Write the arbitrary joint pure state of the input and an external reference as
The reference vectors need not be normalized or orthogonal. Share . Label Alice's Bell states by
Projecting onto this Bell basis gives the unnormalized state
Each outcome has probability . Alice sends and Bob applies , reversing the two Pauli gates. The final state is exactly for every outcome. In particular all input entanglement and other correlations with now belong to , while the reference marginal is unchanged. This is teleportation as an identity channel on a reference.
Conditioned on the record, Alice's two measured carriers are in and factor from . Thus no longer retains its original correlations with . There is no second copy, even when the teleported qubit was initially entangled with a larger system.
Qudit teleportation 2026-10-07
A sender and receiver share . The sender measures the input and their resource half in the generalized Bell basis. Outcome gives the receiver , with probability . After classical communication of the outcome, the correction restores the unknown quantum state. The same calculation preserves correlations with a reference, as in teleportation as an identity channel on a reference.