SuperDense Teleportation using Hyperentangled Photons

We use photon pairs hyperentangled in polarization and orbital angular momentum to implement a novel entanglement-enhanced quantum state communication technique, known as SuperDense Teleportation, to communicate a specific class of single-photon ququart states between two remote parties, with an average fidelity of 87.0(1)%, almost twice the classical limit of 44%. We compare this technique with quantum teleportation and remote state preparation and show that SuperDense teleportation requires less classical information and fewer experimental resources. We discuss the information content of this constrained set of states and demonstrate that this set has an exponentially larger state space volume than the lower dimensional general states with the same number of state parameters.