Quantum Energy Teleportation versus Information Teleportation

Jinzhao Wang; Shunyu Yao

doi:10.22331/q-2024-12-12-1564

Quantum Energy Teleportation versus Information Teleportation

Jinzhao Wang and Shunyu Yao

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

Published:	2024-12-12, volume 8, page 1564
Eprint:	arXiv:2405.13886v2
Doi:	https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2024-12-12-1564
Citation:	Quantum 8, 1564 (2024).

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Abstract

Quantum energy teleportation (QET) is the phenomenon in which locally inaccessible energy is activated as extractable work through collaborative local operations and classical communication (LOCC) with an entangled partner. It closely resembles the more well-known quantum information teleportation (QIT) where quantum information can be sent through an entangled pair with LOCC. It is tempting to ask how QET is related to QIT. Here we report a first study of this connection. Despite the apparent similarity, we show that these two phenomena are not only distinct but moreover are mutually competitive. We show a perturbative trade-off relation between their performance in a thermal entangled chaotic many-body system, in which both QET and QIT are simultaneously implemented through a traversable wormhole in an emergent spacetime. Motivated by this example, we study a generic setup of two entangled qudits and prove a universal non-perturbative trade-off bound. It shows that for any teleportation protocol, the overall performance of QET and QIT together is constrained by the entanglement resource. We discuss some explanations of our results.

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► BibTeX data

@article{Wang2024quantumenergy,
  doi = {10.22331/q-2024-12-12-1564},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2024-12-12-1564},
  title = {Quantum {E}nergy {T}eleportation versus {I}nformation {T}eleportation},
  author = {Wang, Jinzhao and Yao, Shunyu},
  journal = {{Quantum}},
  issn = {2521-327X},
  publisher = {{Verein zur F{\"{o}}rderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften}},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {1564},
  month = dec,
  year = {2024}
}

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