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Phys. Rev. A 65, 012320 (2001) [6 pages]

From classical state swapping to quantum teleportation

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N. David Mermin
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501

Received 29 May 2001; published 14 December 2001

The quantum teleportation protocol is extracted directly out of a standard classical circuit that exchanges the states of two qubits using only controlled-NOT gates. This construction of teleportation from a classically transparent circuit generalizes straightforwardly to d-state systems.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.012320
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.65.012320
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.67.Lx