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arXiv:1906.01394 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Fidelity deviation in quantum teleportation with a two-qubit state

Arkaprabha Ghosal, Debarshi Das, Saptarshi Roy, Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Published Jan 22, 2020• 12 citations
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Abstract Quantum teleportation with an arbitrary two-qubit state can be appropriately characterized in terms of maximal fidelity and fidelity deviation. The former quantifies optimality of the process and is defined as the maximal average fidelity achievable within the standard protocol and local unitary strategies, whereas the latter, defined as the standard deviation of fidelity over all input states, is a measure of fidelity fluctuations. The maximal fidelity for a two-qubit state is known and is given by a simple formula that can be exactly computed, but no such formula is known for the fidelity deviation. In this paper, we derive an exact computable formula for the fidelity deviation in optimal quantum teleportation with an arbitrary state of two qubits. From this formula, we obtain the dispersion-free condition, also known as the universality condition: the condition that all input states are teleported equally well and provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a state to be both useful (maximal fidelity larger than the classical bound) and universal (zero fidelity deviation). We also show that for any given maximal fidelity, larger than the classical bound, there always exist dispersion-free or universal states and argue that such states are the most desirable ones within the set of useful states. We illustrate these results with well-known families of two-qubit states: pure entangled states, Bell-diagonal states, and subsets of X states.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8121/ab6ede

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Abstract Quantum teleportation with an arbitrary two-qubit state can be appropriately characterized in terms of maximal fidelity and fidelity deviation. The former quantifies optimality of the process and is defined as the maximal average fidelity achievable within the standard protocol and local unitary strategies, whereas the latter, defined as the standard deviation of fidelity over all input states, is a measure of fidelity fluctuations. The maximal fidelity for a two-qubit state is known and is given by a simple formula that can be exactly computed, but no such formula is known for the fidelity deviation. In this paper, we derive an exact computable formula for the fidelity deviation in optimal quantum teleportation with an arbitrary state of two qubits. From this formula, we obtain the dispersion-free condition, also known as the universality condition: the condition that all input states are teleported equally well and provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a state to be both useful (maximal fidelity larger than the classical bound) and universal (zero fidelity deviation). We also show that for any given maximal fidelity, larger than the classical bound, there always exist dispersion-free or universal states and argue that such states are the most desirable ones within the set of useful states. We illustrate these results with well-known families of two-qubit states: pure entangled states, Bell-diagonal states, and subsets of X states.
Quantum teleportation with a two-qubit state can be suitably characterized in terms of maximal fidelity and fidelity deviation---the former is the maximal value of the average fidelity achievable within the standard protocol and local unitary operations and the latter is the standard deviation of fidelity over all input states. In this paper, we consider the problem of characterizing two-qubit states that are optimal for quantum teleportation for a given value of some state property. The optimal states are defined as those states that, for a given value of the state property under consideration, achieve the largest maximal fidelity and also exhibit zero fidelity deviation. We provide a complete characterization of optimal states for a given linear entropy, maximum mean value of the Bell--Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) observable, and concurrence, respectively. We find that for a given linear entropy or Bell-CHSH violation the largest maximal fidelity states are optimal, but for a given concurrence the optimal states form a strict subset of the largest maximal fidelity states.
Abstract We analyze the performance of quantum teleportation in terms of average fidelity and fidelity deviation. The average fidelity is defined as the average value of the fidelities over all possible input states and the fidelity deviation is their standard deviation, which is referred to as a concept of fluctuation or universality. In the analysis, we find the condition to optimize both measures under a noisy quantum channel—we here consider the so-called Werner channel. To characterize our results, we introduce a 2D space defined by the aforementioned measures, in which the performance of the teleportation is represented as a point with the channel noise parameter. Through further analysis, we specify some regions drawn for different channel conditions, establishing the connection to the dissimilar contributions of the entanglement to the teleportation and the Bell inequality violation.
