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Teleportation transfers only speakable quantum information

Giulio Chiribella, Vittorio Giovannetti, Lorenzo Maccone, and Paolo Perinotti
Phys. Rev. A 86, 010304(R) – Published 19 July 2012

Abstract

We show that a quantum clock can not be teleported without prior synchronization between sender and receiver: every protocol using a finite amount of entanglement and an arbitrary number of rounds of classical communication will necessarily introduce an error in the teleported state of the clock. Nevertheless, we show that entanglement can be used to achieve synchronization with precision higher than any classical correlation allows, and we give the optimized strategy for this task. The same results hold also for arbitrary continuous quantum reference frames, which encode general unspeakable information, information that can not be encoded into a number, but instead requires a specific physical support, such as a clock or a gyroscope, to be conveyed.

  • Received 5 August 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.010304

©2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Giulio Chiribella1, Vittorio Giovannetti2, Lorenzo Maccone3, and Paolo Perinotti3

  • 1Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 2NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore & CNR-INFM, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126, Pisa, Italy
  • 3QUIT group, Dipartimento Fisica, Università di Pavia and INFN, via A. Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

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Vol. 86, Iss. 1 — July 2012

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