In distributed quantum computing, quantum networks provide a potential infrastructure for long-range quantum information processing. Controlled quantum teleportation (CQT) is a key practically relevant protocol that can connect two parties on a network and enables a third party, the controller to allow or abort the secure teleportation of an arbitrary single-qubit state between the two parties. We investigate the robustness of a three-qubit GHZ resource under bit-flip, phase-flip, depolarizing, and amplitude-damping noise. Using the Kraus-operator formalism, we characterize the noisy resource through multipartite quantum discord, genuine multipartite concurrence (GMC), localizable entanglement (LE), and CQT fidelity. We also outline a proof-of-concept photonic implementation for preparing the three-qubit GHZ resource and realizing the CQT protocol, which could enable experimental investigation of the effects of noise. Our results show that bit-flip and amplitude-damping noise generally preserve useful mutipartite quantum correlations over broader noise parameter ranges. Interestingly, multipartite discord exhibits freezing under bit-flip noise over a finite parameter regime. Moreover, discord can persist beyond the sudden death of genuine multipartite entanglement, revealing the distinct robustness of nonclassical correlations. We further demonstrate that CQT fidelity which characterizes the performance of CQT can exceed the classical threshold even after GMC vanishes, while LE more closely reflects the operational usefulness of the noisy resource. These findings highlight the complementary roles of quantum correlations and entanglement in assessing the resilience of GHZ-based protocols.
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In distributed quantum computing, quantum networks provide a potential infrastructure for long-range quantum information processing. Controlled quantum teleportation (CQT) is a key practically relevant protocol that can connect two parties on a network and enables a third party, the controller to allow or abort the secure teleportation of an arbitrary single-qubit state between the two parties. We investigate the robustness of a three-qubit GHZ resource under bit-flip, phase-flip, depolarizing, and amplitude-damping noise. Using the Kraus-operator formalism, we characterize the noisy resource through multipartite quantum discord, genuine multipartite concurrence (GMC), localizable entanglement (LE), and CQT fidelity. We also outline a proof-of-concept photonic implementation for preparing the three-qubit GHZ resource and realizing the CQT protocol, which could enable experimental investigation of the effects of noise. Our results show that bit-flip and amplitude-damping noise generally preserve useful mutipartite quantum correlations over broader noise parameter ranges. Interestingly, multipartite discord exhibits freezing under bit-flip noise over a finite parameter regime. Moreover, discord can persist beyond the sudden death of genuine multipartite entanglement, revealing the distinct robustness of nonclassical correlations. We further demonstrate that CQT fidelity which characterizes the performance of CQT can exceed the classical threshold even after GMC vanishes, while LE more closely reflects the operational usefulness of the noisy resource. These findings highlight the complementary roles of quantum correlations and entanglement in assessing the resilience of GHZ-based protocols.
Preserving entanglement during the teleportation of multipartite quantum states is a central challenge in continuous-variable quantum communication, particularly when experimentally feasible finite-dimensional entangled resources are employed. In this work, we investigate whether the entanglement of a two-mode continuous-variable state can be preserved when only one of its modes is teleported through a multimode interferometry-based protocol using a three-dimensional discrete entangled channel. Two representative entangled states, namely the two-mode squeezed vacuum and discrete-modulation states, are considered under both ideal conditions and four standard quantum noise channels: bit-flip, phase-flip, depolarizing, and amplitude-damping. The protocol is evaluated in terms of teleportation fidelity, success probability, logarithmic negativity, Wigner-function evolution, and state purity to provide a comprehensive assessment of both teleportation quality and entanglement preservation. The results show that, in the absence of noise, the protocol preserves most of the initial entanglement while maintaining high teleportation fidelity. Under noisy conditions, the residual entanglement remains remarkably robust against amplitude-damping and phase-flip noise, whereas bit-flip noise causes the most pronounced degradation. The phase-space structure and purity of the teleported states are likewise largely retained over a broad range of noise strengths. These findings demonstrate that multimode interferometry with finite-dimensional entangled channels provides an effective and noise-resilient approach for preserving continuous-variable entanglement during quantum teleportation, offering a practical route toward realistic quantum communication networks.
Preserving entanglement during the teleportation of multipartite quantum states is a central challenge in continuous-variable quantum communication, particularly when experimentally feasible finite-dimensional entangled resources are employed. In this work, we investigate whether the entanglement of a two-mode continuous-variable state can be preserved when only one of its modes is teleported through a multimode interferometry-based protocol using a three-dimensional discrete entangled channel. Two representative entangled states, namely the two-mode squeezed vacuum and discrete-modulation states, are considered under both ideal conditions and four standard quantum noise channels: bit-flip, phase-flip, depolarizing, and amplitude-damping. The protocol is evaluated in terms of teleportation fidelity, success probability, logarithmic negativity, Wigner-function evolution, and state purity to provide a comprehensive assessment of both teleportation quality and entanglement preservation. The results show that, in the absence of noise, the protocol preserves most of the initial entanglement while maintaining high teleportation fidelity. Under noisy conditions, the residual entanglement remains remarkably robust against amplitude-damping and phase-flip noise, whereas bit-flip noise causes the most pronounced degradation. The phase-space structure and purity of the teleported states are likewise largely retained over a broad range of noise strengths. These findings demonstrate that multimode interferometry with finite-dimensional entangled channels provides an effective and noise-resilient approach for preserving continuous-variable entanglement during quantum teleportation, offering a practical route toward realistic quantum communication networks.
