Environment-assisted quantum Minority games

TL;DR

This paper investigates how entanglement and correlated noise in quantum channels influence the outcomes of a four-player quantum Minority game, revealing that correlated noise can enhance payoffs and affect game dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the impact of various correlated noise channels on the Nash equilibrium and payoffs in quantum Minority games, highlighting the role of entanglement and noise.

Findings

Correlated noise channels can significantly enhance Nash equilibrium payoffs.

Different noise channels affect the game differently, with bit-phase flip having a strong influence.

Entanglement remains important at low decoherence levels, but less so at high decoherence.

Abstract

The effect of entanglement and correlated noise in a four-player quantum Minority game is investigated. Different time correlated quantum memory channels are considered to analyze the Nash equilibrium payoff of the 1st player. It is seen that the Nash equilibrium payoff is substantially enhanced due to the presence of correlated noise. The behaviour of damping channels (amplitude damping and phase damping) is approximately similar. However, bit-phase flip channel heavily influences the minority game as compared to other channels in the presence of correlated noise. On the other hand, phase flip channel has a symmetrical behaviour around 50% noise threshold. The significant reduction in payoffs due to decoherence is well compensated due to the presence of correlated noise. However, the Nash equilibrium of the game does not change in the presence of noise. It is seen that in case of generalized amplitude damping channel, entanglement plays a significant role at lower level of decoherence. The channel has less dominant effects on the payoff at higher values of decoherence. Furthermore, amplitude damping and generalized amplitude damping channels have almost comparable effects at lower level of decoherence $(p<0.5)$. Therefore, the game deserves careful study during its implementation due to prominent role of noise for different channels.