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Letter

Nature Physics 4, 282–286 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/nphys919

Beating the channel capacity limit for linear photonic superdense coding

Julio T. Barreiro , Tzu-Chieh Wei & Paul G. Kwiat

Dense coding is arguably the protocol that launched the field of quantum communication. Today, however, more than a decade after its initial experimental realization, the channel capacity remains fundamentally limited as conceived for photons using linear elements.