Multihop teleportation of two-qubit state via the composite GHZ–Bell channel

• DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2016.10.048
• Publication Date: 2016-11-01T09:00:23Z
• Authors: Zhen-Zhen Zou; Xu-Tao Yu; Yan-Xiao Gong; Zai-Chen Zhang
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

Abstract A multihop teleportation protocol in quantum communication network is introduced to teleport an arbitrary two-qubit state, between two nodes without directly sharing entanglement pairs. Quantum channels are built among neighbor nodes based on a five-qubit entangled system composed of GHZ and Bell pairs. The von Neumann measurements in all intermediate nodes and the source node are implemented, and then the measurement outcomes are sent to the destination node independently. After collecting all the measurement outcomes at the destination node, an efficient method is proposed to calculate the unitary operations for transforming the receiver's states to the state teleported. Therefore, only adopting the proper unitary operations at the destination node, the desired quantum state can be recovered perfectly. The transmission flexibility and efficiency of quantum network with composite GHZ–Bell channel are improved by transmitting measurement outcomes of all nodes in parallelism and reducing hop-by-hop teleportation delay.