Bell measurements for teleportation

Abstract
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. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3295 © 1999 The American Physical Society