Superadditive Communication with the Green Machine: A Practical Demonstration of Nonlocality without Entanglement

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Main Authors: Cui, Chaohan, Postlewaite, Jack, Saif, Babak N., Fan, Linran, Guha, Saikat
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Published: 2023
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author Cui, Chaohan
Postlewaite, Jack
Saif, Babak N.
Fan, Linran
Guha, Saikat
author_facet Cui, Chaohan
Postlewaite, Jack
Saif, Babak N.
Fan, Linran
Guha, Saikat
contents Achieving the ultimate Holevo limit of optical communication capacity requires a joint-detection receiver which makes a collective quantum measurement over multiple modulated symbols. Such superadditivity -- a higher communication rate than that achievable by symbol-by-symbol optical detection -- is a special case of the well-known nonlocality without entanglement and has yet to be demonstrated. In this article, we propose and demonstrate a design of joint-detection receivers, the Green Machine, that can achieve superadditivity. We build this receiver and show that its capacity surpasses any symbol-by-symbol receivers in the photon-starved regime with binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK). Our Green Machine receiver can also significantly reduce the transmitter peak power requirement compared with the pulse-position modulation (the conventional modulation format used for deep space laser communication). We further show that the self-referenced phase makes it immune to phase noise, e.g., atmospheric turbulence or platform vibrations.
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spellingShingle Superadditive Communication with the Green Machine: A Practical Demonstration of Nonlocality without Entanglement
Cui, Chaohan
Postlewaite, Jack
Saif, Babak N.
Fan, Linran
Guha, Saikat
Quantum Physics
Optics
Achieving the ultimate Holevo limit of optical communication capacity requires a joint-detection receiver which makes a collective quantum measurement over multiple modulated symbols. Such superadditivity -- a higher communication rate than that achievable by symbol-by-symbol optical detection -- is a special case of the well-known nonlocality without entanglement and has yet to be demonstrated. In this article, we propose and demonstrate a design of joint-detection receivers, the Green Machine, that can achieve superadditivity. We build this receiver and show that its capacity surpasses any symbol-by-symbol receivers in the photon-starved regime with binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK). Our Green Machine receiver can also significantly reduce the transmitter peak power requirement compared with the pulse-position modulation (the conventional modulation format used for deep space laser communication). We further show that the self-referenced phase makes it immune to phase noise, e.g., atmospheric turbulence or platform vibrations.
title Superadditive Communication with the Green Machine: A Practical Demonstration of Nonlocality without Entanglement
topic Quantum Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05889