<title>Continuous-variable quantum teleportation of squeezed coherent states</title>

Abstract

ABSTRACT We propose a setup for teleportation of continuous quantum variables which is optimized for teleportation ofsqueezed coherent states. Our scheme is a modified version of the original setup proposed by Braunstein andKimble [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 869, 1998] and it involves an unbalanced beam splitter on the sender's side and asingle mode squeezer on receiver's side. We show that the quality of the teleportation can be evaluated by meansof a fidelity of entanglement swapping and we prove that our modified setup and the original Braunstein-Kimblesetup are equivalent with respect to this fidelity measure.Keywords: Quantum teleportation, squeezed states, completely positive maps, fidelity 1. INTRODUCTION Quantum teleportation, a disembodied transfer of a quantum state between two distant parties, is perhaps themost remarkable and exciting development in the rapidly growing field of quantum information processing. Intheir seminal paper, Bennett et al.1 proposed a protocol for teleportation of a single qubit from the sender Aliceto the receiver Bob. The information about the teleported state is sent to Bob via dual classical and quantumEPR channels. The latter is established by a maximally entangled state shared by Alice and Bob.Recently, there has been much interest in quantum information processing with continuous quantum van-ables. Here, the focus is on systems with infinite dimensional Hubert spaces such as quantized electromagneticfield. Teleportation of continuous quantum variables was first considered by Vaidman,2 and an experimentallyfeasible setup was suggested by Braunstein and Kimble.3 Subsequent experiment4 demonstrated that theteleportation of a single mode of optical field is fully within the reach of current technology. Since then, manyauthors discussed various aspects of the teleportation,5'° including fidelity of teleportation of various quantumstates and influence of losses on the degradation of the quantum channel.Besides teleportation, many other protocols developed originally in the framework of discrete quantum van-ables, have been successfully formulated also for continuous variables. These include quantum cloning,11'3quantum