papers not linked from there, please contact me directly.

LEGO model of Escher's Relativity, by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu
LEGO Relativity by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, © A. Lipson 2003
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