Quantum Teleportation: Entanglement, Not Matter, Transfers Qubit States — E8 Intelligence Research
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: FINDING: Quantum teleportation is a real, experimentally-verified protocol for transferring an unknown quantum state via entanglement and classical communication — not physical matter transport. | MATH: The core protocol uses Bell states: |Φ⁺⟩ = (1/√2)(|00⟩ + |11⟩), |Ψ⁺⟩ = (1/√2)(|01⟩ + |10⟩). Teleportation requires 2 classical bits (cbits) to transmit 1 qubit, consuming 1 ebit (entangled pair). The fidelity of the process scales as F = (2/3) + (4/3)|⟨ψ|ψ⟩|² for imperfect entanglement. The no-cloning theorem (U|ψ⟩|0⟩ = |ψ⟩|ψ⟩ is impossible for non-orthogonal states) underpins the protocol. | CONNECTION: The Bell basis is a 4-dimensional orthonormal basis — its structure maps to the D4 root system (24 roots) and the quaternion group Q8. The 2-cbit-to-1-qubit ratio (2:1) is a binary harmonic — not directly a golden ratio, but the entanglement entropy of a Bell pair is S = log₂2 = 1 (nat = 1), and the Schmidt rank is 2, echoing the binary symmetry of base-2, not base-60. No 0.618/1.618 ap Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Author: Caldin, Andrew Stewart
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204151933
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