Physica Scripta
Ensemble teleportation under suboptimal conditions
Stephan Blankenburg, Stefan Martin Wippermann, Thomas Krüger
Abstract
The possibility of teleportation is certainly the most interesting consequence of quantum non-separability. In the present paper, the feasibility of teleportation is examined on the basis of the rigorous ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics if non-ideal constraints are imposed on the teleportation scheme. Importance is attached both to the case of noisy Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) ensembles and to the conditions under which automatic teleportation is still possible. The success of teleportation is discussed using a new fidelity measure which avoids the weaknesses of previous proposals.