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come, applying some appropriate quantum gates to iment with two people, Alice and Bob. In the ex-
his qubit Bob will recover the state ψ . periment Alice observes X or X while Bob meas-
1 2
| i
Afew importantremarks aboutquantum telepor- uresX orX .ConsiderthequantityX X +X X +
3 4 1 3 2 3
tation are in the line. First, quantum teleportation X X X X . It is equal to
2 4 1 4
does not involve any transfer of matter or energy.
(X +X )X +(X X )X = 2 2.
Alice’s particle has not been physically moved to 1 2 3 2 − 1 4 ± ≤
Bob; only its state has been transferred. Second, af- Regardless of the distributions of X , taking expec-
i
ter the teleportation Bob’s qubitwill beon the tele- tationonbothsidesoftheaboveinequalitywearrive
ported state, while Alice’s qubit will become some at the famous Bell inequality,
undefinedpartofanentangledstate.Inotherwords,
E(X X )+E(X X )+E(X X )
what the teleportation does is that a qubit was de- 1 3 2 3 2 4
(9)
stroyed inoneplace butinstantaneously resurrected E(X X ) 2.
1 4
in another. Teleportation does not copy any qubits, − ≤
TheviolationofBell’sinequalitydemonstratesen-
and hence is consistent with the no-cloning theo-
tanglement effect in quantum mechanics. In fact,
rem(whichforbidsthecreation ofidenticalcopies of
quantum experiments yield a quantum version of
an arbitrary unknown quantum state; see Wootters
the inequality. Consider that a quantum system of
and Zurek (1982)). Third, in order to teleportate
two qubits is prepared in a Bell state
a qubit, Alice has to inform Bob of her measure-
ment by sending him two classical bits of informa- 01 10
ψ = | i−| i.
tion. These two classical bits do not carry complete
| i √2
information about the qubit being teleported. If the
Alice takes the first qubit of ψ while Bob gets its
two bits are intercepted by an eavesdropper, he or
| i
second qubit. Define four observables with eigenval-
she may know exactly what Bob needs to do in or-
ues 1,
der to recover the desired state. However, this infor-
±
mation isuseless iftheeavesdroppercannotinteract X =σ , X =σ ,
1 z 2 x
withtheentangledparticleinBob’spossession.Also
on the first qubit and
the requirement of sending two bits of information
viaclassicalchannelpreventsquantumteleportation σ +σ σ σ
X = z x , X = z − x ,
from transmittinginformation faster than thespeed 3 − √2 4 √2
of light.
onthesecond qubit,whereσ and σ arePauli ma-
x z
3.3.3 Bell’s inequality The Bell test experiments trices given by (7). Again Alice performs measure-
are designed to investigate the validity of the en- ments on X or X while Bob measures X or X .
1 2 3 4
tanglement effect in quantum mechanics through The quantum expectations of X X , X X , X X ,
1 3 2 3 2 4
Bell’s inequality. Over the past four decades many X X in the state ψ are calculated below:
1 4
| i
physicalexperimentsonquantumsystemswerecon-
1 1
ducted to check the validity of Bell’s inequality and E (X X )= , E (X X )= ,
ψ 1 3 ψ 2 3
√2 √2
resulted in some violation of the inequality. For ex-
ample, Aspect, Grangier and Roger (1981, 1982a, E (X X )= 1 , E (X X )= 1 .
ψ 2 4 ψ 1 4
1982b) provided overwhelming support to the vi- √2 −√2
olation of Bell’s inequality. The experimental re-
Here theobservableproductis in the senseof tensor
sultsareoften invoked astheproofofquantumnon-
product. Thus we obtain a value in the quantum
locality andlack of realism that noparticle has defi-
framework for the analog quantity on the left-hand
niteformuntilitismeasuredandmeasuringaquan-
side of the Bell’s inequality (9)
tumentity caninstantaneouslyinfluenceanotherfar
away. SeeAspect,Grangier andRoger (1981,1982a, E ψ(X 1X 3)+E ψ(X 2X 3)+E ψ(X 2X 4)
1982b), Bohm (1951), Bell (1964), Clauser et al.
E (X X )=2√2,
(1969) and Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (1935). − ψ 1 4
Below we describe the CHSH version of the Bell’s which exceeds 2 and hence violates the Bell’s in-
inequality (Clauser et al. (1969)). equality. In fact, the quantum version of the Bell’s
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QUANTUMCOMPUTATIONAND QUANTUMINFORMATION
inequality is the Tsirelson’s inequality (Tsirelson, ponents, each of which may be thought of as a sin-
1980) which shows that in any quantum state ρ, gle argument to function f(x). Because of quantum
E (X X )+E (X X )+E (X X ) nature, a single circuit U f applied once to the su-
ρ 1 3 ρ 2 3 ρ 2 4
(10) perposition state is actually performed on each of
E (X X ) 2√2. the components of the superposition, and the whole
ρ 1 4
− ≤ range of the values of function f(x) is stored in the
3.4 Quantum Parallelism