Teleportation of bipartite states using a single entangled pair

A class of quantum protocols to teleport bipartite (entangled) states of two qubits is suggested. Our schemes require a single entangled pair shared by the two parties and the transmission of three bits of classical information, as well as a two-qubit gate with an additional qubit at the receiver’s location. Noisy quantum channels are considered and the effects on both the teleportation fidelity and the entanglement of the replica are evaluated