Quantum teleportation using non-orthogonal entangled channels

We study quantum teleportation with the resource of non-orthogonal qubit states. We first extend the standard teleportation protocol to the case of such states. We investigate how the loss of teleportation fidelity resulting from the use of non-orthogonal states compares to a similar loss of fidelity when noisy or non-maximally entangled states are used as the teleportation resource. Our analysis leads to some interesting results on the teleportation efficiency of both pure and mixed non-orthogonal states compared to that of non-maximally entangled and mixed states. (paper)