Quantum Teleportation
Transferring a quantum state between locations using entanglement and classical communication, without moving physical matter.
Quantum teleportation is a fundamental protocol in quantum information theory that allows the state of a qubit to be transferred from a sender (Alice) to a receiver (Bob). It relies on a pre-shared entangled pair of particles. Alice performs a Bell measurement on the qubit she wants to teleport and her half of the entangled pair, which collapses the quantum state. She then sends the two bits of classical information resulting from this measurement to Bob via a conventional channel (like radio or fiber optics). Bob applies a specific quantum gate operation based on these bits to his half of the entangled pair, transforming it into an identical copy of the original qubit's state. Crucially, the original state is destroyed in the process (due to the No-Cloning Theorem), and no information travels faster than light because the classical bits are required to complete the protocol.
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📠 A way to send the 'blueprints' of an atom to a new location so perfectly that the atom at the other end becomes the original.
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## Protocol Steps
1. Entanglement: Alice and Bob share a Bell pair.
2. Alice's Measure: Alice performs BSM on the unknown state and her qubit.
3. Classical Info: Alice sends 2 bits of result to Bob.
4. Bob's Correction: Bob applies a Pauli gate to restore the state.