arXiv:quant-ph/9908004 · Physical Review Letters
Proposal for 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 a second atom trapped in a distant cavity simply by detecting photon decays from the cavities. This is a rare example of a decay mechanism playing a constructive role in quantum information processing. The scheme is comparatively easy to implement, requiring only the ability to trap a single three level atom in a cavity.