Teleportation via multi-qubit channels

Abstract

We investigate the problem of teleporting an unknown qubit state to a recipient via a channel of $2{\mathcal L}$ qubits. In this procedure a protocol is employed whereby ${\mathcal L}$ Bell state measurements are made and information based on these measurements is sent via a classical channel to the recipient. Upon receiving this information the recipient determines a local gate which is used to recover the original state. We find that the $2^{2\mathcal L}$-dimensional Hilbert space of states available for the channel admits a decomposition into four subspaces. Every state within a given subspace is a perfect channel, and each sequence of Bell measurements projects $2{\mathcal L}$ qubits of the system into one of the four subspaces. As a result, only two bits of classical information need be sent to the recipient for them to determine the gate. We note some connections between these four subspaces and ground states of many-body Hamiltonian systems, and discuss the implications of these results towards understanding entanglement in multi-qubit systems.