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arXiv:2105.04338 · Physical Review Letters

Quantum Teleportation between Remote Qubit Memories with Only a Single Photon as a Resource

Stefan Langenfeld, Stephan Welte, Lukas Hartung, Severin Daiss, Philip Thomas, Olivier Morin, Emanuele Distante, Gerhard Rempe

Published Mar 30, 2021• 82 citations
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Abstract

Quantum teleportation enables the deterministic exchange of qubits via lossy channels. While it is commonly believed that unconditional teleportation requires a preshared entangled qubit pair, here we demonstrate a protocol that is in principle unconditional and requires only a single photon as an ex-ante prepared resource. The photon successively interacts, first, with the receiver and then with the sender qubit memory. Its detection, followed by classical communication, heralds a successful teleportation. We teleport six mutually unbiased qubit states with average fidelity F[over ¯]=(88.3±1.3)% at a rate of 6 Hz over 60 m.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.126.130502

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Quantum teleportation enables deterministic and faithful transmission of quantum states, provided a maximally entangled state is preshared between sender and receiver, and a one-way classical channel is available. Here, we prove that these resources are not only sufficient, but also necessary, for deterministically and faithfully sending quantum states through any fixed noisy channel of maximal rank, when a single use of the cannel is admitted. In other words, for this family of channels, there are no other protocols, based on different (and possibly cheaper) sets of resources, capable of replacing quantum teleportation.
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