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Piggybacking on Quantum Streams

Quantum Physics 2020-07-21 v1

Abstract

This paper shows that it is possible to piggyback classical information on a stream of qubits protected by quantum error correcting codes. The piggyback channel can be created by introducing intentional errors corresponding to a controlled sequence of syndromes. These syndromes are further protected, when quantum noise is present, by classical error correcting codes according to a performance-delay trade-off. Classical information can thus be added and extracted at arbitrary epochs without consuming additional quantum resources and without disturbing the quantum stream.

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@article{arxiv.2005.12215,
  title  = {Piggybacking on Quantum Streams},
  author = {Marco Chiani and Andrea Conti and Moe Z. Win},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12215},
  year   = {2020}
}
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