Abstract:
Most existing quantum teleportation schemes do not consider the memory effect of noise, which is becoming increasingly serious in practical quantum communication. In this paper, we propose two quantum teleportation protocols for noisy memory channels: one based on pre-flipping (PF) and another incorporating pre-flipping with environment-assisted measurement (PF-EAM). In the PF protocol, a pre-flipping operation is applied to the entangled qubits before entanglement distribution to enhance robustness against noise. A recovery operator is then used to reverse the pre-flipping operation. In the PF-EAM protocol, environment-assisted measurement (EAM) is added to the entanglement distribution process, further improving teleportation fidelity. Since the pre-flipping operator in the two protocols is a fixed unitary operator, our protocols exclude additional parameters, which is unlike weak measurement (WM) schemes that rely on adjustable measurement strength. We derive the analytical expressions for the average fidelity and the success probability of our teleportation protocols. The results show that the pre-flipping operator in the PF protocol effectively enhances the average fidelity of quantum teleportation in a deterministic manner, while the fidelity of PF-EAM remains at constant 1, unaffected by the noise intensity in the channel. In addition, our PF-EAM achieves a higher success probability while maintaining the fidelity of 1 with respect to the existing unprotected teleportation protocol, protocol based on weak measurement and measurement reversal (WM-MR), and protocol based on quantum feed-forward control and environment-assisted measurement (QFFC-EAM) framework.