Nature Physics, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03370-9
Bosonic quantum states can be understood as superpositions of eigenstates with fixed numbers of bosons. Now experiments show that mapping this representation to classical wave propagation offers an intuitive way to manipulate large quantum states.
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