Enhanced two-way teleportation of entangled states with six-qubit cluster channel

Abstract A bidirectional quantum teleportation protocol is proposed for the transfer of two-qubit entangled states between two parties utilizing a six-qubit cluster state quantum channel. The protocol enhances the resource efficiency by allowing the reconstruction of teleported states without the use of CNOT operations or auxiliary qubits at the receiver’s end. Comparative analysis with existing schemes highlights the higher intrinsic efficiency of the proposed approach for bidirectional quantum teleportation. The protocol is further generalized to enable the bidirectional teleportation of arbitrary n -qubit entangled states using the same six-qubit quantum resource, demonstrating scalability. The protocol is simulated under various noise models to evaluate its robustness, with fidelity assessments carried out using the IBM Qiskit SDK. A complete teleportation circuit implementing the protocol is designed using standard quantum gates.