Fault-Tolerant Coding for Entanglement-Assisted Communication

Paula Belzig, Matthias Christandl, Alexander Müller-hermes

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Abstract

Channel capacities quantify the optimal rates of sending information reliably over noisy channels. Usually, the study of capacities assumes that the circuits which sender and receiver use for encoding and decoding consist of perfectly noiseless gates. In the case of communication over quantum channels, however, this assumption is widely believed to be unrealistic, even in the long-term, due to the fragility of quantum information, which is affected by the process of decoherence. Christandl and Müller-Hermes have therefore initiated the study of fault-tolerant channel coding for quantum channels, i.e. coding schemes where encoder and decoder circuits are affected by noise, and have used techniques from fault-tolerant quantum computing to establish coding theorems for sending classical and quantum information in this scenario. Here, we extend these methods to the case of entanglement-assisted communication, in particular proving that the fault-tolerant capacity approaches the usual capacity when the gate error approaches zero. A main tool, which might be of independent interest, is the introduction of fault-tolerant entanglement distillation. We furthermore focus on the modularity of the techniques used, so that they can be easily adopted in other fault-tolerant communication scenarios.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2023
Pages84-89
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-7554-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 25 Jun 202330 Jun 2023

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
CityTaipei, Taiwan
Period25/06/202330/06/2023

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