Optimal input states for quantifying the performance of continuous-variable unidirectional and bidirectional teleportation Hemant K. Mishra1 2Samad Khabbazi Oskouei3and Mark M. Wilde1 2

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Optimal input states for quantifying the performance of continuous-variable
unidirectional and bidirectional teleportation
Hemant K. Mishra,1, 2 Samad Khabbazi Oskouei,3and Mark M. Wilde1, 2
1Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
and Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
3Department of Mathematics, Varamin-Pishva Branch,
Islamic Azad University, Varamin, 33817-7489, Iran
(Dated: June 6, 2023)
Continuous-variable (CV) teleportation is a fundamental protocol in quantum information sci-
ence. A number of experiments have been designed to simulate ideal teleportation under realistic
conditions. In this paper, we detail an analytical approach for determining optimal input states for
quantifying the performance of CV unidirectional and bidirectional teleportation. The metric that
we consider for quantifying performance is the energy-constrained channel fidelity between ideal
teleportation and its experimental implementation, and along with this, our focus is on determining
optimal input states for distinguishing the ideal process from the experimental one. We prove that,
under certain energy constraints, the optimal input state in unidirectional, as well as bidirectional,
teleportation is a finite entangled superposition of twin-Fock states saturating the energy constraint.
Moreover, we also prove that, under the same constraints, the optimal states are unique; that is,
there is no other optimal finite entangled superposition of twin-Fock states.
I. INTRODUCTION
Quantum teleportation is a foundational protocol in
quantum information science that has no classical ana-
logue [1] (see also [2]). It consists of transmitting an un-
known quantum state from one place to another by using
shared entanglement and local operations and classical
communication (LOCC). Quantum teleportation plays
an important role in quantum technologies such as quan-
tum information processing protocols [3], quantum com-
puting [4,5], and quantum networks [6]. Since the in-
vention of this protocol, various modifications have been
proposed, such as probabilistic teleportation [79], con-
trolled teleportation [1013], and bidirectional telepor-
tation [1422]. There has also been significant progress
in implementing quantum teleportation in laboratories
around the world in the last three decades [23]. Several
experiments have implemented the teleportation proto-
col for simple quantum systems [2429], and attempts
are being made to extend them to more complex quan-
tum systems [3033].
The first theoretical proposal for quantum telepor-
tation was for two-level quantum systems, also com-
monly called qubits [1]. Later, continuous-variable (CV)
teleportation was devised as an extension of the orig-
inal protocol to quantum systems described by infinite-
dimensional Hilbert spaces [14,34]. This was followed by
many experimental implementations of CV teleportation,
which include teleportation of collective spins of atomic
ensembles [35,36], polarisation states of photon beams
[33], coherent states [37], etc. In standard CV telepor-
tation, the entangled resource state shared between the
sender and receiver, respectively Alice and Bob, is a two-
mode squeezed vacuum (TMSV) state. The protocol be-
gins with Alice mixing an unknown input state with her
share of the entanglement on a balanced beamsplitter and
then performing homodyne detection of complementary
quadratures. Based on the classical measurement out-
comes received by Alice and subsequently transmitted to
Bob, he then performs displacement operations on his
share of the TMSV state and recovers an approximation
of the original state [34].
An ideal implementation of CV teleportation in princi-
ple allows for perfect transmission of quantum states and
hence simulates an ideal quantum channel. However, an
ideal implementation also demands the unphysical condi-
tions of noiseless homodyne detection and infinite squeez-
ing in the TMSV state, which is not possible in practice
because both noiseless homodyne detection and infinite
squeezing require infinite energy. Any experimental im-
plementation of CV teleportation accounts for an unideal
detection and finite squeezing, which results in an imper-
fect transmission of quantum states, and hence simulates
a noisy quantum channel [34]. It is therefore important
for experimentalists to employ performance metrics, as
well as quantify the performance, for any experimental
simulation of ideal teleportation.
Several works on characterising the performance of ex-
perimental implementations of the teleportation proto-
col have been conducted for finite-dimensional quantum
systems in the past few years [3844], including a more
recent work on bidirectional teleportation, which bench-
marks the performance in terms of normalised diamond
distance and channel infidelity for transmission of arbi-
trary quantum states [45]. There have also been many
theoretical and experimental works on quantifying the
performance of experimental implementations of the CV
teleportation protocol. However, most of them study
the performance by evaluating specific classes of quan-
tum states, such as coherent states [4649], pure single-
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mode Gaussian states [50,51], squeezed states [52], cat
states [53], etc. All such evaluations are incomplete, in
the sense that they test the performance by transmitting
specific states rather than arbitrary unknown states. A
true quantifier for CV unidirectional teleportation was
given in [54], which benchmarks the performance of an
experimental implementation in terms of the energy-
constrained channel fidelity between ideal teleportation
and its experimental implementation. We also note here
that [54] is foundational for the present paper.
