Quantum Cost Efficient Scheme for Violating the Holevo Bound and Cloning in the Presence of Deutschian Closed Timelike Curves

Abstract

Brun \emph{et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{102}, 210402 (2009)] showed that in the presence of a Deutschian closed timelike curve (D-CTC), one could violate the Holevo bound. It is possible to utilize the Holevo bound violation to encode $n$-bit classical information in a single qubit. Here we demonstrate a new quantum cost efficient scheme, for storing and retrieving $n$-bit classical information faithfully in the presence of a D-CTC in violation of the Holevo bound. We also propose a new protocol for cloning a qubit in the presence of a D-CTC. In both the schemes, the quantum cost is found to be of order $O(n)$, which provides an advantage over the existing schemes having quantum cost of exponential order.