Experimental realization of freely propagating teleported qubits

Jian-Wei Pan (), Sara Gasparoni, Markus Aspelmeyer, Thomas Jennewein and Anton Zeilinger
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Jian-Wei Pan: Universität Wien
Sara Gasparoni: Universität Wien
Markus Aspelmeyer: Universität Wien
Thomas Jennewein: Universität Wien
Anton Zeilinger: Universität Wien

Nature, 2003, vol. 421, issue 6924, 721-725

Abstract: Abstract Quantum teleportation1 is central to quantum communication, and plays an important role in a number of quantum computation protocols2,3. Most information-processing applications of quantum teleportation include the subsequent manipulation of the qubit (the teleported photon), so it is highly desirable to have a teleportation procedure resulting in high-quality, freely flying qubits. In our previous teleportation experiment4, the teleported qubit had to be detected (and thus destroyed) to verify the success of the procedure. Here we report a teleportation experiment that results in freely propagating individual qubits. The basic idea is to suppress unwanted coincidence detection events by providing the photon to be teleported much less frequently than the auxiliary entangled pair. Therefore, a case of successful teleportation can be identified with high probability without the need actually to detect the teleported photon. The experimental fidelity of our procedure surpasses the theoretical limit required for the implementation of quantum repeaters5,6.

Date: 2003
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