Solution

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Combine the hypothetical protocol with superdense coding. Before a message is chosen, Alice and Bob share a further Bell pair , with at Alice and at Bob, in addition to any resources needed for the hypothetical quantum teleportation protocol. To encode two classical bits , Alice applies the Pauli gates , preparing
The four choices are the four mutually orthogonal Bell states. Alice now uses the hypothetical protocol to teleport to Bob using only one classical bit. Its assumed preservation of the joint quantum state gives Bob both and in
Bob performs a Bell-basis measurement. Explicitly, a controlled-NOT gate , followed by a Hadamard gate on , gives
A computational-basis measurement therefore recovers both message bits with certainty after only one transmitted classical bit. The initial Bell pairs are shared before the message is chosen and carry no message themselves. This proves the classical communication lower bound for exact qubit teleportation: a perfect protocol preserving an external reference needs at least two transmitted classical bits.

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