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Entanglement assisted random access codes

Quantum Physics 2013-05-29 v2

Abstract

An (n,m,p) Random Access Code (RAC) allows to encode n bits in an m bit message, in such a way that a receiver of the message can guess any of the original nn bits with probability p, greater than 1/2. In Quantum RAC's (QRACs) one transmits n qubits. The full set of primitive Entanglement Assisted Random Access Codes (EARACs) is introduced, in which parties are allowed to share a two-qubit singlet. It is shown that via a concatenation of these, one can build for any n an (n,1,p) EARAC. QRAC's for n>3 exist only if parties additionally share classical randomness (SR). We show that EARACs outperform the best of known QRACs not only in the success probabilities but also in the amount of communication needed in the preparatory stage of the protocol. Upper bounds on the performance of EARACs are given, and shown to limit also QRACs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.0524,
  title  = {Entanglement assisted random access codes},
  author = {Marcin Pawlowski and Marek Zukowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0524},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, published version

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