A Note on Interlaced Quantum Teleportation
Brendan Fong
Abstract
In Higher Quantum Theory [2], Vicary outlines a generalisation of the usual quantum teleportation protocol, based on the idea of interlacing two separate teleportation procedures. We show here that the protocol he specifies is impossible to implement with qubits. 1 Background An appealing strength of categorical quantum mechanics, initiated by Abramsky and Coecke [1], is that the categorical framework gives a graphical language for expressing quantum operations. Vicary has extended this framework to 2-categories, allowing regions of space that represent classical information [2]. This, to give an example, allows the quantum teleportation protocol to be expressed by the following equality of diagrams, where μ represents measurement with respect to some basis, and ν is a correction corresponding to the measurement outcome: