Teleportation of a cavity-radiation-field state: An alternative scheme

We present an alternative and experimentally feasible scheme to realize the teleportation of a cavity mode in a coherent superposition of zero-, one-, and two-photon field states. Particular nonmaximally entangled states of two-level atoms and particular cavity modes are employed and their preparation is discussed. A Ramsey-type arrangement, together with pointer atoms, is required to prepare the atomic entangled states as well as to read out the cavity system. Basically, the pointer atoms induce the state-vector collapse of the field in the cavity system and indicate, through their detection, the measurement result. {} 1996 The American Physical Society.