{
  "id": "quant-ph/9608001",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1996-08-01T18:59:06.000Z",
  "updated": "1996-08-01T18:59:06.000Z",
  "title": "Reversible quantum operations and their application to teleportation",
  "authors": [
    "M. A. Nielsen",
    "Carlton M. Caves"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, Revtex",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.55.2547",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Quantum operations provide a general description of the state changes allowed by quantum mechanics. Simple necessary and sufficient conditions for an ideal quantum operation to be reversible by a unitary operation are derived in this paper. These results generalize recent work on reversible measurements by Mabuchi and Zoller [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\\bf 76}, 3108 (1996)]. Quantum teleportation can be understood as a special case of the problem of reversing quantum operations. We characterize completely teleportation schemes of the type proposed by Bennett {\\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\\bf 70}, 1895 (1993)].",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1996-08-01T18:59:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "reversible quantum operations",
      "application",
      "ideal quantum operation",
      "general description",
      "quantum mechanics"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. A"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 421506
    }
  }
}