Bidirectional controlled quantum teleportation of two-qubit states via an eight-qubit entangled channel

Abstract

Using an eight-qubit entangled state as the quantum channel, we propose a novel bidirectional controlled quantum teleportation scheme involving three participants: a controller, Charlie, and two communicators, Alice and Bob. Alice can teleport an arbitrary two-qubit target entangled state to Bob, while Bob simultaneously teleports another two-qubit entangled target state back to Alice conditional on Charlie’s authorization and assistance. Compared with some existing schemes, the proposed scheme achieves higher intrinsic efficiency with lower operation complexity. Moreover, this scheme is practically feasible with currently available quantum technologies.