Optical quantum teleportation with known amplitude distorting factors of teleported qubits

TL;DR

This paper presents a quantum teleportation protocol for optical single-rail qubits using a hybrid CV-DV channel, allowing partial knowledge of amplitude distortions to improve teleportation fidelity.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hybrid quantum channel with adjustable parameters enabling partial correction of amplitude distortions in optical qubit teleportation.

Findings

Bob recovers the original qubit 50% of the time with optimal parameters.

In the remaining cases, amplitude distortions are known and can be partially corrected.

The protocol generalizes previous teleportation schemes using nonlocal photons as channels.

Abstract

We develop a quantum teleportation protocol of an unknown optical single rail qubit using a hybrid quantum channel composed of continuous variable (CV) states of certain parity. The quantum channel is characterized by two parameters: a squeezing parameter of single-mode squeezed vacuum (SMSV) state and the beam splitter (BS) parameter used to implement it. The CV part of the hybrid state belongs to Alice, while discrete variable (DV) half is controlled by Bob. The third parameter of the protocol is a parameter of the beam splitter, used to mix the CV components of the hybrid quantum state with unknown optical single-rail qubit. Even though the number of measurement results Alice sends may increase, Bob can obtain the original qubit half the time with an appropriate choice of parameter values. In almost half the remaining cases, Bob obtains the original qubit with distorted amplitudes, and both participants know the value of the distortion factors. This means that as the amount of classical information transmitted by Alice increases, they both gain greater access to partial information about the unitary transformations that the teleported qubits undergo, allowing Bob to continue using them or attempt to recover them to improve the protocol's efficiency. The proposed method is a generalization of quantum teleportation with a nonlocal photon used as a quantum channel and unknown single-rail optical qubit.