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Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Relativistic quantum broadcast channel

Ian Bernardes Barcellos, André G. S. Landulfo

Published Mar 18, 2024• 5 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the transmission of classical and quantum information between three observers in a general globally hyperbolic spacetime using a quantum scalar field as a communication channel. We build a model for a quantum broadcast channel in which one observer (sender) wishes to transmit (classical and quantum) information to two other observers (receivers). They possess some localized two-level quantum system (a qubit) that can interact with the quantum field in order to prepare an input or receive the output of this channel. The field is supposed to be in an arbitrary quasifree state, the three observers may be in arbitrary states of motion, and no choice of representation of the field canonical commutation relations is made. The interaction of the field and qubits is such that it allows us to obtain the map that describes this channel in a nonperturbative manner. We conclude by analyzing the rates at which information can be transmitted through this channel and by investigating relativistic causality effects on such rates.

DOI
10.1103/physrevd.109.065020

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We investigate the transmission of both classical and quantum information between two arbitrary observers in globally hyperbolic spacetimes using a quantum field as a communication channel. The field is supposed to be in some arbitrary quasifree state and no choice of representation of its canonical commutation relations is made. Both sender and receiver possess some localized two-level quantum system with which they can interact with the quantum field to prepare the input and receive the output of the channel, respectively. The interaction between the two-level systems and the quantum field is such that one can trace out the field degrees of freedom exactly and thus obtain the quantum channel in a nonperturbative way. We end the paper determining the unassisted as well as the entanglement-assisted classical and quantum channel capacities.
We consider the communication of classical and quantum information between two arbitrary observers in asymptotically flat spacetimes (possibly containing black holes) and investigate what the energy cost is for such information transmission. By means of localized two-level quantum systems, sender and receiver can use a quantum scalar field as a communication channel. As we have already shown in a previous paper, such a channel has nonvanishing classical capacity as well as entanglement-assisted classical and quantum capacities. Here we will show that the change in the expectation value of the energy of the system during the communication process can be separated in (i) a contribution coming from the particle creation due to the change of the spacetime, (ii) a contribution associated with the energy needed to switch on or off each qubit, and (iii) a term which comes from the communication process itself. For the quantum channel considered here, we show that the extra energy cost needed for communication vanishes. As a result, if one has already created a system of qubits for some specific task (e.g., quantum computation), one can also reliably convey information between its parts with no extra energy cost. We conclude the paper by illustrating the form of the channel capacities and energy contributions in two paradigmatic cases in Minkowski spacetime: (i) sender and receiver in inertial motion and (ii) sender in inertial motion while the receiver is uniformly accelerated.
In this work we study nonperturbatively the transmission of classical and quantum information in globally hyperbolic spacetimes, where the communication channel is between two qubit detectors interacting with a quantized massless scalar field via delta-coupling interaction. This interaction approximates very rapid detector-field interaction, effectively occurring at a single instant in time for each detector. We show that when both detectors interact via delta-coupling, one can arrange and tune the detectors so that the channel capacity is (at least) as good as the quantum channel constructed nonperturbatively using gapless detectors by Landulfo [Phys. Rev. D 93, 104019 (2016) ]. Furthermore, we prove that this channel capacity is in fact optimal, i.e., both nonperturbative methods give essentially the same channel capacity; thus there is a sense in which the two methods can be regarded as equivalent as far as relativistic quantum communication is concerned.
Abstract We construct a relativistic quantum communication channel between two localized qubit systems, mediated by a relativistic quantum field, that can achieve the theoretical maximum for the quantum capacity in arbitrary curved spacetimes using the Unruh–DeWitt detector formalism. Using techniques from algebraic quantum field theory, we express the quantum capacity of the quantum communication channel purely in terms of the correlation functions of the field and the causal propagator for the wave equation. Consequently, the resulting quantum channel, and hence the quantum capacity, are by construction manifestly covariant, respect the causal structure of spacetime, and are independent of the details of the background geometry, topology, and the choice of Hilbert space (quasifree) representations of the field.
Communication in a network generally takes place through a sequence of intermediate nodes connected by communication channels. In the standard theory of communication, it is assumed that the communication network is embedded in a classical spacetime, where the relative order of different nodes is well defined. In principle, a quantum theory of spacetime could allow the order of the intermediate points between sender and receiver to be in a coherent superposition. Here we experimentally realize a tabletop simulation of this exotic possibility on a photonic system, demonstrating high-fidelity transmission of quantum information over two noisy channels arranged in a superposition of two alternative causal orders.