Content deleted Content added
merge |
→The idea: added comment on colloquial meaning of "superdense". |
||
Line 3:
== The idea ==
Suppose Alice would like to send classical information to Bob using qubits. Alice would encode the classical information in a qubit and send it to Bob. After receiving the qubit, Bob recovers the classical information via measurement. The question is: how much classical information can be transmitted per qubit? Since non-orthogonal quantum states can not be distinguished reliably, one would guess that Alice can do no better than one classical bit per qubit. Indeed this bound on efficiency has been proven formally. Thus there is no advantage gained in using qubits instead of classical bits. However, with the additional assumption that Alice and Bob share an entangled state, two classical bits per qubit can be achieved. The term ''superdense'' refers to this doubling of efficiency. We next describe this prodedure.
== The result ==
| |||