Performance of entanglement-assisted quantum codes with noisy ebits over asymmetric and memory channels

Entanglement-assisted quantum error correction codes(EAQECCs)play an important role in quantum communications with noise.Such a scheme can use arbitrary classical linear code to transmit qubits over noisy quantum channels by consuming some ebits between the sender(Alice)and the receiver(Bob).It is usually assumed that the preshared ebits of Bob are error free.However,noise on these ebits is unavoidable in many cases.In this work,we evaluate the performance of EAQECCs with noisy ebits over asymmetric quantum channels and quantum channels with memory by computing the exact entanglement fidelity of several EAQECCs.We consider asymmetric errors in both qubits and ebits and show that the performance of EAQECCs in entanglement fidelity gets improved for qubits and ebits over asymmetric channels.In quantum memory channels,we compute the entanglement fidelity of several EAQECCs over Markovian quantum memory channels and show that the performance of EAQECCs is lowered down by the channel memory.Furthermore,we show that the performance of EAQECCs is diverse when the error probabilities of qubits and ebits are different.In both asymmetric and memory quantum channels,we show that the performance of EAQECCs is improved largely when the error probability of ebits is reasonably smaller than that of qubits.

Entanglement-enhanced classical communication through an amplitude-damping channel

We consider the problem of trying to send a single classical bit through an amplitude-damping channel when two transmissions through the channel are available as a resource. It is demonstrated that two entangled transmissions can enhance the receiver＇s capability of making a correct inference under certain conditions compared with two product-state transmissions.

Protecting the entanglement of two-qubit over quantum channels with memory via weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal

Based on the quantum technique of the weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal(WMR),we propose a scheme to protect entanglement for an entangled two-qubit pure state from four typical quantum noise channels with memory,i.e.,the amplitude damping channel,the phase damping channel,the bit flip channel,and the depolarizing channel.For a given initial state |Ψ>=a |00>+d|11>,it is found that the WMR operation indeed helps to protect entanglement from the above four quantum channels with memory,and the protection effect of WMR scheme is better when the coefficient a is small.For the other initial state |φ>=b|01>+c|10>,the effect of the protection scheme is the same regardless of the coefficient b and the WMR operation can protect entanglement in the amplitude damping channel with memory.Moreover,the protection of entanglement in quantum noise channels without memory in contrast to the results of the channels with memory is more effective.For |Ψ> or |φ>,we also find that the memory parameters play a significant role in the suppression of entanglement sudden death and the initial entanglement can be drastically amplified.Another more important result is that the relationship between the concurrence,the memory parameter,the weak measurement strength,and quantum measurement reversal strength is found through calculation and discussion.It provides a strong basis for the system to maintain maximum entanglement in the nosie channel.

Entropy variances of pure coherent states in the diffusion channel

Using the operator correspondence of the real and fictious modes in the thermo entangled state representation, wesolve the quantum master equation describing the diffusion channel and obtain the Kraus operator-sum representation ofits analytical solution. we find that the pure coherent states evolve into the new mixed thermal superposed states in thediffusion channel. Also, we investigate the statistical properties of the initial coherent states and their entropy evolutions inthe diffusion channel, and find that the entropy evolutions are only related to the decay time and without the amplitudes ofthe initial coherent states.

Entanglement-enhanced classical communication through generalized amplitude damping channel

The problem of sending a single classical bit through a generalized amplitude damping channel is considered. When two transmissions through the channel arc available as a resource, we find that two entangled transmissions can enhance the capability of receiver＇s judging information correctly under certain conditions compared with two productstate transmissions. In addition, we find a special case in which the two entangled transmissions can always make a classical bit more effectively disable the noise influence.

Properties on the distant distribution of entanglement for arbitrary two-qubit pure states via noisy quantum channels

This paper investigates the change of entanglement for transmitting an arbitrarily entangled two-qubit pure state via one of three typical kinds of noisy quantum channels： amplitude damping quantum channel, phase damping quantum channel and depolarizing quantum channel. It finds, in all these three cases, that the output distant entanglement （measured by concurrence） reduces proportionately with respect to its initial amount, and the decaying ratio is determined only by the noisy characteristics of quantum channels and independent of the form of initial input state.

Dependence of Entanglement on Initial States under Amplitude Damping Channel in Non-Inertial Frames

Under amplitude damping channel, the dependence of the entanglement on the initial states and , which reduce to four orthogonal Bell states if we take the parameter of states are investigated. We find that the entanglements for different initial states will decay along different curves even with the same acceleration and parame-ter of the states. We note that, in an inertial frame, the sudden death of the entanglement for will occur if , while it will not take place for for any α. We also show that the possible range of the sudden death of the entanglement for is larger than that for . There exist two groups of Bell state here we can’t distinguish only by concurrence.

