An N-dimensional quantum telecloning process combining quantum teleportation and optimal quantum cloning is presented.The scheme requires less entanglement between the two sides,representing a much more efficient than the approach where Alice first clones her particle and then teleports these states.
A scheme combining three processes of quantum teleportation, optimal universal quantum flipping and optimal universal quantum cloning for universal teleflipping and telecloning of arbitrary qubit is proposed. When a particular four-particle entangled state shared by the sender and three spatially separated receivers is used as quantum information channel, after the sender's Bell measurement, class ical communication and each receiver's local unitary operation, one receiver can get one orthogonal complementing state of the original unknown state with the o ptimal fidelity of 2/3, the other two receivers can respectively get one copy of the original unknown state with the optimal fidelity of 5/6. This scheme implem ents the universal quantum teleflipping and telecloning simultaneously with corr esponding optimal fidelity by using the reduced entanglement. The key to realizi ng this scheme is the construction of the particular four-particle entangled sta te shared by the sender and three receivers used as quantum information channel. The entanglement structure of the special four-particle entangled state is anal yzed.
Telecloning is a protocol introduced by Murao et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 156 (1999)] to distribute copies of an unknown quantum state to many receivers in a way that beats the trivial ``clone-and-teleport'' protocol. In the last decade, a new type of teleportation called port-based teleportation, in which the receiver can recover the state simply by looking at the correct port without having to actively perform correction operations, has been widely studied. In this paper, we consider the analog of telecloning, in which conventional teleportation is replaced by the port-based variant. To achieve this, we generalize the optimal measurement used in port-based teleportation and develop a new one that achieves port-based telecloning. Numerical results show that, in certain cases, the proposed protocol is strictly better than the trivial clone-and-teleport approach.
Quantum teleportation is the disembodied transport of an unknown quantum state |ψ〉 from one place to another. All protocols for accomplishing such transport require nonlocal correlations, or entanglement, between systems shared by sender and receiver. The sender is normally called Alice and the receiver is called Bob . Most attention has focused on teleporting the states of finite-dimensional systems, such as the two-dimensional polarization of a photon or the discrete level structure of an atom. First proposed in 1993 by Charles Bennett and his colleagues [17, 24, 138] quantum teleporation thus allows physicists to take a photon or any other quantum scale particle such as an atom and transfer its properties (such as the polarization) to another photon even if the two photons are on opposite sides of the galaxy. This scheme transports the particle’s properties to the remote location and not the particle itself. The state of the original particle must be destroyed to create an exact reconstruction at the other end. This is a consequence of the no cloning theorem. A role in the teleportation scheme is played by an entangled ancillary pair of particles which will be initially shared by Alice and Bob.
We report an experimental realization of both optimal asymmetric cloning and telecloning of single photons by making use of partial teleportation of an unknown state. In the experiment, we demonstrate that, conditioned on the success of partial teleportation of single photons, not only the optimal asymmetric cloning can be accomplished, but also one of two outputs can be transferred to a distant location, realizing the telecloning. The experimental results represent a novel way to achieve quantum cloning and may have potential applications in the context of quantum communication.