Generalized quantum state sharing of arbitrary unknown two-qubit state

We propose a scheme for cloning an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state and its orthogonal complement state with the assistance from the state preparer. Our scheme includes two stages. The first stage requires a quantum teleportation process, in which an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state can be deterministically teleported from the sender to the receiver with χ-type entangled states as the quantum channel. In the second stage, with the assistance of the state preparer, either a perfect copy or an orthogonal complement state of an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state can be obtained with a certain probability.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how to teleport a low-dimensional (two-dimensional) arbitrary unknown two-qubit cat-like state through a high-dimensional entangled state constituting the quantum channel. We first present a scheme employing a maximally entangled three-qutrit state as the channel. Within this scheme, the sender performs a single-qubit projective measurement and a non-symmetric basis measurement on their particles. Based on these measurement outcomes, the receiver applies specific unitary operations to reconstruct the original cat-like state. Subsequently, the maximally entangled channel is replaced with a non-maximally entangled three-qutrit state. For this probabilistic teleportation scheme, the target state is reconstructed by introducing an auxiliary qubit and performing appropriate operations; the corresponding success probability is derived. Analysis indicates that the non-maximally entangled scheme generalizes the previous maximally entangled approach. Furthermore, both schemes are shown to be directly extendable to quantum channels formed by arbitrary high-dimensional entangled states.

We propose a new protocol of bidirectional and asymmetric quantum controlled teleportation, using a maximally seven-qubit entangled state as the quantum channel. That is to say Alice wants to transmit an arbitrary single qubit state (an arbitrary two-qubit state) to Bob and Bob wants to transmit an arbitrary two-qubit state (an arbitrary single state) to Alice via the control of the supervisor Charlie.

Recently Muralidharan and Panigrahi (Phys. Rev. A 78, 062333 2008) had shown that using a five-qubit cluster state as quantum channel, it is possible to teleport an arbitrary single-qubit state and an arbitrary two-qubit state. In this paper, we investigate this channel for the teleportation of a special form of three-qubit state.

We propose a scheme for asymmetric bidirectional controlled teleportation by using a six-qubit cluster state as quantum channel. In our scheme, Alice can transmit an arbitrary two-qubit entangled state to Bob and at the same time Bob can teleport an arbitrary single-qubit state to Alice under the control of the supervisor Charlie.

Qubits are realized as polarization state of photons or as superpositions of the spin states of electrons. In this paper we propose a scheme to probabilistically teleport an unknown arbitrary two-qubit state using a non-maximally entangled GHZ-like state and a non-maximally Bell state simultaneously as quantum channels. We also discuss the success probability of our scheme. We perform POVM in the protocol which is operationally advantageous. In our scheme we show that the non-maximal quantum resources perform better than maximal resources.

We propose a new protocol for quantum teleportation (QT) which adopts the Brown state as the quantum channel. This work focuses on the teleportation of a single unknown two-qubit state via a Brown state channel in an ideal environment. To validate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme, we conduct experiments by using the quantum circuit simulator Quirk. Furthermore, we investigate the effects of four noisy channels, namely, the phase damping noise, the bit-flip noise, the amplitude damping noise, and the phase-flip noise. Notably, we employ Monte Carlo simulation to elucidate the fidelity density under various noise parameters. Our analysis demonstrates that the fidelity of the protocol in a noisy environment is influenced significantly by the amplitude of the initial state and the noise factor.

We demonstrate that two independent spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg trimer chains provide an effective platform for the quantum teleportation of any entangled two-qubit state through the quantum communication channel formed by two Heisenberg dimers. The reliability of this quantum channel is assessed by comparing the concurrences, which quantify a strength of the bipartite entanglement of the initial input state and the readout output state. Additionally, we rigorously calculate quantities fidelity and average fidelity to evaluate the quality of the teleportation protocol depending on temperature and magnetic field. It is evidenced that the efficiency of quantum teleportation of arbitrary entangled two-qubit state through this quantum communication channel can be significantly enhanced by moderate magnetic fields. This enhancement can be attributed to the magnetic-fielddriven transition from a quantum antiferromagnetic phase to a quantum ferrimagnetic phase, which supports realization of a fully entangled quantum channel suitable for efficient quantum teleportation. The polymeric trimer chains Cu3(P2O6OH)2 are proposed as an experimental resource of this quantum communication channel, which provides an efficient platform for realization of the quantum teleportation up to moderate temperatures 40 K and extremely high magnetic fields 80 T.

