Beating the channel capacity limit for linear photonic superdense coding

Details Beating the channel capacity limit for linear photonic superdense coding Beating the channel capacity limit for linear photonic superdense coding

2010-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/1009.5128v1

Nature Phys. 4, 282 (2008)

Physics

Quantum Physics

Letter: 6 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary Information: 4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphys919

Dense coding is arguably the protocol that launched the field of quantum communication. Today, however, more than a decade after its initial experimental realization, the channel capacity remains fundamentally limited as conceived for photons using linear elements. Bob can only send to Alice three of four potential messages owing to the impossibility of carrying out the deterministic discrimination of all four Bell states with linear optics, reducing the attainable channel capacity from 2 to log_2 3 \approx 1.585 bits. However, entanglement in an extra degree of freedom enables the complete and deterministic discrimination of all Bell states. Using pairs of photons simultaneously entangled in spin and orbital angular momentum, we demonstrate the quantum advantage of the ancillary entanglement. In particular, we describe a dense-coding experiment with the largest reported channel capacity and, to our knowledge, the first to break the conventional linear-optics threshold. Our encoding is suited for quantum communication without alignment and satellite communication.

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