Efficient experimental quantum fingerprinting with wavelength division multiplexing

作     者：Zhong, Xiaoqing Xu, Feihu Lo, Hoi-Kwong Qian, Li 

作者机构：Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control Dept. of Physics University of Toronto TorontoONM5S 1A7 Canada Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Modern Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei230026 China Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Toronto TorontoONM5S 3G4 Canada 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2020年

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主　　题：Demonstrations 

摘      要：Quantum communication complexity studies the efficiency of information communication (that is, the minimum amount of communication required to achieve a certain task) using quantum states. One representative example is quantum fingerprinting, in which the simultaneous message passing model is considered and the minimum amount of communication could be exponentially smaller than the classical fingerprinting protocol. Experimental demonstrations based on a practical quantum fingerprinting protocol where coherent states are used to construct the fingerprints, have successfully shown the superiority of quantum fingerprinting. However, as a consequence of using coherent states, the communication time in this coherent quantum fingerprinting (CQF) protocol is increased. Moreover, the minimum amount of information communicated in these experimental demonstrations is largely limited by the dark counts of the single photon detectors. Here, we propose to enhance the performance of the existing CQF protocol through applying wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and simultaneous detection of multiple wavelength channels. We show that the new WDM-CQF protocol can potentially reduce the communication time significantly. More importantly, with the same experimental parameters, the amount of communication is much reduced in the new scheme compared with the original CQF protocol. The more wavelength channels are used, the less communication is required by WDM-CQF protocol. We also perform a proof-of-concept experimental demonstration of the new WDM-CQF protocol with 6 wavelength channels. The experimental results further validate that the new scheme with WDM not only beats the classical protocol, but also reduces the amount of communication required by the original CQF protocol by more than half. Copyright © 2020, The Authors. All rights reserved.