We investigate the usefulness of a recently introduced five-qubit state by Brown et al. [I. D. K. Brown, S. Stepney, A. Sudbery, and S. L. Braunstein, J. Phys. A 38, 1119 (2005)] for quantum teleportation, quantum-state sharing, and superdense coding. It is shown that this state can be utilized for perfect teleportation of arbitrary single and two-qubit systems. We devise various schemes for quantum-state sharing of an arbitrary single- and two-particle state via cooperative teleportation. We later show that this state can be used for superdense coding as well. It is found that five classical bits can be sent by sending only three quantum bits.

• Received 29 August 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032321