arXiv:quant-ph/0111109
Effects of noisy entangled state transmission on quantum teleportation
Holger Friedrich Hofmann, Kenji Tsujino, Shigeki Takeuchi
Abstract
Quantum teleportation requires the transmission of entangled pairs to Alice and Bob. Transmission errors modify the entangled state before the teleportation can be performed. We determine the changes in the output state caused by such transmission errors. It is shown that the errors caused by entanglement transmission are equivalent to the errors caused in a direct transmission of a quantum state from Alice to Bob.