Improving the capacity of quantum dense coding with both spontaneous emission and dephasing by non-Hermitian operation

Abstract Using a non-Hermitian operation approach, we propose a scheme to improve quantum dense coding of a qubit-qubit system interacting with a zero-temperature reservoir with both spontaneous emission and dephasing. By solving the master equation of the two-qubit system, we numerically obtain the final capacity of quantum dense coding. The numerical results show explicitly that the non-Hermitian operation indeed helps to improve the non-Hermitian operation from amplitude-phase decoherence. In particular, non-Hermitian operations can protect quantum dense coding more efficiently in the case of strong decay rates than those with small decay rates.