Enhanced high-dimensional teleportation in correlated amplitude damping noise by weak measurement and environment-assisted measurement
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The pith
Weak measurement and environment-assisted measurement raise fidelity of qutrit teleportation through correlated amplitude damping noise.
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Core claim
The authors present two strategies for enhancing qutrit teleportation in correlated amplitude damping noise by weak measurement and environment-assisted measurement. The fidelity of both approaches has been dramatically improved due to the probabilistic nature of WM and EAM. Correlation effects of CAD noise result in an increase in the probability of success. A comparison has demonstrated that the EAM scheme usually outperforms the WM scheme in regard to fidelity.
What carries the argument
Weak measurement and environment-assisted measurement applied before or after the correlated amplitude damping channel to probabilistically recover higher teleportation fidelity for qutrit states.
Load-bearing premise
The noise acting on the two qutrits is exactly the correlated amplitude damping channel whose Kraus operators and correlation parameter are taken as given.
What would settle it
Measure the achieved teleportation fidelity and success probability for qutrit states sent through a physical channel engineered to apply amplitude damping with a controllable correlation parameter, then compare results with and without the weak measurement or environment-assisted measurement steps.
read the original abstract
High-dimensional teleportation provides various benefits in quantum networks and repeaters, but all these advantages rely on the high-quality distribution of high-dimensional entanglement over a noisy channel. It is essential to consider correlation effects when two entangled qutrits travel sequentially through the same channel. In this paper, we present two strategies for enhancing qutrit teleportation in correlated amplitude damping (CAD) noise by weak measurement (WM) and environment-assisted measurement (EAM). The fidelity of both approaches has been dramatically improved due to the probabilistic nature of WM and EAM. We have observed that the correlation effects of CAD noise result in an increase in the probability of success. A comparison has demonstrated that the EAM scheme usually outperforms the WM scheme in regard to fidelity. Our research expands the capabilities of WM and EAM as quantum techniques to combat CAD noise in qutrit teleportation, facilitating the development of advanced quantum technologies in high-dimensional systems.
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Referee Report
Summary. The manuscript proposes two probabilistic strategies—weak measurement (WM) and environment-assisted measurement (EAM)—to enhance the fidelity of qutrit teleportation through correlated amplitude-damping (CAD) noise. It claims that both methods produce dramatic fidelity gains, that the correlation parameter of the CAD channel increases the success probability, and that EAM typically outperforms WM.
Significance. If the derivations hold, the work supplies concrete analytic expressions and comparisons showing how WM and EAM can mitigate a specific correlated noise model in high-dimensional teleportation. This is relevant to quantum networks and repeaters that rely on distributing qutrit entanglement, and the explicit comparison between the two filtering techniques adds value beyond single-technique studies.
major comments (1)
- [Sections 3–4, Eqs. (8–15) and (20–27)] Sections 3–4, Eqs. (8–15) (WM) and Eqs. (20–27) (EAM): all fidelity and success-probability expressions are obtained by applying the exact two-qutrit CAD Kraus operators with a fixed, perfectly known correlation parameter μ. No robustness or sensitivity analysis is supplied for deviations from this idealized channel (additional dephasing, imperfect correlation control, or unknown μ), which directly underpins the headline claims of dramatic fidelity improvement and correlation-driven success-probability increase.
minor comments (2)
- [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'dramatically improved' is used without a quantitative benchmark or pointer to the specific figures/tables that display the fidelity gains relative to the unprotected case.
- [Figure captions / Section 5] The manuscript does not state whether the plotted curves assume a particular range of the correlation parameter μ or whether the comparison between WM and EAM is performed at equal success probability.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the single major comment below regarding the idealized assumptions in our noise model.
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Referee: [Sections 3–4, Eqs. (8–15) and (20–27)] Sections 3–4, Eqs. (8–15) (WM) and Eqs. (20–27) (EAM): all fidelity and success-probability expressions are obtained by applying the exact two-qutrit CAD Kraus operators with a fixed, perfectly known correlation parameter μ. No robustness or sensitivity analysis is supplied for deviations from this idealized channel (additional dephasing, imperfect correlation control, or unknown μ), which directly underpins the headline claims of dramatic fidelity improvement and correlation-driven success-probability increase.
Authors: We agree that the derivations assume a perfectly known, fixed correlation parameter μ with no additional dephasing or control imperfections. This is the standard idealized treatment of the correlated amplitude-damping channel that permits closed-form analytic expressions for fidelity and success probability. The headline claims are therefore specific to this model. We acknowledge that a sensitivity analysis would strengthen the practical implications. In the revised manuscript we will add a concise discussion paragraph in Section 5 (Conclusions) that explicitly states the modeling assumptions and qualitatively outlines how deviations in μ or extra noise could affect the reported gains, thereby partially addressing the referee’s concern without performing new numerical robustness studies. revision: partial
Circularity Check
No circularity: fidelity expressions follow from direct application of standard CAD Kraus operators to WM/EAM filtering.
full rationale
The paper defines the correlated amplitude damping channel explicitly via its Kraus operators and correlation parameter μ (Section 2), then derives fidelity formulas (Eqs. 8–15 for WM, 20–27 for EAM) by applying those operators to the input qutrit state under the probabilistic WM/EAM maps. These are standard open-system calculations with no reduction of any 'prediction' to a fitted input by construction, no self-citation chains invoked for uniqueness or ansatz, and no renaming of known results. The success-probability increase with correlation is a direct algebraic consequence of the channel definition rather than an independent claim. The derivation is therefore self-contained and externally verifiable from the stated model.
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