When entanglement meets classical communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet
When entanglement meets classical communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet
Quantum Teleportation is the key communication functionality of the Quantum Internet, allowing the 'transmission' of qubits without the physical transfer of the particle storing the qubit. Quantum teleportation is facilitated by the action of quantum entanglement, a somewhat counter-intuitive physical phenomenon with no direct counterpart in the classical word. As a consequence, the very concept of the classical communication system model has to be redesigned to account for the peculiarities of quantum teleportation. This re-design is a crucial prerequisite for constructing any effective quantum communication protocol. The aim of this manuscript is to shed light on this key concept, with the objective of allowing the reader: i) to appreciate the fundamental differences between the transmission of classical information versus the teleportation of quantum information; ii) to understand the communications functionalities underlying quantum teleportation, and to grasp the challenges in the design and practical employment of these functionalities; iii) to acknowledge that quantum information is subject to the deleterious effects of a noise process termed as quantum decoherence. This imperfection has no direct counterpart in the classical world; iv) to recognize how to contribute to the design and employment of the Quantum Internet.
entanglement, Quantum communications, quantum internet, quantum noise, quantum teleportation
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Cacciapuoti, Angela Sara
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Caleffi, Marcello
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Van Meter, Rodney
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Cacciapuoti, Angela Sara
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Caleffi, Marcello
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Van Meter, Rodney
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Cacciapuoti, Angela Sara, Caleffi, Marcello, Van Meter, Rodney and Hanzo, Lajos
(2020)
When entanglement meets classical communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet.
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 68 (6), , [9023997].
(doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2020.2978071).
Abstract
Quantum Teleportation is the key communication functionality of the Quantum Internet, allowing the 'transmission' of qubits without the physical transfer of the particle storing the qubit. Quantum teleportation is facilitated by the action of quantum entanglement, a somewhat counter-intuitive physical phenomenon with no direct counterpart in the classical word. As a consequence, the very concept of the classical communication system model has to be redesigned to account for the peculiarities of quantum teleportation. This re-design is a crucial prerequisite for constructing any effective quantum communication protocol. The aim of this manuscript is to shed light on this key concept, with the objective of allowing the reader: i) to appreciate the fundamental differences between the transmission of classical information versus the teleportation of quantum information; ii) to understand the communications functionalities underlying quantum teleportation, and to grasp the challenges in the design and practical employment of these functionalities; iii) to acknowledge that quantum information is subject to the deleterious effects of a noise process termed as quantum decoherence. This imperfection has no direct counterpart in the classical world; iv) to recognize how to contribute to the design and employment of the Quantum Internet.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 February 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 March 2020
Published date: 1 June 2020
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Manuscript received July 8, 2019; revised December 19, 2019 and February 21, 2020; accepted February 23, 2020. Date of publication March 4, 2020; date of current version June 16, 2020. The work of A. S. Cacciapuoti and M. Caleffi was supported by the project “Towards the Quantum Internet: A Multidisciplinary Effort”, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. The work of R. Van Meter was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award FA2386-19-1-4038. The work of L. Hanzo was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council projects EP/Noo4558/1, EP/PO34284/1, COALESCE, of the Royal Society’s Global Challenges Research Fund Grant as well as of the European Research Council’s Advanced Fellow Grant QuantCom. The results presented in this article were obtained in part using an IBM Q quantum computing system as part of the IBM Q Network. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of IBM or the IBM Q team. The associate editor coordinating the review of this article and approving it for publication was J. Cheng. (Corresponding author: Angela Sara Cacciapuoti.) Angela Sara Cacciapuoti and Marcello Caleffi are with the Future Communications Laboratory (FLY), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy, and also with the Laboratorio Nazionale di Comuni-cazioni Multimediali, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), 80126 Naples, Italy (e-mail: angelasara.cacciapuoti@unina.it; marcello.caleffi@unina.it).
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Keywords:
entanglement, Quantum communications, quantum internet, quantum noise, quantum teleportation
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