We consider a scenario where a party, say, Alice prepares a pure two-qubit (either maximally entangled or nonmaximally entangled) state and sends one half of this state to another distant party, say, Bob through a qubit (either unital or nonunital) channel. Finally, the shared state is used as a teleportation channel. In this scenario, we focus on characterizing the set of qubit channels with respect to the final state's efficacy as a resource of quantum teleportation (QT) in terms of maximal average fidelity and fidelity deviation (fluctuation in fidelity values over the input states). Importantly, we point out the existence of a subset of qubit channels for which the final state becomes useful for universal QT (having maximal average fidelity strictly greater than the classical bound and having zero fidelity deviation) when the initially prepared state is either useful for universal QT (i.e., for a maximally entangled state) or not useful for universal QT (i.e., for a subset of nonmaximally entangled pure states). Interestingly, in the latter case, we show that nonunital channels (dissipative interactions) are more effective than unital channels (nondissipative interactions) in producing useful states for universal QT from nonmaximally entangled pure states.
In this work, we study quantum teleportation, a fundamental protocol of quantum physics. In particular, we present a mathematical methodology to study the combined effects of noisy resource state and noisy classical communication on teleportation fidelity and its deviation. We describe a teleportation protocol where an arbitrary two-qubit state in canonical form is used as a resource. Thereafter, to teleport an unknown qubit, Alice measures her qubits in Bell basis and conveys the measurement outcome to Bob via noisy classical channel(s). We derive the exact formulae of optimal teleportation fidelity and corresponding fidelity deviation where the resource state and the classical communication, both can be noisy. To provide the proof of optimality, we provide a systematic method. We further find conditions for non-classical fidelity and dispersion-free teleportation for our teleportation protocol. In this way, we identify noisy environments where it is possible to achieve dispersion-free teleportation without compromising non-classical fidelity. We also demonstrate scenarios where the increase of entanglement in the resource state, may degrade the quality of teleportation — a counter-intuitive instance. Finally, we discuss about the minimum classical communication cost required to achieve non-classical fidelity for our protocol. Here we mainly focus on a possible way to optimize the classical communication cost.
Continuous-variable (CV) quantum teleportation is usually benchmarked by average fidelity, but when the teleportation is repeatedly used within optical networks or measurement-based architectures, uniformity across the input ensemble becomes equally important. We analyze this issue using two complementary figures of merit: the average fidelity and the fidelity deviation, which quantifies the input dependence of the single-shot teleportation fidelity. We prove that any deterministic unity-gain teleportation channel that is displacement covariant has vanishing fidelity deviation for coherent-state benchmarking, irrespective of whether the shared entangled resource is Gaussian or non-Gaussian. Nonzero deviation therefore diagnoses covariance breaking rather than non-Gaussianity. We then show that when a protocol raises the average fidelity through input-selective conditioning, the deviation generically increases in tandem, giving a quantitative universality cost. As a concrete example, we study teleportation enhanced by the so-called measurement-based noiseless linear amplification, where a heralded filter acts on the Bell-measurement record. The resulting trade-off among average fidelity, fidelity deviation, and success probability shows that stronger filtering can improve the conditional fidelity only by concentrating the successful events in favored regions of phase space, thereby suppressing the success probability and reducing input uniformity. Our results provide an operational framework for distinguishing genuine channel improvement from selectivity-driven post-selected advantage and suggest that the probabilistic CV teleportation should be assessed with average quality, universality, and heralding rate treated on an equal footing.
Quantum teleportation is a fundamental protocol in quantum information science, whose performance is conventionally evaluated under the assumption of ideal Bell-state measurements. In realistic implementations, however, joint measurements are often imperfect and can deviate from maximally entangled bases due to coherent errors in entangling operations. In this work, we analytically show how the entanglement of joint measurements determines teleportation performance, and we propose a strategy to overcome the limitations imposed by partially entangled joint measurements to recover the unit teleportation fidelity with a nonzero success probability. This is achieved by optimizing a reversing operation on the teleported state to compensate for the known coherent deformation of the Bell-state measurement. We then derive an exact equation revealing a quantitative relation between measurement entanglement, channel entanglement, and the success probability to realize the unit-fidelity two-qubit teleportation. We illustrate our results using elegant joint measurements and realistic coherent error models arising from imperfect entangling operations in quantum systems. Our work provides fundamental insight into the role of measurement entanglement in quantum teleportation and offers a practical framework for achieving faithful teleportation without requiring substantial modifications to existing hardware.