Prediction-Retrodiction Measurements for Teleportation and Conditional State Transfer

Sergey A Fedorov1, Emil Zeuthen1

  • 1Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.

Physical Review Letters
|August 25, 2023
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