Probabilistic Teleportation via Entanglement

With an arbitrary bi-particle entangled mixed state which is shared by Alice (the sender) and Bob (the receiver) acted as a quantum channel, at first, a teleportation protocol that Alice successfully transmits an unknown mixed state to Bob based on a positive operator-valued measurement (POVM) is presented. The upper bound of probability to teleport successfully an unknown mixed state is then investigated, and conclude that it completely depends on the entanglement degree of the bi-particle entangled mixed state as a resource.