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The process for transferring qubits between locations
You are totally right in your assumption about transporting qubits from Alice to Bob implies something physical. Usually problems/situations that have this setup of a transmission between two parties ...
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What is a flying qubit?
Preliminary - The DiVincenzo criteria for a 'normal' quantum computer
The DiVincenzo criteria, as originally proposed by DiVincenzo, are $5$ criteria that he originally proposed in his seminal 2000 ...
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Does entanglement allow enhanced communication efficiency?
First, about teleportation, you say that you think quantum communication takes place in the protocol, but it doesn't. They only share an EPR pair they created together, hence the coordination and ...
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How many bits do Alice and Bob needs to compare to make sure the channel is secure in BB84?
Your analysis of Eve's cheating doesn't seem quite right (although the final answer is correct). What you need to say is: Assume Alice prepares a particular state in one of the bases. You could assume ...
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Can $2^n$ bits be sent with $n$ instances of quantum teleportation?
Quantum teleportation can send a single qubit from Alice to Bob, with two classical bits
Correct, on the condition that Alice and Bob also have an entangled qubit pair shared between them. This ...
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Quantum entanglement for faster-than-light (FTL) network communication?
As this is one of the first examples in Nielsen & Chuang, I'll go ahead and type out their explanation here for anyone else that is interested in entanglement for faster than light communication.
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Protocol for entaglement swapping
For two parties to share an EPR pair means that each party has one qubit, and these two qubits together are in state $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|00\rangle + |11\rangle)$ (or one of the other Bell pairs).
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Quantum teleportation: second classical bit for removing entanglement?
Your initial calculations are correct. When Alice performs her first measurement and gets a 0 outcome then, as you say, Alice and Bob are left sharing a two-qubit state
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|\Psi\rangle=\alpha|00\...
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Can superdense coding be made more efficient?
No, you can't send more than 2 bits per transmitted qubit. Ultradense Coding would allow FTL Signalling.
The basic problem is that, if either teleportation or superdense coding was slightly more ...
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What is the practical interest of superdense coding?
No, you need to send only one photon (from the pair). The other party could generate entangled pair and send the entangled photon to you. Or it could be the third party that send both of you your ...
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How to prove that $\frac{| x_0 \rangle + | x_1 \rangle}{\sqrt{2}}$ hides one of $x_0$ or $x_1$?
We can bound the amount of information that can be retrieved from $|\psi\rangle$ using Holevo's bound.
Alice and Bob
Let us first reformulate the situation in the terms usually employed in the context ...
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Generalising the standard quantum teleportation protocol: what are the possible unitaries?
A necessary and sufficient condition on the unitary $B$ is that its columns all correspond to maximally entangled states.
There also does not need to be any relationship between the two unitaries ...
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Is it possible to have Quantum Teleportation Protocol without using classical channel?
This "protocol" is completely wrong. The author is simply preparing the state $|\psi\rangle$ on Bob's side and leaving it there untouched. Meanwhile, Alice prepares a maximally entangled ...
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Transmission of information over long distances
No. As far as we know, entangled states do not permit faster than light communication. You might be able to use them for things like doubling bandwidth (see superdense coding) or sending quantum ...
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How to transfer non maximally entangled state to maximally entangled?
The first question that we have to deal with is what is meant by "maximally entangled" in this context. There's no single straightforward notion. In particular, for three qubits, there are two ...
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Advances in Quantum Channel Capacity
Let's recap a bit:
In classical information theory, the analogous formula is the Shannon noisy channel coding theorem. It's charming, because it is basically just a very simple optimization of the ...
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Does the Lieb-Robinson bound constrain the speed of entanglement information transmission?
Entanglement does not transmit information, as follows from the No-communication theorem.
Lieb-Robinson bound is a limit on speed at which perturbation propagates using short-range interactions, for ...
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Quantum communications and "knowledge" of receiving a qubit
If you are talking about the idea that the quantum state is encoded on a physical system (perhaps an atom), and that system can be sent from Alice to Bob, then yes, you can detect the presence of the ...
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BB84 Protocol Alice Choice to Bob
That’s the public discussion stage: Alice and Bob can both announce which basis they chose for each round. If they happened to pick the same basis on a given round, they know that (in a perfect world) ...
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Applying CNOT with local operations and two EPR pairs
Here is an idea of how could this be solved. It is based on teleportation.
First, Alice teleports her qubit by means of one of the EPR pairs that she shares with Bob. In order to do that, she sends ...
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Collective measurements: importance and realization
Collective measurements are normal measurements. You just need to be clear on the setting under which they are operating. I haven't delved deeply into the specific paper you mention (so it's always ...
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Eavesdropping in superdense coding: why can't the third party infer anything about the message?
Mathematically, this has nothing to do with the positivity of $E$. It doesn't really have anything to do with $E$ at all - it's a property of the Bell states themselves (you've probably not got there ...
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Does entanglement allow communication of user specified information or not?
An entangled quantum state, where one subsystem is held by each party, and there is no other communication, cannot be used to achieve communication.
The two classes of operation that one party could ...
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Why is measurement needed in teleportation?
measurements in every circuit can be postponed or never performed in a circuit while achieving the same functionality of the circuit
That's correct. But if the circuit involves two parties, this ...
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What is the quantum state transmitted to Bob in BB84 protocol?
Application of Hadamard gates changes states $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ followingly:
$\mathrm{H}|0\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|0\rangle + |1\rangle)$
$\mathrm{H}|1\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|0\...
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If Alice and Bob share only classical communication resources, is shared entanglement always equivalent to shared randomness?
Entanglement + a classical channels allows you to build a quantum channel using teleportation. Thus, adding a quantum channel does not give you additional power.
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Is it possible to have Quantum Teleportation Protocol without using classical channel?
No. If no classical information is transmitted from Alice to Bob, then Bob's state is completely unaffected by anything that happens on Alice's side. This means, in particular, that no information ...
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Can joint measurement be achieved in two labs far apart?
TL;DR No. Non-local gates and measurements between causally disconnected observers violate the no-signalling theorem and are therefore impossible.
No-signalling theorem
The following protocol allows ...
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Is it advantageous for a state to have higher Bell CHSH violation?
Yes, the CHSH game/scenario is an example of a robust self-test.
What this means is that if you obtain a value that is close to the optimal Bell violation, then the state $\hat{\rho}$ and the ...
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Why is measurement needed in teleportation?
To answer this, contrast quantum teleportation with the swap gate. Ignoring everything in the middle, the effect of quantum teleportation is to get from state $|\phi00\rangle$ to $|00\phi\rangle$. ...
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