A Preliminary Outline for Quantum Counterfactual Communication Via Perfect Mirror



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Submitted Oct 1, 2022
Published Nov 7, 2022
10.24018/ejphysics.2022.4.6.216

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Quantum counterfactual communication applies to information transmission that is free from particles commuting in-between; it is at the forefront of the present computing technology. Here, we consider a perfect mirror that reflects any incident photon with 100% probability. By the existing literature, the reflected photon loses a certain amount of energy because a portion of its wave nevertheless gets transmitted. That is, there exist separated photon-less waves that carry energies. We thus consider sending a photon to a perfect mirror and transmitting its wave to a receiver, which by gaining energy obtains the sought information.
Keywords: Beam Splitter, Dark Matter/Energy, Interferometry Energy Distribution, Interference-Free Measurement, Wave-Particle Duality.

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