We propose two controlled remote state preparation protocols via partially entangled channels. One prepares a single-qubit state, and the other prepares a two-qubit state. Different from other controlled remote state preparation schemes which also utilize partially entangled channels, neither auxiliary qubits nor two-qubit unitary transformations are required in our schemes, and the success probabilities are independent of the coefficients of the quantum channel. The success probabilities are 50 and 25 % for arbitrary single-qubit states and two-qubit states, respectively. We also show that the success probabilities can reach 100 % for restricted classes of states.

We consider the geometric global quantum discord (GGQD) of two-qubit systems. By analyzing the symmetry of geometric global quantum discord we give an approach for deriving analytical formulae of the extremum problem which lies at the core of computing the GGQD for arbitrary two-qubit states. Furthermore, formulae of GGQD of arbitrary two-qubit states and some concrete examples are presented.

By using positive operator-valued measure (POVM) instead of the more commonly used collective unitary operation in the quantum teleportation process, Zhan’s scheme (Zhan in Phys. Lett. A 336:317, 2005) is generalized to treat an arbitrary (not a special class of) unknown two-qubit entangled state. Generally speaking, conditioned on Victor’s classical message, Alice can create either a copy or an orthogonal-complement copy of the original state. However, it is shown that Alice’s perfect clone can be realized with higher probability or even in a deterministic manner via an appropriate unitary operation provided that the state to be cloned is chosen from six special ensembles.

A new representation of an arbitrary and unknown N-particle state is presented at first. As an application, a scheme for teleporting an arbitrary and unknown N-particle state is proposed when N pairs of two-particle non-maximally entangled states are utilized as quantum channels. After Alice (sender) makes Bell-state measurement on her particles, Bob (recipient) introduces an auxiliary particle and carries out appropriate unitary transformation on his particle and the auxiliary particle depending on classical information from Alice. Then, von Neumann measurement that confirms whether the teleportation succeeds or not is performed by Bob on the auxiliary particle. In order to complete the teleportation, another N-1 times operations need to be performed which are similar to the above ones. It can be successfully realized with a certain probability which is determined by the product of the smaller coefficients of non-maximally entangled pairs. All possible unitary transformations are given in detail.

We analyze the optimal measurements accessing classical correlations in arbitrary two-qubit states. Two-qubit states can be transformed into the canonical forms via local unitary operations. For the canonical forms, we investigate the probability distribution of the optimal measurements. The probability distribution of the optimal measurement is found to be centralized in the vicinity of a specific von Neumann measurement, which we call the maximal-correlation-direction measurement (MCDM). We prove that for the states with zero-discord and maximally mixed marginals, the MCDM is the very optimal measurement. Furthermore, we give an upper bound of quantum discord based on the MCDM, and investigate its performance for approximating the quantum discord.

Nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence (NAQC) based on coherence complementarity relations is generally viewed as a stronger nonclassical correlation than Bell nonlocality. An arbitrary two-qubit state with NAQC must be an entangled state, which demonstrates that the criterion of NAQC can also be regarded as an entanglement witness. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the NAQC for Bell-diagonal states with high fidelity in an optics-based platform. We perform local measurements on a subsystem in three mutually unbiased bases and reconstruct the density matrices of the measured states by quantum state tomography process. By analyzing characteristic of the $l_1$ norm, relative entropy and skew information of coherence with parameters of quantum states, NAQC for the quantum states is accurately captured, and it shows that our experimental results are well compatible with the theoretical predictions. It is worth mentioning that quantum states with NAQC would have higher entanglement, and thus NAQC could be expected to be a kind of useful physical resource for quantum information processing.

A new scheme for short-distance quantum teleportation of an arbitrary unknown three-dimensional two-qutrit state is proposed, utilizing a three-dimensional Bell-state and a ground-state auxiliary qutrit as quantum channel. In this scheme, both the sender and receiver are required to pre-share an auxiliary qutrit in addition to sharing the three-dimensional Bell state. The sender performs joint measurements on their Bell qutrit and the unknown quantum system after performing quantum gate operations on the auxiliary qutrit, and sends the classical information of the measurement results to the receiver. Based on the measurement results, the receiver converts, with 100% probability, the quantum state of his/her own Bell qutrit and auxiliary qutrit into an exact replica of the unknown quantum state initially altered by the sender. This scheme exhibits advantages such as a short transmission distance, high information capacity, reduced consumption of entanglement resources, and promising applications in quantum teleportation for solid-state devices, such as on-chip implementations.