Teleportation with an ambiguous Bell-state phase label
ID: teleportation-with-an-ambiguous-bell-state-phase-label
Suppose a perfect Bell pair is used for quantum teleportation, but the sender cannot distinguish the and Bell-basis measurement outcomes and guesses their labels uniformly. Each of the four actual outcomes has probability . Either ambiguous outcome gives an incorrect Pauli Z gate correction with conditional probability , so the total phase-flip probability is . The unconditional output is therefore the displayed phase-flip channel. For , its teleportation fidelity is . It ranges from on the Bloch sphere equator to at its poles. This averages the output density operators, including the ambiguous rounds.
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