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The cost is two classical bits and one entangled Bell pair to teleport a qubit. You make the Bell pair, send one half of it to Alice (who wants to transmit the
by eigenket 4y ago
The cost is two classical bits and one entangled Bell pair to teleport a qubit. You make the Bell pair, send one half of it to Alice (who wants to transmit the qubit) and one half to Bob (who wants to receive it). Alice then does a Bell basis measurement on the qubit she wants to transmit and the half of Bell pair she owns.
The Bell basis measurement has four outcomes. For convenience you can label them
00
01
10
11
Alice tells Bob the measurement outcome she got (this is the part that requires two bits of classical communication), and depending on which outcome she got Bob has to apply either no correction or a Pauli X, Y or Z gate.
This is known as quantum teleportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
and has quite a long history at this point (proposed in the early '90s and first performed in the late '90s).
- hackandthink 4y agoThanks, nice explanation.