Bell measurements for teleportation
Norbert Lütkenhaus, John Calsamiglia, Kalle‐Antti Suominen · Physical Review A · 1999
In this paper we investigate the possibility of making complete Bell measurements on a product Hilbert space of two two-level bosonic systems. We restrict our tools to linear elements, such as beam splitters and phase shifters, delay lines and electronically switched linear elements, photodetectors, and auxiliary bosons. As a result we show that with these tools a never failing Bell measurement is impossible.