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Criteria for Continuous-Variable Quantum Teleportation

Samuel L. Braunstein, Christopher A. Fuchs, H. J. Kimble

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9910030

Abstract

We derive an experimentally testable criterion for the teleportation of quantum states of continuous variables. This criterion is especially relevant to the recent experiment of Furusawa et al. [Science 282, 706-709 (1998)] where an input-output fidelity of 0.58 0.02 was achieved for optical coherent states. Our derivation demonstrates that fidelities greater than 1/2 could not have been achieved through the use of a classical channel alone; quantum entanglement was a crucial ingredient in the experiment.

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