Entanglement-assisted quantum communication system with coherent signals
Masashi Ban · Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics · 2000
The possibility is explicitly shown that the average probability of error is reduced and the transmission rate of information is enhanced by means of entangled input states to a communication channel. When two senders transmit some information to a receiver, they encode the information in the quadrature amplitudes of both modes of a two-mode squeezed vacuum state. The receiver performs a simultaneous measurement of the two quadrature amplitudes of the received two-mode state. In this case, if the average value of the photon number supplied to the communication system is not so small, the average probability of error becomes smaller than that of the communication system without entanglement. Furthermore, the transmission rate of information becomes larger than the quantum capacity of classical information of the communication system without entanglement.