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Reversible quantum operations and their application to teleportation

M. A. Nielsen, Carlton M. Caves

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9608001

Abstract

Quantum operations provide a general description of the state changes allowed by quantum mechanics. Simple necessary and sufficient conditions for an ideal quantum operation to be reversible by a unitary operation are derived in this paper. These results generalize recent work on reversible measurements by Mabuchi and Zoller [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3108 (1996)]. Quantum teleportation can be understood as a special case of the problem of reversing quantum operations. We characterize completely teleportation schemes of the type proposed by Bennett et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1895 (1993)].

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