Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics
Quantum teleportation of canonical variables
Zhang Weijun
Abstract
Two different teleportation protocols are investigated by using two pairs of canonically conjugated observables such as position-momentum and phase-number. The discrete variable and continuous variable quantum teleportation are unified in the framework of canonical quantum teleportation. Canonically conjugated observables are found to play a 3-fold role in the quantum teleportation. Firstly, the common eigenstate of two commuting canonical observables like phase-difference and number-sum provides the quantum channel between two systems. Secondly, a similar pair of canonical observables from another two systems is measured in the Bell operator measurements. Finally, two translations generated by the canonically conjugated observables of a single system constitute the local unitary operation to recover the unknown state.