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Entangled coherent states: teleportation and decoherence

S. J. van Enk, O. Hirota

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0012086

Abstract

When a superposition (|α>-|-α>) of two coherent states with opposite phase falls upon a 50-50 beamsplitter, the resulting state is entangled. Remarkably, the amount of entanglement is exactly 1 ebit, irrespective of α, as was recently discovered by O. Hirota and M. Sasaki. Here we discuss decoherence properties of such states and give a simple protocol that teleports one qubit encoded in Schrödinger cat states

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