Abstract Quantum teleportation fundamentally depends on shared quantum correlations between spatially separated parties. Although entanglement is widely recognized as the primary resource enabling teleportation, quantum discord represents a more general form of nonclassical correlations that can persist even when entanglement is absent. We provide a thorough analysis combining analytical and numerical evaluations of quantum discord, negativity, and concurrence across varying noise parameters. The study includes simulations under both ide-alized and realistic noisy conditions, incorporating depolarizing noise models alongside experimentally relevant constraints. To improve quantum fidelity and accurately characterize quantum correlations in noisy environments, advanced error mitigation techniques—such as measurement error correction and zero-noise extrapolation—are applied. In this study, we focus on teleportation protocols utilizing two-qubit Werner states, which constitute a significant class of noisy mixed states modeling imperfect entanglement. We systematically examine how the teleportation fidelity varies as a function of the Werner mixing parameter λ and investigate its relationship with the corresponding quantum discord. Our findings indicate that quantum discord remains strictly greater than zero even in parameter regions where entanglement vanishes, emphasizing the role of discord in sustaining quantum advantages in teleportation schemes exposed to noise and imperfections. This highlights the importance of considering non-entanglement quantum correlations for a comprehensive understanding of teleportation resources in realistic settings.
Quantum teleportation (QT) is the principal method of transferring quantum states from one place to another without actually revealing which quantum state is being transferred. This protocol makes use of entangled states shared between the sending and receiving stations, and two bits of classical information. However, in real communication systems which are used to carry the entangled state, a typical noise results in the degradation of the fidelity of teleported states. The protocol of controlled quantum teleportation (CQT) represents an extension to the standard quantum teleportation (SQT) with includes the third entity, so called “controller“, and is based on sharing of a tripartite entangled quantum state. The role of controller is to permit the fidelity of teleported state to be higher than it can be done using only classical resources.
As a typical noise has detrimental effect on the performance of quantum teleportation protocols, In this work, a study of different noisy channels, which can exhibit the Markovian or non-Markovian dynamics is presented. Each noisy channel is characterized by the teleportation fidelity and by the control power.
Teleporting an unknown qubit state is a paradigmatic quantum information processing task revealing the advantage of quantum communication protocols over their classical counterpart. For a teleportation protocol using a Bell state as quantum channel, the resource has been identified to be the concurrence. However, for mixed multipartite states the lack of computable entanglement measures has made the identification of the quantum resource responsible for this advantage more challenging. Here, by building on previous results showing that localizable concurrence is the necessary resource for controlled quantum teleportation, we show that any teleportation protocol using an arbitrary multipartite state, that includes a Bell measurement, requires a nonvanishing localizable concurrence between two of its parties to perform better than the classical protocol. By first analyzing Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) channel and GHZ measurement teleportation protocol, in the presence of GHZ-symmetric-preserving noise, we compare different multipartite entanglement measures with the fidelity of teleportation, and we find that the protocol performs better than the classical protocol when all multipartite entanglement measures vanish, except for the localizable concurrence. Finally, we extend our proof to an arbitrary teleportation protocol with an arbitrary multipartite entangled channel.
We study the entanglement dynamics of n=2,3,4-qubit Bell- and GHZ-type states under an amplitude-damping channel (ADC). We quantify multipartite entanglement using the genuine multipartite concurrence (GMC) and evaluate its utility through the optimal teleportation fidelity. For 2-qubit states, we analyze the standard (Bennett) teleportation protocol. For 3- and 4-qubit states, we study controlled quantum teleportation (CQT) with one and two \emph{controllers}, respectively. Entanglement sudden death (ESD) denotes the abrupt, finite-time disappearance of entanglement caused by decoherence in contrast to asymptotic decay. To counteract ESD, we apply local NOT (σ^x) operations on m of the n qubits (m≤n) and derive analytic formulae, revealing that a single-NOT operation often suffices to alter ESD into asymptotic decay when handling GMC. In contrast, teleportation fidelity can decay more rapidly for single-NOT flipped states, whereas flipping all qubits is more useful for preserving teleportation fidelity in certain regimes, highlighting that the amount of entanglement alone does not guarantee teleportation utility. Remarkably, in the case of GHZ-type states, ADC-evolved mixed biseparable states can be exploited successfully in the CQT protocol. Further, using the GHZ-symmetric parametrization, we map the 2- and 3-qubit ADC-evolved mixed states onto a (x,y) plane, revealing their SLOCC (Stochastic Local Operations and Classical Communication) entanglement classes. We also explicitly check the Bell-CHSH nonlocality hierarchy in the 2-qubit teleportation alongside localizable-entanglement diagnostics for 3-qubit CQT. Our results clarify the distinct roles of global versus localizable bipartite correlations and suggest simple, experimentally accessible unitary controls for preserving useful quantum resources in noisy channels.