corner
corner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 187901 (2004) [4 pages]

Superdense Coding of Quantum States

Download: PDF (96 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

Aram Harrow
Physics Department, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

Patrick Hayden and Debbie Leung
Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech 107-81, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

Received 30 August 2003; published 4 May 2004

We describe a method for nonobliviously communicating a 2l-qubit quantum state by physically transmitting l+o(l) qubits, and by consuming l ebits of entanglement plus some shared random bits. In the nonoblivious scenario, the sender has a classical description of the state to be communicated. Our method can be used to communicate states that are pure or entangled with the sender’s system; l+o(l) and 3l+o(l) shared random bits are sufficient, respectively.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.187901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.187901
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.65.Ta