In this paper, we quantify the performance of any ex-
perimental implementation of CV unidirectional, as well
as bidirectional, teleportation, under certain energy con-
straints. The performance metric that we consider is the
energy-constrained channel fidelity between an ideal tele-
portation and its experimental implementation. We ex-
plicitly find optimal input states, i.e., quantum states
whose output fidelity corresponding to the ideal chan-
nel and its experimental approximation is the same as
the energy-constrained channel fidelity between the two
channels. Our method is purely analytical, employing
optimization techniques from multivariable calculus. The
optimal states for unidirectional, as well as bidirectional,
teleportation are finite entangled superpositions of twin-
Fock states saturating the energy constraint. Further-
more, we prove that the optimal input states are unique;
i.e., there is no other optimal finite entangled superposi-
tion of twin-Fock states.
Our results on bidirectional teleportation are also re-
lated to one of the most interesting mathematical prob-
lems in quantum information theory: the study of addi-
tive and multiplicative properties of measures associated
with quantum channels [5558]. Much progress has been
made in addressing these additivity issues [5963], set-
tling some of the questions posed in [64,65]. The fidelity
of quantum states is well known to be multiplicative for
tensor-product quantum states [63]. This induces an in-
equality for energy-constrained channel fidelity between
two tensor-product channels. As a consequence of our
work, we give examples where the induced inequality is
strict; that is, our results also imply that the energy-
constrained fidelity between the identity channel and an
additive-noise channel is strictly sub-multiplicative.
The rest of our paper is organized as follows. In Sec-
tion II, we review some definitions. We present a deriva-
tion of the optimal input state for CV unidirectional tele-
portation in Section III, and for CV bidirectional tele-
portation in Section IV. We show in Section Vthat the
energy-constrained fidelity between the ideal swap chan-
nel and the tensor product of two additive-noise chan-
nels is strictly sub-multiplicative. We then discuss pos-
sible extensions and generalizations of the present work
in Section VI. Finally, in Section VII we summarize our
results and outline questions for future work.
The appendices contain necessary calculations for de-
riving the results. In Appendix A, we provide proofs of
some preliminary results required to derive the optimal
input state for CV unidirectional teleportation. Simi-
larly, we prove some preliminary results in Appendix B
that are used to derive the optimal input state for CV
bidirectional teleportation.
II. PRELIMINARIES
Let Hbe a separable Hilbert space, and let Tbe an
operator acting on H. The adjoint of Tis the unique
operator Tacting on Hdefined by ϕ|T|ψ=ψ|T|ϕ
for all |ϕ,|ψ⟩ ∈ H;Tis said to be self-adjoint if T=
T. If Tr(TT)<then Tis said to be a trace-
class operator, and its trace norm is defined as T1:=
Tr(TT). A quantum state is a positive semi-definite,
trace-class operator with trace norm equal to one. We
denote by D(H) the set of all quantum states or density
operators acting on H. Let ρ, σ ∈ D(H). The fidelity
between ρand σis defined by [66]
F(ρ, σ):=
ρσ
2
1.(1)
If one of the quantum states is pure, i.e., say ρ=|ψψ|,
then F(ρ, σ) = Tr(ρσ). The sine distance between ρand
σis given by [6770]
C(ρ, σ):=p1F(ρ, σ).(2)
The following inequalities relate the fidelity, sine dis-
tance, and trace distance [71, Theorem 1]
1pF(ρ, σ)1
2ρσ1C(ρ, σ).(3)
The set of bounded operators on Hforms a C-algebra
under the operator norm, and we denote it by L(H). Let
HAdenote the Hilbert space corresponding to a quan-
tum system A. A quantum channel from a quantum
system Ato a quantum system Bis a completely posi-
tive, trace preserving linear map from L(HA) to L(HB).
