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a r X i v : c o n d - m a t / 9 9 0 6 4 0 8 v 1 [ c o n d - m a t .s t a t - m e c h ] 2 8 J u n 1 9 9 9 Noise effects for the Depolarizing Channel Julian Juhi-Lian Ting jlting@ (February 1, 2008) The possibility of stochastic resonance of a quantum channel and hence the noise enhanced capacity of the channel is explored by considering the depolarizing channel. The fidelity of the channel is also considered. Although there is no clear evidence for noise enhanced capacity found, there is enhancement for the fidelity for the depolarizing channel. I. INTRODUCTION Recently, because of the development of quantum computers [1] people have become interested in information transmission thorough quantum channels [2]. Quantum information theories can be used to describe processes such as data storage, quantum cryptography [3], and quantum teleportation [4]. However, after an initial burst of papers following Shor’s discovery of quantum factoring algorithm [5], almost every work is aiming to solve the decoherence problem. There are people using NMR techniques, which provide longer decoherence time than previous techniques, claiming they can built a quantum computer with a cup of coffee [6]. There are also people trying to use various software methods, in particular, quantum error correcting codes, to correct decoherence induced errors. Apparently, decoherence is a hurdle need to be surmounted before quantum computers can be materialized. However, is deco- herence, the counterpart of classical noise, really nuisance? For people who know stochastic resonance, the answer is perhaps ’no’. Stochastic resonances in nonlinear dynamics is about noise enhancement of some useful properties of a system. It have been considered for both quantum and classical periodical signals [7]. The consideration for aperiodical signal cases is rather recent [8,9]. However, most works are concerned about classical channels. Therefore, the consideration for quantum channels is of interest in its