Quantum Codeword Sensing

Abstract:Consider the task of identifying an unknown classical codeword delivered to a register of quantum sensor qubits through a sequence of weak phase interactions that each encode one bit. Suppose that each received bit controls an identical $Z$-rotation of angle $\theta$ applied to every sensor qubit; receivers may also use auxiliary qubits within a total qubit budget $Q$, with arbitrary control unitaries and entanglement among all qubits allowed during each reception step. When the total collected signal is weak ($Q\theta \rightarrow 0$), we establish that a sensor coupled to a persistent quantum memory can identify the original codeword more reliably than any receiver with the same $Q$ and $\theta$ but only classical memory between received bits, even when bit flips occur during transmission. In particular, for a family of $[n,k]$ binary simplex codes with even $k$ and $n=2^k-1$, we achieve exact correction of up to $t\leq(k-2)/4$ transmission errors by coupling the sensor register to a persistent quantum memory of the same size, using $Q = \Theta((t+1)\log n)$ and $\theta=\frac{2\pi}{k\sqrt{n+1}}$; for $t=o(\sqrt k)$, every comparable receiver with only classical memory instead has average success probability (over uniformly chosen codewords) tending to zero. Furthermore, under independent bit flips of any fixed probability $p<1/16$, our receiver with persistent quantum memory achieves decoding error tending to zero as $n\to\infty$ using $Q=O(\log n\log\log n)$ total qubits and the same $\theta$. In contrast, every otherwise equivalent receiver with only classical memory has vanishing average success probability under the same stochastic error model.

arXiv:2610.03659 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2610.03659v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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