Entanglement can Completely Defeat Quantum Noise

We describe two quantum channels that individually cannot send any classical information without some chance of decoding error. But together a single use of each channel can send quantum information perfectly reliably. This proves that the zero-error classical capacity exhibits superactivation, the...

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Autores: Chen, Jianxin, Cubitt, Toby S., Harrow, Aram W., Smith, Graeme
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44448
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44448
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:530.145
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2210.23 Teoría Cuántica
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Resumo:We describe two quantum channels that individually cannot send any classical information without some chance of decoding error. But together a single use of each channel can send quantum information perfectly reliably. This proves that the zero-error classical capacity exhibits superactivation, the extreme form of the superadditivity phenomenon in which entangled inputs allow communication over zerocapacity channels. But our result is stronger still, as it even allows zero-error quantum communication when the two channels are combined. Thus our result shows a new remarkable way in which entanglement across two systems can be used to resist noise, in this case perfectly. We also show a new form of superactivation by entanglement shared between sender and receiver.