Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lougovski, P.
• Uskov, D. B.

Titel

Channel-capacity gain in entanglement-assisted communication protocols based exclusively on linear optics, single-photon inputs, and coincidence photon counting

Ist Teil von

• Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2015-08, Vol.92 (2), Article 022303

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society (APS)

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Entanglement can effectively increase communication channel capacity as evidenced by dense coding that predicts a capacity gain of 1 bit when compared to entanglement-free protocols. However, dense coding relies on Bell states and when implemented using photons the capacity gain is bounded by 0.585 bits due to one's inability to discriminate between the four optically encoded Bell states. In this research we study the following question: Are there alternative entanglement-assisted protocols that rely only on linear optics, coincidence photon counting, and separable single-photon input states and at the same time provide a greater capacity gain than 0.585 bits? In this study, we show that besides the Bell states there is a class of bipartite four-mode two-photon entangled states that facilitate an increase in channel capacity. We also discuss how the proposed scheme can be generalized to the case of two-photon N-mode entangled states for N=6,8.