http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06218
A photon can encode several bits of information based on an alphabet of its time of arrival, energy, and polarization. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle places a limit on measuring pairs of physical properties of a particle, limiting the maximal information efficiency to <59 bits per photon in practice, and <171 bits per photon at Planck energy, at a data rate of one photon per second.
M. Hippke
Mon, 22 Jan 2018
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Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure