Teleportation of an atomic state via cavity decay
Sougato Bose, P. L. Knight, Martin Bodo Plenio, Vlatko Vedral
Abstract
We show how the state of an atom trapped in a cavity can be teleported to an atom trapped in a distant cavity simply by detecting photon decays from the cavities. This is a rare example of a decay mechanism being made to play a constructive role in quantum information processing. The scheme is comparatively easy to implement, requiring the minimal technology of being able to trap a single three level atom in a cavity.