Passive Environment-Assisted Quantum Communication

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Autores principales: Voss, Evelyn, Li, Bikun, Wang, Zhaoyou, Jiang, Liang
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Publicado: 2026
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author Voss, Evelyn
Li, Bikun
Wang, Zhaoyou
Jiang, Liang
author_facet Voss, Evelyn
Li, Bikun
Wang, Zhaoyou
Jiang, Liang
contents As quantum information systems mature, efficient and coherent transfer of quantum information through noisy channels becomes increasingly important. We examine how passive environment-assisted quantum communication enhances direct quantum information transfer efficiency. A bosonic pure-loss channel, modeled as transmission through a beam splitter with a vacuum input state at the dark port, has zero quantum capacity when transmissivity is below 50%. Quantum communication through the channel can be enhanced by passive environment assistance, achieved via the selection of an appropriate input state for the ancilla port. Although ideal Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states enable perfect quantum information transmission at arbitrarily small transmissivity, they are challenging to realize experimentally. We therefore explore more experimentally accessible non-Gaussian ancilla states, such as Fock, cat, and squeezed cat states, and numerically determine the optimal encoding and decoding strategies. We also construct analytical schemes that yield high-fidelity transmission and good information rates.
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spellingShingle Passive Environment-Assisted Quantum Communication
Voss, Evelyn
Li, Bikun
Wang, Zhaoyou
Jiang, Liang
Quantum Physics
As quantum information systems mature, efficient and coherent transfer of quantum information through noisy channels becomes increasingly important. We examine how passive environment-assisted quantum communication enhances direct quantum information transfer efficiency. A bosonic pure-loss channel, modeled as transmission through a beam splitter with a vacuum input state at the dark port, has zero quantum capacity when transmissivity is below 50%. Quantum communication through the channel can be enhanced by passive environment assistance, achieved via the selection of an appropriate input state for the ancilla port. Although ideal Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states enable perfect quantum information transmission at arbitrarily small transmissivity, they are challenging to realize experimentally. We therefore explore more experimentally accessible non-Gaussian ancilla states, such as Fock, cat, and squeezed cat states, and numerically determine the optimal encoding and decoding strategies. We also construct analytical schemes that yield high-fidelity transmission and good information rates.
title Passive Environment-Assisted Quantum Communication
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21549