Entanglement-Assisted Bosonic MAC: Achievable Rates and Covert Communication
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 covert bits with the block length 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.
Cite
@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