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Information carrier and resource optimization of counterfactual quantum communication

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Counterfactual quantum communication is unique in its own way that allows remote parties to transfer information without sending any message carrier in the channel. Although no message carrier travels in the channel at the time of successful information transmission, it is impossible to transmit information faster than the speed of light, thus without an information carrier. In this paper, we address an important question ”What carries the information in counterfactual quantum communication?” and optimize the resource efficiency of the counterfactual quantum communication in terms of the number of channels used, time consumed to transmit 1-bit classical information between two remote parties, and the number of qubits required to accomplish the counterfactual quantum communication.

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  1. We consider \(\cos \theta _N\approx 1\) for large values of N.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1A2C2007037).

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    Fakhar Zaman, Kyesan Lee & Hyundong Shin

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Zaman, F., Lee, K. & Shin, H. Information carrier and resource optimization of counterfactual quantum communication. Quantum Inf Process 20, 168 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03116-x

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