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Entanglement-Assisted Bosonic MAC: Achievable Rates and Covert Communication

Quantum Physics 2026-01-30 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We consider the problem of covert communication over the entanglement-assisted (EA) bosonic multiple access channel (MAC). We derive a closed-form achievable rate region for the general EA bosonic MAC using high-order phase-shift keying (PSK) modulation. Specifically, we demonstrate that in the low-photon regime the capacity region collapses into a rectangle, asymptotically matching the point-to-point capacity as multi-user interference vanishes. We also characterize an achievable covert throughput region, showing that entanglement assistance enables an aggregate throughput scaling of O(nlogn)O(\sqrt{n} \log n) covert bits with the block length nn for both senders, surpassing the square-root law as in the point-to-point case. Our analysis reveals that the joint covertness constraint imposes a linear trade-off between the senders throughput.

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@article{arxiv.2601.21869,
  title  = {Entanglement-Assisted Bosonic MAC: Achievable Rates and Covert Communication},
  author = {Yu-Chen Shen and Matthieu R. Bloch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.21869},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

35 pages. Full technical version; includes detailed proofs for all main results