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There is no unmet requirement of optical coherence for continuous-variable quantum teleportation

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

It has been argued [T. Rudolph and B.C. Sanders, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 077903 (2001)] that continuous-variable quantum teleportation at optical frequencies has not been achieved because the source used (a laser) was not `truly coherent'. Here I show that `true coherence' is always illusory, as the concept of absolute time on a scale beyond direct human experience is meaningless. A laser is as good a clock as any other, even in principle, and this objection to teleportation experiments is baseless.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0209163,
  title  = {There is no unmet requirement of optical coherence for continuous-variable quantum teleportation},
  author = {H. M. Wiseman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0209163},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, no figures, no equations, to be published in Journal of Modern Optics. This is a long version of quant-ph/0104004. I have not replaced that paper with this one because some authors have referenced that one approvingly who may feel differently about doing so to this version