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Main Authors: Piveteau, Amélie, Abbott, Alastair A., Muhammad, Sadiq, Bourennane, Mohamed, Tavakoli, Armin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07907
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author Piveteau, Amélie
Abbott, Alastair A.
Muhammad, Sadiq
Bourennane, Mohamed
Tavakoli, Armin
author_facet Piveteau, Amélie
Abbott, Alastair A.
Muhammad, Sadiq
Bourennane, Mohamed
Tavakoli, Armin
contents We show that weakly entangled states can improve communication over a qubit channel using only separate, interference-free, measurements of individual photons. We introduce a communication task corresponding to the cryptographic primitive known as secret sharing and show that all steerable two-qubit isotropic states provide a quantum advantage in the success rate using only product measurements. Furthermore, we show that such measurements can even reveal communication advantages from noisy partially entangled states that admit no quantum steering. We then go further and consider a stochastic variant of secret sharing based on more sophisticated, yet standard, partial Bell state analysers, and show that this reveals advantages also for a range of unsteerable isotropic states. By preparing polarisation qubits in unsteerable states, we experimentally demonstrate improved success rates of both secret sharing tasks beyond the best entanglement-unassisted qubit protocol. Our results reveal the capability of simple and scalable measurements in entanglement-assisted quantum communication to overcome large amounts of noise.
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spellingShingle Weak entanglement improves quantum communication using only product measurements
Piveteau, Amélie
Abbott, Alastair A.
Muhammad, Sadiq
Bourennane, Mohamed
Tavakoli, Armin
Quantum Physics
We show that weakly entangled states can improve communication over a qubit channel using only separate, interference-free, measurements of individual photons. We introduce a communication task corresponding to the cryptographic primitive known as secret sharing and show that all steerable two-qubit isotropic states provide a quantum advantage in the success rate using only product measurements. Furthermore, we show that such measurements can even reveal communication advantages from noisy partially entangled states that admit no quantum steering. We then go further and consider a stochastic variant of secret sharing based on more sophisticated, yet standard, partial Bell state analysers, and show that this reveals advantages also for a range of unsteerable isotropic states. By preparing polarisation qubits in unsteerable states, we experimentally demonstrate improved success rates of both secret sharing tasks beyond the best entanglement-unassisted qubit protocol. Our results reveal the capability of simple and scalable measurements in entanglement-assisted quantum communication to overcome large amounts of noise.
title Weak entanglement improves quantum communication using only product measurements
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07907