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(4,1)-Quantum random access coding does not exist—one qubit is not enough to recover one of four bits

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Published 4 August 2006 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation M Hayashi et al 2006 New J. Phys. 8 129 DOI 10.1088/1367-2630/8/8/129

1367-2630/8/8/129

Abstract

An (n,1,p)-quantum random access (QRA) coding, introduced by Ambainis et al (1999 ACM Symp. Theory of Computing p 376), is the following communication system: the sender which has n-bit information encodes his/her information into one qubit, which is sent to the receiver. The receiver can recover any one bit of the original n bits correctly with probability at least p, through a certain decoding process based on positive operator-valued measures. Actually, Ambainis et al shows the existence of a (2,1,0.85)-QRA coding and also proves the impossibility of its classical counterpart. Chuang immediately extends it to a (3,1,0.79)-QRA coding and whether or not a (4,1,p)-QRA coding such that p > 1/2 exists has been open since then. This paper gives a negative answer to this open question. Moreover, we generalize its negative answer for one-qubit encoding to the case of multiple-qubit encoding

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