Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel
Entanglement is essential to many quantum information applications, but it is easily destroyed by quantum decoherence arising from interaction with the environment. We report the first experimental demonstration of an entanglement-based protocol that is resilient to loss and noise which destroy enta...
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| author | Zhang, Zheshen Tengner, Maria Zhong, Tian Wong, Franco N. C. Shapiro, Jeffrey H. |
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| description | Entanglement is essential to many quantum information applications, but it is easily destroyed by quantum decoherence arising from interaction with the environment. We report the first experimental demonstration of an entanglement-based protocol that is resilient to loss and noise which destroy entanglement. Specifically, despite channel noise 8.3 dB beyond the threshold for entanglement breaking, eavesdropping-immune communication is achieved between Alice and Bob when an entangled source is used, but no such immunity is obtainable when their source is classical. The results prove that entanglement can be utilized beneficially in lossy and noisy situations, i.e., in practical scenarios. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/799052022-10-02T06:25:01Z Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel Zhang, Zheshen Tengner, Maria Zhong, Tian Wong, Franco N. C. Shapiro, Jeffrey H. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Zhang, Zheshen Tengner, Maria Zhong, Tian Wong, Franco N. C. Shapiro, Jeffrey H. Entanglement is essential to many quantum information applications, but it is easily destroyed by quantum decoherence arising from interaction with the environment. We report the first experimental demonstration of an entanglement-based protocol that is resilient to loss and noise which destroy entanglement. Specifically, despite channel noise 8.3 dB beyond the threshold for entanglement breaking, eavesdropping-immune communication is achieved between Alice and Bob when an entangled source is used, but no such immunity is obtainable when their source is classical. The results prove that entanglement can be utilized beneficially in lossy and noisy situations, i.e., in practical scenarios. United States. Office of Naval Research (Basic Research Challenge Grant) 2013-08-21T19:17:35Z 2013-08-21T19:17:35Z 2013-07 2013-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-9007 1079-7114 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79905 Zhang, Zheshen, Maria Tengner, Tian Zhong, Franco N. C. Wong, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro. “Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel.” Physical Review Letters 111, no. 1 (July 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1998-6159 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6094-5861 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-8162 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.010501 Physical Review Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Zhang, Zheshen Tengner, Maria Zhong, Tian Wong, Franco N. C. Shapiro, Jeffrey H. Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel |
| title | Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel |
| title_full | Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel |
| title_fullStr | Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel |
| title_short | Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel |
| title_sort | entanglement s benefit survives an entanglement breaking channel |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79905 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1998-6159 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6094-5861 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-8162 |
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