Experimental Quantum Communication Enhancement by Superposing Trajectories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05005v2
• Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 11:32:44 GMT
• Title: Experimental Quantum Communication Enhancement by Superposing Trajectories
• Authors: Giulia Rubino, Lee A. Rozema, Daniel Ebler, Hl\'er Kristj\'ansson, Sina Salek, Philippe Allard Gu\'erin, Alastair A. Abbott, Cyril Branciard, \v{C}aslav Brukner, Giulio Chiribella, Philip Walther
• Abstract summary: In quantum communication networks, wires represent well-defined trajectories along which quantum systems are transmitted. Such a control has been shown to enable the transmission of information even when quantum communication protocols through well-defined trajectories fail.
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• Abstract: In quantum communication networks, wires represent well-defined trajectories along which quantum systems are transmitted. In spite of this, trajectories can be used as a quantum control to govern the order of different noisy communication channels, and such a control has been shown to enable the transmission of information even when quantum communication protocols through well-defined trajectories fail. This result has motivated further investigations on the role of the superposition of trajectories in enhancing communication, which revealed that the use of quantum control of parallel communication channels, or of channels in series with quantum-controlled operations, can also lead to communication advantages. Building upon these findings, here we experimentally and numerically compare different ways in which two trajectories through a pair of noisy channels can be superposed. We observe that, within the framework of quantum interferometry, the use of channels in series with quantum-controlled operations generally yields the largest advantages. Our results contribute to clarify the nature of these advantages in experimental quantum-optical scenarios, and showcase the benefit of an extension of the quantum communication paradigm in which both the information exchanged and the trajectory of the information carriers are quantum.

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