arXiv:2310.12227 · Quantum
Quantum teleportation implies symmetry-protected topological order
Yifan Hong, David T. Stephen, Aaron J. Friedman
Abstract
We constrain a broad class of teleportation protocols using insights from locality. In the ``standard'' teleportation protocols we consider, all outcome-dependent unitaries are Pauli operators conditioned on linear functions of the measurement outcomes. We find that all such protocols involve preparing a ``resource state'' exhibiting symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order with Abelian protecting symmetry Gk=(Z2×Z2)k . The k logical states are teleported between the edges of the chain by measuring the corresponding 2k string order parameters in the bulk and applying outcome-dependent Paulis. Hence, this single class of nontrivial SPT states is both necessary and sufficient for the standard teleportation of k qubits. We illustrate this result with several examples, including the cluster state, variants thereof, and a nonstabilizer hypergraph state.