What is Superdense coding ?
Superdense coding is a quantum communications protocol that allows a user to send 2 classical bits by sending only 1 qubit.
The protocol
Step 1: Preparing the Bell pair
First a bell pair consisting of 2 qubits is prepared. Where q0 is the senders qubit and q1 is the receivers qubit. To do this q0 is put in to a superposition of states using a hadamard gate.
Then a CNOT operation is performed with q0 being the control and q1 being the target.
Step 2: Encode the information on to q0
Next the sender has to encode the information they want to send on to q0 by applying certain operations to it.
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If they want to send 00 then they perform no operation.
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If they want to send 01 then they perform a Pauli-X operation where q1s state is flipped.
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If they want to send 10 then they apply a Pauli-Z gate.
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If they want to send 11 then apply a Pauli-Z gate followed by a Pauli-X gate
Step 3: Receiver decodes the information
Next q0 is sent and the receiver has to decode the qubit. This is done by applying a CNOT where the received q0 is the control and q1 is the target. Then a hadamard gate is applied to q0.
How to run the program
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Copy and paste the code below in to a python file
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Enter your API token in the IBMQ.enable_account(‘Insert API token here’) part
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Save and run
Code
print('\n Superdense Coding')
print('--------------------------\n')
from qiskit import QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister, QuantumCircuit, execute,IBMQ
IBMQ.enable_account('INSERT TOKEN HERE')
provider = IBMQ.get_provider(hub='ibm-q')
q = QuantumRegister(2,'q')
c = ClassicalRegister(2,'c')
backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_qasm_simulator')
print('Provider: ',backend)
#################### 00 ###########################
circuit = QuantumCircuit(q,c)
circuit.h(q[0]) # Hadamard gate applied to q0
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1]) # CNOT gate applied
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.measure(q,c) # Qubits measured
job = execute(circuit, backend, shots=10)
print('Executing Job...\n')
result = job.result()
counts = result.get_counts(circuit)
print('RESULT: ',counts,'\n')
#################### 01 ###########################
circuit = QuantumCircuit(q,c)
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.x(q[0]) # X-gate applied
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.measure(q,c)
job = execute(circuit, backend, shots=10)
print('Executing Job...\n')
result = job.result()
counts = result.get_counts(circuit)
print('RESULT: ',counts,'\n')
#################### 10 ###########################
circuit = QuantumCircuit(q,c)
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.z(q[0]) # Z-gate applied to q0
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.measure(q,c)
job = execute(circuit, backend, shots=10)
print('Executing Job...\n')
result = job.result()
counts = result.get_counts(circuit)
print('RESULT: ',counts,'\n')
#################### 11 ###########################
circuit = QuantumCircuit(q,c)
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.z(q[0]) # Z-gate applied
circuit.x(q[0]) # X-gate applied
circuit.cx(q[0],q[1])
circuit.h(q[0])
circuit.measure(q,c)
job = execute(circuit, backend, shots=10)
print('Executing Job...\n')
result = job.result()
counts = result.get_counts(circuit)
print('RESULT: ',counts,'\n')
print('Press any key to close')
input()
Output
After running the code you will see something like the following printed on the screen :
