Quantum Shockwave Communication

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method to generate and control quantum shockwaves using pre-entangled emitters, enabling modulation of information flow and optimizing communication capacity through entanglement and coupling strength adjustments.

Contribution

It demonstrates how entanglement and coupling strength influence quantum shockwave energy modulation and channel capacity, offering new ways to shape quantum communication signals.

Findings

Entanglement allows local modulation and amplification of shockwave energy density.

Channel capacity depends on entanglement and quantum noise correlations.

An optimal coupling strength maximizes communication capacity.

Abstract

We present a scheme to produce shockwaves in quantum fields by means of pretimed emitters. We find that by suitably pre-entangeling the emitters, the shockwave's energy density can be locally modulated and amplified. When the large amplitudes in such a shockwave are used for communication, the channel capacity depends not only on the signal-to-noise ratio but also on the effect that the entanglement of the emitters has on the correlations in the signal and in the quantum noise at the receiver. As a consequence, by choosing the entanglement of the emitters, the flow of information in the shockwave can be modulated and spatially shaped to some extent independently of the flow of energy. We also find that there exists a finite optimal strength of the coupling between the receiver and the quantum field which optimizes the channel capacity by optimizing the tradeoff between sensitivity to the signal and sensitivity to the coupling-induced quantum noise.