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Teleportation of Quantum States

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Encyclopedia of Algorithms

Synonyms

Quantum teleportation; Teleportation

Years and Authors of Summarized Original Work

  • 1993; Bennett, Brassard, Crepeau, Jozsa, Peres, Wootters

Problem Definition

Suppose there are two spatially separated parties Alice and Bob and Alice wants to send a quantum state consisting of n quantum bits (qubits) ρ to Bob. Since classical communication is much more reliable, and possibly cheaper, than quantum communication, it is desirable that this task be achieved by communicating just classical bits. Such a procedure is referred to as teleportation.

Unfortunately, it is easy to argue that this is in fact not possible if arbitrary quantum states need to be communicated faithfully. However, Bennett, Brassard, Crepeau, Jozsa, Peres, and Wootters [8] presented a nice solution to it by modifying the assumptions about the resources that are available to Alice and Bob.

Key Results

Let \(\{\vert 0\rangle,\vert 1\rangle \}\)be the standard basis for the state space of one quantum bit (which is...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Anurag Anshu

  2. Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Vamsi Krishna Devabathini

  3. Department of Computer Science, Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Rahul Jain

  4. Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

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    Ming-Yang Kao

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Anshu, A., Devabathini, V.K., Jain, R., Mukhopadhyay, P. (2016). Teleportation of Quantum States. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_421

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