Two-mode Gaussian states as resource of secure quantum teleportation in open systems

Abstract

For secure quantum teleportation (SQT) of coherent states two conditions are necessary to be fulfilled: Gaussian-state resources with two-way steering and teleportation fidelity higher than 2/3. We investigate and compare squeezed thermal states and squeezed vacuum states as initial resource states for SQT in an open quantum system, consisting of two uncoupled harmonic oscillators interacting with a thermal environment. The evolution of the open system is obtained in terms of the covariance matrix, by using the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan master equation. The SQT conditions are satisfied in a longer period of time in the case of initial squeezed vacuum states, therefore these states are better resource states for SQT than squeezed thermal states. We show that the admissible time for SQT decreases by increasing temperature, dissipation coefficient and average number of thermal photons, while for greater values of the squeezing parameter, SQT conditions are satisfied in a longer period of time.