Classical simulation and model concentration in passive linear optics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24728v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:56:55 GMT
• Title: Classical simulation and model concentration in passive linear optics
• Abstract summary: We develop a representation-theoretic framework for moments of random passive linear-optical circuits.<n>We show that concentration is governed by the misalignment of the projections into irreducible representations of the input state and the observable.<n>We identify Fock-state inputs and observables that appear to evade exponential concentration while retaining a suppressedly large signal component.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Passive linear optics is a restricted model of quantum computation, with complexity-theoretic evidence of quantum advantage for sampling tasks and low losses that make it attractive for near-term algorithms. In qubit architectures, a body of work has revealed a close connection between barren plateaus and classical simulability. Whether an analogous tradeoff exists for bosonic systems remains largely unexplored. Building on a recently developed representation-theoretic framework for moments of random passive linear-optical circuits, we characterize the concentration of expectation values for relevant families of particle-number-preserving observables by evaluating their projections into irreducible representations of the unitary group and analyzing their asymptotic scaling. We show that concentration is governed by the misalignment of the projections into irreducible representations of the input state and the observable, giving a unified representation-theoretic interpretation of generalized entanglement and locality in the bosonic setting. We further relate these concentration properties to existing classical simulation techniques, identifying broad classes of trainable observables that admit efficient classical simulation. Conversely, we identify Fock-state inputs and observables that appear to evade exponential concentration while retaining a polynomially large signal component not accessible to known efficient classical simulation methods. The separation is only partial: most of the signal remains classically tractable, and the residual part, while not exponentially suppressed, is small enough that a truncation serves as a classical surrogate with polynomially small error. Our framework nonetheless provides a systematic route for searching for regimes that unambiguously combine the absence of exponential concentration and lies beyond known efficient classical simulation methods.

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