TY - JOUR
T1 - Modification of counterfactual communication protocols that eliminates weak particle traces
AU - Aharonov, Yakir
AU - Vaidman, Lev
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/1/18
Y1 - 2019/1/18
N2 - The possibility to communicate between spatially separated regions, without even a single photon passing between the two parties, is an amazing quantum phenomenon. The possibility of transmitting one value of a bit in such a way, the interaction-free measurement, has been known for quarter of a century. The protocols of full communication, including transmitting unknown quantum states, were proposed only a few years ago, but it was shown that in all these protocols the particle was leaving a weak trace in the transmission channel, the trace being larger than the trace left by a single particle passing through the channel. This made the claim of counterfactuality of these protocols at best controversial. However, a simple modification of these recent protocols eliminates the trace in the transmission channel, making all these protocols counterfactual.
AB - The possibility to communicate between spatially separated regions, without even a single photon passing between the two parties, is an amazing quantum phenomenon. The possibility of transmitting one value of a bit in such a way, the interaction-free measurement, has been known for quarter of a century. The protocols of full communication, including transmitting unknown quantum states, were proposed only a few years ago, but it was shown that in all these protocols the particle was leaving a weak trace in the transmission channel, the trace being larger than the trace left by a single particle passing through the channel. This made the claim of counterfactuality of these protocols at best controversial. However, a simple modification of these recent protocols eliminates the trace in the transmission channel, making all these protocols counterfactual.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.010103
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.010103
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AN - SCOPUS:85060128684
SN - 2469-9926
VL - 99
JO - Physical Review A
JF - Physical Review A
IS - 1
M1 - 010103
ER -