Experimental realization of teleporting an unknown pure quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels. (English) Zbl 0947.81004

Boschi, D.; Branca, S.; De Martini, F.; Hardy, L.; Popescu, S.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, No. 6, 1121-1125 (1998).

Summary: We report on a quantum optical experimental implementation of teleportation of unknown pure quantum states. This realizes all of the nonlocal aspects of the original scheme proposed by Bennett et al. and is equivalent to it up to a local operation. We exhibit results for the teleportation of a linearly polarized state and of an elliptically polarized state. We show that the experimental results cannot be explained in terms of a classical channel alone. The Bell measurement in our experiment can distinguish between all four Bell states simultaneously allowing, in the ideal case, a 100% success rate of teleportation.

MSC:

81P05

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory

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