Lecture notes on quantum entanglement:From stabilizer states to stabilizer channels

We study mathematical,physical and computational aspects of the stabilizer formalism arising in quantum information and quantum computation.The measurement process of Pauli observables with its algorithm is given.It is shown that to detect genuine entanglement we need a full set of stabilizer generators and the stabilizer witness is coarser than the GHZ(Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger)witness.We discuss stabilizer codes and construct a stabilizer code from a given linear code.We also discuss quantum error correction,error recovery criteria and syndrome extraction.The symplectic structure of the stabilizer formalism is established and it is shown that any stabilizer code is unitarily equivalent to a trivial code.The structure of graph codes as stabilizer codes is identified by obtaining the respective stabilizer generators.The distance of embeddable stabilizer codes in lattices is obtained.We discuss the Knill-Gottesman theorem,tableau representation and frame representation.The runtime of simulating stabilizer gates is obtained by applying stabilizer matrices.Furthermore,an algorithm for updating global phases is given.Resolution of quantum channels into stabilizer channels is shown.We discuss capacity achieving codes to obtain the capacity of the quantum erasure channel.Finally,we discuss the shadow tomography problem and an algorithm for constructing classical shadow is given.

A novel quantum information hiding protocol based on entanglement swapping of high-level Bell states

Using entanglement swapping of high-level Bell states, we first derive a covert layer between the secret message and the possible output results of the entanglement swapping between any two generalized Bell states, and then propose a novel high-efficiency quantum information hiding protocol based on the covert layer. In the proposed scheme, a covert channel can be built up under the cover of a high-level quantum secure direct communication （QSDC） channel for securely transmitting secret messages without consuming any auxiliary quantum state or any extra communication resource. It is shown that this protocol not only has a high embedding efficiency but also achieves a good imperceptibility as well as a high security.

Entanglement Swapping and Concentration in Multi-Pair Bose-Einstein Condensates

We propose a scheme of entanglement swapping and concentration in a system consisting of multi-pair entangled trapped Bose-Einstein condensates （BECs）. In this scheme, entanglement swapping is accomplished by using interference-pattern joint measurements and detecting the total number of condensed atoms leaking out of relevant traps while entanglement concentration is realized by controlling inter-atomic nonlinear and tunnelling interactions. Three- and four-palr BEC schemes are investigated in detail. It is found that with the increasing number of the entangled pairs, the region of entanglement concentration is broadened and the amount of concentrated entanglement is enhanced.

Light and Entanglement Velocities for the Electron and the Proton in Minkowskian Space Require Surface Areas that Approximate the Human Cerebrum: Implications for Excess Correlations

The distinctions between locality and non-locality as well as causality and excess correlation may be related to coupling between increments of space-time or to the total space-time within the universe as a unit. The most likely candidates for the latter are the proton and the electron when related by Minkowski’s space-time. When two velocities: light in a vacuum for locality and the “entanglement” velocity based upon parameters that define the universe for non-locality, are considered the two times required to produce identities for the -v2t2 components are frequencies whose energies approximate the neutral hydrogen line (primarily associated with shifts in electron spin direction) and the mass equivalence of a proton. The values for the additional three spatial dimensions required to produce a solution whose square root is not imaginary and greater than zero are within the domains of the surface areas of the human cerebrum. Detailed calculations converge to show that the proportions of energy that represent the electron’s Compton energy and the proton’s mass equivalent may be central to the condition of excess correlation within the cerebral volume. Proton channels within the neuronal cell plasma membranes whose pH-dependent specific currents produce the required magnetic field strengths could be the physical substrates by which excess correlations between brain activities of human subjects separated by non-local distances might occur. If protons are considered as the basic Eddington (number) units of the universe then Mach’s principle that any component of the universe is determined by all of its components may be testable empirically.

Protected simultaneous quantum remote state preparation scheme by weak and reversal measurements in noisy environments

We discuss a quantum remote state preparation protocol by which two parties, Alice and Candy, prepare a single-qubit and a two-qubit state, respectively, at the site of the receiver Bob. The single-qubit state is known to Alice while the two-qubit state which is a non-maximally entangled Bell state is known to Candy. The three parties are connected through a single entangled state which acts as a quantum channel. We first describe the protocol in the ideal case when the entangled channel under use is in a pure state. After that, we consider the effect of amplitude damping(AD) noise on the quantum channel and describe the protocol executed through the noisy channel. The decrement of the fidelity is shown to occur with the increment in the noise parameter. This is shown by numerical computation in specific examples of the states to be created. Finally, we show that it is possible to maintain the label of fidelity to some extent and hence to decrease the effect of noise by the application of weak and reversal measurements. We also present a scheme for the generation of the five-qubit entangled resource which we require as a quantum channel. The generation scheme is run on the IBMQ platform.

