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arXiv:2309.13208 · Physical Review A

Quantum advantage in a unified scenario and secure detection of resources

Saronath Halder, Alexander Streltsov

Published Feb 27, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum resources may provide an advantage over their classical counterparts in communication tasks. We refer to this as quantum advantage. Here, we consider a single communication task to study different approaches of observing quantum advantage. We call this setting a unified scenario. Our task is described as the following. There are three parties---the Manager, Alice, and Bob. The Manager sends a value of a random variable to Alice, and at the same time Bob receives some partial information regarding that value. Initially, neither Alice nor Bob knows the input of the other, which is received from the Manager. The goal of the task is achieved if and only if the value of the random variable, sent to Alice by the Manager, is identified by Bob with a success probability greater than half all the time. Here, nonzero error probability is allowed. However, to help Bob, Alice sends a limited amount of classical or quantum information to him (cbit or qubit). We show that the goal of the task can be achieved when Alice sends a qubit. On the other hand, a cbit communication is not sufficient for achieving the goal. Thus, it establishes quantum advantage. We further show that the optimal success probability in the overall process for a qubit communication can be higher than the optimal success probability for a cbit communication. In fact, this success probability is higher for qubit communication even if along with cbit communication Alice and Bob share randomness which allows mixing of classical strategies. Clearly, it not only establishes quantum advantage, it also demonstrates a more prominent nonclassical feature. Actually, we obtain higher success probability compared to other tasks. This also suggests the experiment-friendly nature of our task. For applications, we connect our task with semi-device-independence and show how our task can be useful to detect quantumness of a communication in a secure way. Moreover, within the same setting, we provide a way to detect universal coherence present in an ensemble. For a high-dimensional random variable, to achieve the goal, it may require a high-dimensional classical communication, while it can be achieved with only a qubit communication. This establishes a large separation between the quantum and the classical communication.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.111.022446

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Quantum resources may provide an advantage over their classical counterparts in communication tasks. We refer to this as quantum advantage. Here, we consider a single communication task to study different approaches of observing quantum advantage. We call this setting a unified scenario. Our task is described as the following. There are three parties---the Manager, Alice, and Bob. The Manager sends a value of a random variable to Alice, and at the same time Bob receives some partial information regarding that value. Initially, neither Alice nor Bob knows the input of the other, which is received from the Manager. The goal of the task is achieved if and only if the value of the random variable, sent to Alice by the Manager, is identified by Bob with a success probability greater than half all the time. Here, nonzero error probability is allowed. However, to help Bob, Alice sends a limited amount of classical or quantum information to him (cbit or qubit). We show that the goal of the task can be achieved when Alice sends a qubit. On the other hand, a cbit communication is not sufficient for achieving the goal. Thus, it establishes quantum advantage. We further show that the optimal success probability in the overall process for a qubit communication can be higher than the optimal success probability for a cbit communication. In fact, this success probability is higher for qubit communication even if along with cbit communication Alice and Bob share randomness which allows mixing of classical strategies. Clearly, it not only establishes quantum advantage, it also demonstrates a more prominent nonclassical feature. Actually, we obtain higher success probability compared to other tasks. This also suggests the experiment-friendly nature of our task. For applications, we connect our task with semi-device-independence and show how our task can be useful to detect quantumness of a communication in a secure way. Moreover, within the same setting, we provide a way to detect universal coherence present in an ensemble. For a high-dimensional random variable, to achieve the goal, it may require a high-dimensional classical communication, while it can be achieved with only a qubit communication. This establishes a large separation between the quantum and the classical communication.
Quantum resources may provide an advantage over their classical counterparts. Theoretically, in certain tasks, this advantage can be very high. In this work, we construct such a task based on a game, mediated by the Referee and played between Alice and Bob. The Referee sends Alice a value of a random variable. At the same time, the Referee also sends Bob some partial information regarding that value. Here partial information can be defined in the following way. Bob gets the information of a random set that must contain the value of the variable, which is sent to Alice by the Referee, along with other value(s). Alice is not allowed to know what information is sent to Bob by the Referee. Again, Bob does not know which value of the random variable is sent to Alice. Now, the game can be won if and only if Bob can unambiguously identify the value of the variable that is sent to Alice, with some nonzero probability, no matter what information Bob receives or which value is sent to Alice. However, to help Bob, Alice sends some limited amount of information to him, based on any strategy that is fixed by Alice and Bob before the game begins. We show that if Alice sends a limited amount of classical information, then the game cannot be won, while the quantum analog of the ``limited amount of classical information'' is sufficient for winning the game. Thus, it establishes a quantum advantage. We further analyze several variants of the game and provide certain bounds on the success probabilities. Moreover, we establish connections between the trine ensemble, mutually unbiased bases, and the encoding-decoding strategies of those variants. We also discuss the role of quantum coherence in the present context.
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Quantum communication can outperform classical communication in a variety of information-processing tasks, but such advantages are typically established for a fixed communication network. Here we introduce topology-independent quantum advantage, in which a quantum protocol outperforms every classical protocol subject to the same communication constraint, irrespective of how the classical communication resource is distributed among the parties or which communication topology is employed, even when the parties may share unlimited classical randomness. We first demonstrate this phenomenon through a simple three-party equality task: two senders receive ternary classical inputs, while an input-free receiver determines whether the inputs are equal. We then formulate a general framework for topology-independent communication and completely characterize the corresponding classical correlation polytope in the minimal three-party scenario. Its facet inequalities reveal several instances of topology-independent quantum advantage. Remarkably, one of these inequalities enables the semi-device-independent certification of a nonunitary quantum channel, while another certifies a sequential quantum network topology without any prior assumption about the network configuration. Finally, we extend the framework to four-party networks, characterize the relevant classical communication structures, and identify a communication task exhibiting quantum advantages against all admissible classical topologies. Our results establish topology independence as a genuine and robust form of quantum advantage in communication networks.
Abstract Can quantum processes be simulated using only classical resources? This question delineates the boundary between classical and quantum models and clarifies the origin of quantum advantage in information processing. We address this question through the task of quantum channel simulation, where a sender (Alice) holds the classical description of a quantum state and wishes to transmit it to a receiver (Bob) for measurement. Prior work has shown that, for qubit channels, 2 bits of forward communication with shared randomness suffice to reproduce the statistics of any single-qubit measurement. We argue, however, that true channel simulation requires reproducing statistics of joint measurements—including entangled effects—on Alice’s state and an auxiliary system held by Bob. Such scenarios naturally arise in network communication, where some nodes know the state, while others do not. We prove that a perfect qubit channel cannot be simulated with any finite amount of classical communication, even using the most general multi-round, bidirectional protocols. We further show that this no-go result is rooted in the necessity of reproducing statistics associated with entangled effects. On the other hand, we show that noisy qubit channels, such as depolarizing channels, admit classical simulation, though the required communication diverges as noise decreases.
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