Fig. 2. Experimental validation of the GBS device.
Each panel compares experimentally obtained sample probabilities, against those calculated from the ground truth (r, T), for up to six-photon events in a 16-mode state. A total of 84.1 × 106 samples were collected and divided according to their total photon number N and further split according to the collision pattern, from no collision (no more than one photon detected per PNR) to collisions of different densities (more than one photon per PNR). The overall fidelity (F) and TVD to simulations for each photon-number event is shown below. Further analysis of TVD for classical adversaries in the 16-mode GBS instance can be found in the Supplementary Information.