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Entangled coherent states: teleportation and decoherence

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

When a superposition (α>α>)(|\alpha>-|-\alpha>) of two coherent states with opposite phase falls upon a 50-50 beamsplitter, the resulting state is entangled. Remarkably, the amount of entanglement is exactly 1 ebit, irrespective of α\alpha, as was recently discovered by O. Hirota and M. Sasaki. Here we discuss decoherence properties of such states and give a simple protocol that teleports one qubit encoded in Schr\"odinger cat states

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0012086,
  title  = {Entangled coherent states: teleportation and decoherence},
  author = {S. J. van Enk and O. Hirota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0012086},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages LaTeX, 3 eps figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. A

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