Coherence Scaling in Quantum Communication Protocols

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12516v1
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:01:38 GMT
• Title: Coherence Scaling in Quantum Communication Protocols
• Authors: Pedro H. Alvarez, Marcos C. de Oliveira,
• Abstract summary: We investigate how quantum coherence scales and is redistributed in quantum communication protocols.<n>We show that superdense coding can enable scalable communication while exhibiting only logarithmic or even constant coherence growth.<n> quantum teleportation displays an unavoidable, protocol-induced coherence cost that grows linearly with the number of teleported qubits.
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• Abstract: We investigate how quantum coherence scales and is redistributed in quantum communication protocols, using superdense coding and quantum teleportation as paradigmatic case studies. Employing the relative entropy of coherence as a circuit-level resource measure, we show that multipartite resource states relevant to generalized superdense coding can enable scalable communication while exhibiting only logarithmic or even constant coherence growth, depending on their entanglement structure. In sharp contrast, quantum teleportation displays an unavoidable, protocol-induced coherence cost that grows linearly with the number of teleported qubits and is independent of the input state. Through a stage-resolved analysis of the teleportation circuit, we separate protocol-generated coherence from message-dependent contributions and identify a universal two-bit coherence offset per teleported qubit at the maximal-coherence stage. We further demonstrate explicitly that this extensive intermediate coherence generation is fully consistent with information-theoretic bounds, including the Holevo limit, and does not correspond to an increase in accessible classical information.

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