Noisy quantum teleportation: An experimental study on the influence of local environments

Laura T. Knoll, Christian T. Schmiegelow, and Miguel A. Larotonda
Phys. Rev. A 90, 042332 – Published 28 October 2014

Abstract

We report experimental results on the action of selected local environments on the fidelity of the quantum teleportation protocol, taking into account nonideal, realistic entangled resources. Different working conditions are theoretically identified, where a noisy protocol can be made almost insensitive to the further addition of noise. We put to test these conditions on a photonic implementation of the quantum teleportation algorithm, where two polarization entangled qubits act as the entangled resource and a path qubit on Alice encodes the state to be teleported. Bob's path qubit is used to implement a local environment, while the environment on Alice's qubit is simulated as a weighted average of different pure states. We obtain a good agreement with the theoretical predictions, experimentally recreate the conditions to obtain a noise-induced enhancement of the protocol fidelity, and identify parameter regions of increased insensibility to interactions with specific noisy environments.

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  • Received 26 August 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.042332

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Laura T. Knoll, Christian T. Schmiegelow, and Miguel A. Larotonda

  • DEILAP, CITEDEF, J.B. de La Salle 4397, 1603 Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Vol. 90, Iss. 4 — October 2014

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