Probabilistic Teleportation of an Unknown Two-Particle State with a Four-Particle Pure Entangled State and Positive Operator Valued Measure

We propose a scheme for probabilistic teleportation of an unknown two-particle state with a four-particle pure entangled state and positive operator valued measure （POVM）. In this scheme the teleportation of an unknown two-particle state can be realized with certain probability by performing two Bell state measurements, a proper POVM and a unitary transformation.

A Coding and Automatic Error-Correction Circuit Based on the Five-Particle Entangled State

In this paper, we discuss the concepts of quantum coding and error correction for a five-particle entangled state. Error correction can correct bit-reverse or phase-flip errors of one and two quantum states and is no longer limited to only one quantum state. We encode a single quantum state into a five-particle entangled state before being transferred to the sender. We designed an automatic error-correction circuit to correct errors caused by noise. We also simplify the design process for a multiple quantum error-correction circuit. We compare error-correction schemes for five and three entangled particles in terms of efficiency and capabilities. The results show that error-correction efficiency and fidelity are im- proved.

Quantum Dialogue by Using Non-Symmetric Quantum Channel

A protocol for quantum dialogue is proposed to exchange directly the communicator＇s secret messages by using a three-dimensional Bell state and a two-dimensional Bell state as quantum channel with quantum superdence coding, local collective unitary operations, and entanglement swapping. In this protocol, during the process of trans- mission of particles, the transmitted particles do not carry any secret messages and are transmitted only one time. The protocol has higher source capacity than protocols using symmetric two-dimensional states. The security is ensured by the unitary operations randomly performed on all checking groups before the particle sequence is transmitted and the application of entanglement swapping.

Dissipation of a two-mode squeezed vacuum state in the single-mode amplitude damping channel

We explore how a two-mode squeezed vacuum state sechθeab tanh θ[00） evolves when it undergoes a single- mode amplitude dissipative channel with rate of decay k. We find that in this process not only the squeezing parameter decreases, tanhθ → e-kt tanh θ, but also the second-mode vacuum state evolves into a chaotic state exp{bbln[（1 - e-2kt） tanh2 θ]}. The outcome state is no more a pure state, but an entangled mixed state.

A new optical field generated as an output of the displaced Fock state in an amplitude dissipative channel

We propose a new optical field and show that such an optical field can be generated as an output of a displaced Fock state in an amplitude dissipative channel. We derive new generating function formulas and binomial formula involving twovariable Hermite polynomials to reach this result. The photon number average in this new optical field is m＋｜α｜^2e^-2κt,which indicates that controlling the photon number can be realized by adjusting the value of m or ｜α｜2 or κ. The time evolution law of displaced Fock state in a thermo reservoir is thus revealed.

Robustness of two-qubit and three-qubit states in correlated quantum channels

We investigate how the correlated actions of quantum channels affect the robustness of entangled states.We consider the Bell-like state and random two-qubit pure states in the correlated depolarizing,bit flip,bit-phase flip,and phase flip channels.It is found that the robustness of two-qubit pure states can be noticeably enhanced due to the correlations between consecutive actions of these noisy channels,and the Bell-like state is always the most robust one.We also consider the robustness of three-qubit pure states in correlated noisy channels.For the correlated bit flip and phase flip channels,the result shows that although the most robust and most fragile states are locally unitary equivalent,they exhibit different robustness in different correlated channels,and the effect of channel correlations on them is also significantly different.However,for the correlated depolarizing and bit-phase flip channels,the robustness of two special three-qubit pure states is exactly the same.Moreover,compared with the random three-qubit pure states,they are neither the most robust states nor the most fragile states.

Time evolution law of a two-mode squeezed light field passing through twin diffusion channels

We explore the time evolution law of a two-mode squeezed light field(pure state)passing through twin diffusion channels,and we find that the final state is a squeezed chaotic light field(mixed state)with entanglement,which shows that even though the two channels are independent of each other,since the two modes of the initial state are entangled with each other,the final state remains entangled.Nevertheless,although the squeezing(entanglement)between the two modes is weakened after the diffusion,it is not completely removed.We also highlight the law of photon number evolution.In the calculation process used in this paper,we make full use of the summation method within the ordered product of operators and the generating function formula for two-variable Hermite polynomials.

Influence of Composite Effect from Quantum Channels on Entanglement

The dynamics of entanglement between two qubits in the local damping two-sided channel and singlesided channel are compared through non-Markovian process and Markovian process. The entanglement between two qubits is found to be longer in the single-sided channel case due to the weakening of the dissipative effects. In the two-sided channel, influenced by the entanglement between qubits, the previous independent dissipative channels incline to the composite effect of the Markovian process. This composite effect results in the dissipative effect of one channel affecting the qubits in the other channel, especially inhibiting the backflow effect in the non-Markovian channel, which is disadvantageous to the entanglement maintenance between qubits. In the Markovian channel, the composite effect of the damping two-sided channels is more obvious since there is no backflow effect, thus more disadvantageous to the entanglement maintenance.