Let MABand NABbe quantum channels. Let HA
be a Hamiltonian corresponding to the quantum system
A, and let Rdenote a reference system. The energy-
constrained channel fidelity between MABand NAB
for E[0,) is defined by [72,73]
FE(MAB,NAB):=
inf
ρRA:Tr(HAρA)EF(MAB(ρRA),NAB(ρRA)),(4)
where ρRA ∈ D(HR⊗ HA), ρA= TrR(ρRA),and it is
implicit that the identity channel IRacts on the refer-
ence system R. Furthermore, the optimization in (4) is
taken over every possible reference system R. Similarly,
the energy-constrained sine distance between MABand
NABfor E[0,) is defined by [72,73]
CE(MAB,NAB):=
sup
ρRA:Tr(HAρA)E
C(MAB(ρRA),NAB(ρRA)).(5)
3
Although the optimizations in (4) and (5) are over ar-
bitrary mixed states and arbitrary reference systems, it
suffices to restrict the optimization over pure states such
that the reference system Ris isomorphic to the channel
input system A. This is a consequence of purification, the
Schmidt decomposition, and data processing [74, Section
3.5.4]. We thus have
FE(MAB,NAB) =
inf
ϕRA:Tr(HAϕA)EF(MAB(ϕRA),NAB(ϕRA)),(6)
CE(MAB,NAB) =
sup
ϕRA:Tr(HAϕA)E
C(MAB(ϕRA),NAB(ϕRA)),(7)
where the optimizations (6) and (7) are taken over pure
states ϕRA with reference system Risomorphic to sys-
tem A.
III. OPTIMAL INPUT STATE FOR CV
UNIDIRECTIONAL TELEPORTATION
The CV quantum teleportation protocol describes how
to transmit an unknown quantum state from Alice to
Bob when their systems are in CV modes and they share
a prior entangled state known as a resource state [34]. In
this protocol, Alice mixes the unknown quantum state
with her share of the resource state (TMSV state) and
performs homodyne detection. The homodyne detection
destroys the input state on Alice’s end. Alice then com-
municates the classical outcomes of the detection to Bob,
based on which he performs unitary operations on his
share of the resource state to generate an approximation
of the input state. Let Adenote the input mode, and let
Bdenote the output mode. An ideal teleportation pro-
tocol requires noiseless homodyne detection and infinite
squeezing in the TMSV state, and it induces the identity
channel IABon the input states [1,34] (see [75] for
further clarification of the convergence of the protocol to
the identity channel). However, an experimental imple-
mentation of CV teleportation has a noisy detector and
finite squeezing in the resource state which makes the ex-
perimental implementations of teleportation perform less
than ideal. It realizes an additive-noise channel Tξ
AB,
where the noise parameter ξ > 0 encodes unideal de-
tection and finite squeezing [34,76]. The additive-noise
channel Tξis a composition of the quantum-limited am-
plifier A1with gain parameter 1and the pure-loss
channel Lηwith transmissivity η, where η= 1/(1 + ξ)
[77,78]. See [79, Section II.B] for more details.
By taking the performance metric to be the energy-
constrained channel fidelity between ideal teleportation
and the additive-noise channel, the performance of ex-
perimental implementations has been studied in [54]. By
choosing the Hamiltonian HAto be the photon number
operator ˆnA=P
n=0 n|nn|A, the energy-constrained
channel fidelity in (6) for the identity channel IABand
the additive-noise channel Tξ
ABcan be further simpli-
fied, as a consequence of phase averaging and joint phase
covariance of these channels [54,73], as
FE(IAB,Tξ
AB) =
inf
ψRA
F(IAB(ψRA),Tξ
AB(ψRA)),(8)
where the infimum is taken over pure and entangled su-
perpositions of twin-Fock states ψRA =|ψψ|RA such
that
|ψRA =
X
n=0
λn|nR|nA,(9)
λnR+for all n, P
n=0 λ2
n= 1,and P
n=0 2
nE. An
analytical solution to the energy-constrained channel fi-
delity in (8), using Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, was
given in [54] for small values of ξand arbitrary values of
E. The optimal input state so obtained was
|ψRA =p1− {E}|⌊E⌋⟩R|⌊E⌋⟩A+p{E}|⌈E⌉⟩RE⌉⟩A,
(10)
where {E}:=E− ⌊E. Another contribution of [54]
was to provide a method, using a combination of numer-
ical and analytical techniques, for finding optimal input
states to test the performance of unidirectional CV tele-
portation under the energy-constrained channel fidelity
measure.
In this section, we show that an optimal input state for
the energy-constrained channel fidelity (8) is a finite en-
tangled superposition of twin-Fock states saturating the
energy constraint for arbitrary values of ξand Esatisfy-
ing E(1 + ξ)/(1 + 3ξ),and it is given by
|ψRA =1E|0R|0A+E|1R|1A.(11)
Observe that the optimal state in (11) is the same as that
in (10) under the common conditions of E(1+ξ)/(1+
3ξ) and small ξ. Our method also shows that the optimal
state in (11) is unique; i.e., there is no other optimal finite
entangled superposition of twin-Fock states for (8). We
emphasize that our method is purely analytical. For, we
use optimization techniques from multivariable calculus,
and the constraint E(1 + ξ)/(1 + 3ξ) is needed in our
analysis in the proof of Proposition 2that plays a major
role in establishing the result. We also note that it is
still an open problem to find the optimal state for larger
values of Eanalytically.
