The states of W-class as shared resources for perfect teleportation and superdense coding

Abstract

As we know, the states of triqubit systems have two important classes: GHZ-class and W-class. In this paper, the states of W-class are considered for teleportation and superdense coding, and they are generalized to multi-particle systems. First we describe two transformations on the shared resources for teleportation and superdense coding. With these transformations, we obtain a sufficient and necessary condition for a state of W-class being suitable for perfect teleportation and superdense coding. For the state which was thought to be not suitable for sending three classical bits by sending two qubits by Agrawal and Pati (2006 Phys. Rev. A 74 062320), we show that it may be used to fulfil that task, if entangled unitary operations on two qubits are allowed. We generalize the states of W-class to multi-qubit systems and multi-particle systems with higher dimension. We propose two protocols for teleportation and superdense coding by using W-states of multi-qubit systems that generalize the protocols by using |W⟩123 proposed by Agrawal and Pati. We obtain an optimal way to partition some W-states of multi-qubit systems into two subsystems, such that the entanglement between them achieves maximum value.