In order to compute the energy-constrained channel
fidelity between the ideal channel IABand its experi-
mental implementation Tξ
AB,we define the M-truncated
energy-constrained channel fidelity between IABand
Tξ
ABas
FE,M (IAB,Tξ
AB):= inf
ψRA
F(IAB(ψRA),Tξ
AB(ψRA)),
(12)
4
where the infimum is taken over pure states ψRA =
|ψψ|RA of the form
|ψRA =
M
X
n=0
pn|nR|nA,(13)
such that pn0 for all n, PM
n=0 pn= 1,and PM
n=0 npn
E. In Proposition 1in Appendix A, we show that
F(IAB(ψRA),Tξ
AB(ψRA))
1
(1 + ξ)
M
X
n=0
pn
(1 + ξ)n!2
+ M
X
n=1
pnξ
(1 + ξ)n!2
,
(14)
for every state of the form in (13). Define the real-valued
function
fM(p):=
1
(1 + ξ)
M
X
n=0
pn
(1 + ξ)n!2
+ M
X
n=1
pnξ
(1 + ξ)n!2
,(15)
for all pRM+1. By (14) and (15), we thus have
F(ψRA,Tξ
AB(ψRA)) fM(p).(16)
The minimizer of the function fMsubject to pn0 for
all n∈ {0, . . . , M},
M
X
n=0
pn= 1,
M
X
n=0
npnE, (17)
is the unique point given by p0= 1 E, p1=E, and
pn= 0 for all n2,whenever E(1 + ξ)/(1 + 3ξ). See
Proposition 2in Appendix A. It thus follows from (14)
that the optimal input state to the M-truncated energy-
constrained channel fidelity is unique, and it is given by
(11), whenever E(1+ξ)/(1+3ξ). See Lemma 3in Ap-
pendix A. From the solution to the M-truncated energy-
constrained channel fidelity, and the inequality (A35) in
Appendix A, it follows that the optimal input state in
(8) is given by (11), whenever E(1 + ξ)/(1 + 3ξ). The
uniqueness follows from the uniqueness of the optimal
state for the M-truncated energy-constrained channel fi-
delity. See Theorem 4in Appendix A.
We compare two classes of experimentally relevant
quantum states, namely coherent states and TMSV
states, with the optimal state under the given energy
constraint. See [80] for further background on CV quan-
tum information. Let |αdenote a coherent state, which
is given by
|α:=e|α|2
2
X
n=0
αn
n!|n.(18)
The energy of the coherent state |αis E=|α|2,and
its covariance matrix is I2,the 2 ×2 identity matrix.
The covariance matrix of Tξ(|αα|) is (1 + 2ξ)I2. Let
ψ(n)RA =|ψ(n)ψ(n)|RA be the TMSV state given by
|ψ(n)RA :=1
n+ 1
X
n=0 sn
n+ 1n
|nR|nA.(19)
The energy of its reduced state is E=n, and its covari-
ance matrix is
Vψ(n)RA =(2n+ 1)I22pn(n+ 1)σz
2pn(n+ 1)σz(2n+ 1)I2,(20)
where σzis the Pauli-zmatrix. The covariance matrix
of Tξ(ψ(n)RA) is given by
VTξ(ψ(n)RA)=(2n+ 1)I22pn(n+ 1)σz
2pn(n+ 1)σz(2n+ 1 + 2ξ)I2.(21)
We then have
F|αα|,Tξ(|αα|)=2
pDet (2(1 + ξ)I2)(22)
=1
1 + ξ,(23)
and also,
Fψ(n)RA,Tξ(ψ(n)RA)
=22
qDet Vψ(n)RA +VTξ(ψ(n)RA)
(24)
=1
1 + (2n+ 1)ξ(25)
=1
1 + (2E+ 1)ξ.(26)
These fidelity expressions are evaluated using Eq. (4.51)
of [80].
In Figure 1, we plot the output fidelity FEbetween
the ideal channel and an additive-noise channel versus
the input energy E, corresponding to a coherent state,
a TMSV state and the optimal state, with input energy
E[0,0.5]. The noise parameter is taken as ξ= 0.5. In
order, the dotted (orange), dashed (magenta), and solid
(blue) lines indicate the output fidelity for the coherent
state (23), the TMSV state (26), and the optimal state
(A33). The graph indicates that coherent and TMSV
states are not optimal states in general. Interestingly,
however, the TMSV state is very close to being an opti-
mal input state for CV unidirectional teleportation. This
was observed in a different regime for the energy con-
straint, in Figure 2 of [54].
IV. OPTIMAL INPUT STATE FOR CV
BIDIRECTIONAL TELEPORTATION
The CV bidirectional teleportation protocol consists
of a two-way transmission of unknown quantum states
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0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
Energy E
0.50
0.55
0.60
0.65
Fidelity FE
Coherent TMSV Optimal
Figure 1: The graph plots the output fidelity FEbetween
the ideal channel and an additive-noise channel versus the
input energy E, corresponding to a coherent state, a TMSV
state, and the optimal state (each having input energy E).
The noise parameter for the additive-noise channel is taken
as ξ= 0.5 and the states have energy E[0,0.5]. The
dotted (orange), dashed (magenta), and solid (blue) lines
represent the output fidelity for the coherent state, the
TMSV state, and the optimal state, respectively.
between Alice and Bob. One implementation of the pro-
tocol, which we consider here, allows for a simulation of
two ideal CV unidirectional quantum channels with the
help of shared entanglement and LOCC. See [45] for a dis-
cussion of more general implementations. The protocol
that we consider here can be thought of as a combination
of two CV unidirectional teleportations, one from Alice
to Bob and the other from Bob to Alice. Let Aand B
denote the input modes for Alice and Bob, and let Aand
Bdenote the output modes for Alice and Bob, respec-
tively. An ideal CV bidirectional teleportation between
Alice and Bob is represented by the following unitary
swap channel
SABAB(·):= SWAP(·) SWAP,(27)
where the unitary swap operator SWAP is defined as
SWAP :=
X
m,n=0 |mAn|A⊗ |nBm|B.(28)
Here {|mA}
m=0 is the photonic number basis corre-
sponding to the system A, and so on. The swap channel
acts on product states by swapping them, i.e.,
SABAB(ϕAψB) = ψAϕB.(29)
Thus, the swap channel can be thought of as the tensor
product of the ideal channels IABand IBA. An
experimental implementation of CV bidirectional tele-
portation realizes an approximate swap channel given
by the tensor product of two additive-noise channels
Tξ
ABT ξ
BA. The Hamiltonian for the composite sys-
tem AB is the total photon number operator:
ˆnAB := ˆnAIB+IAˆnB.(30)
Given any state ρAB ∈ D(HA⊗ HB),the inequality
Tr(ˆnAB ρAB)2Eimplies that the average photon num-
ber in ρAB over each of the modes Aand Bis at most E.
So, the energy-constrained channel fidelity (6) between
the ideal bidirectional teleportation SABABand its
experimental implementation Tξ
AB T ξ
BAis given
by
FE(SABAB,Tξ
AB⊗T ξ
BA) = inf
ϕRAB : Tr(ˆnAB ϕAB )2E
FSABAB(ϕRAB),Tξ
AB⊗ T ξ
BA(ϕRAB ),(31)
where ϕRAB is a pure state and ϕAB = TrR(ϕRAB ). As
a consequence of the joint phase covariance of SABAB
and Tξ
AB T ξ
BA,and the arguments given for (8),
the infimum in (31) can be recast as
FE(SABAB,Tξ
AB⊗ T ξ
BA) =
inf
ψRAB
FSABAB(ψRAB),Tξ
AB⊗ T ξ
BA(ψRAB ),
(32)
where ψRAB =|ψψ|RAB is a pure, entangled superpo-
sition of twin-Fock states given by
|ψRAB =
X
m,n=0
λm,n|m, nR|m, nAB ,(33)
such that λm,n 0 for all mand n,P
m,n=0 λ2
m,n = 1,
and P
m,n=0(m+n)λ2
m,n 2E. We further simplify
the fidelity expression in (32) as follows. Since we are
working with CV modes, the systems A, B, A, Bare all
isomorphic to each other. So, the energy constrained
channel fidelity between SABABand Tξ
AB⊗ T ξ
BA
must be the same as that of IAAIBBand Tξ
AA
Tξ
BB. For simplicity of notations, we shall denote any
channel MCCby MC,where Cand Care isomorphic
systems. Recall that an additive-noise channel Tξcan be
written as a composed channel A1◦ Lηfor η= 1/(1 +
ξ). Also, the adjoint of the quantum-limited amplifier is
related to the pure-loss channel by (A1)=ηLη[81].
For the given pure state in (33), we have
F(SABAB(ψRAB),Tξ
AB⊗ T ξ
BA(ψRAB ))
=F((IA⊗ IB)(ψRAB ),(Tξ
A⊗ T ξ
B)(ψRAB )) (34)
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