Deterministic quantum cyclic controlled teleportation of arbitrary multi-qubit states using multi-qubit partially entangled channel

In this paper, we present a deterministic four-party quantum cyclic controlled teleportation (QCYCT) scheme, by using a multi-qubit partially entangled state as the quantum channel. In this scheme, Alice can teleport an arbitrary [Formula: see text]-qubit state to Bob, Bob can teleport an arbitrary [Formula: see text]-qubit state to Charlie and Charlie can teleport an arbitrary [Formula: see text]-qubit state to Alice under the control of the supervisor David. We utilize rotation gate, Hadamard gates and controlled-NOT (CNOT) gates to construct the multi-qubit partially entangled channel. Only Bell-state measurements, single-qubit von-Neumann measurement and proper unitary operations are required in this scheme, which can be realized in practice easily based on the present quantum experiment technologies. The direction of cyclic controlled teleportation of arbitrary multi-qubit states can also be changed by altering the quantum channel. Analysis demonstrates that the success probability of the proposed scheme can still reach 100% although the quantum channel is non-maximally entangled. Furthermore, the proposed four-party scheme can be generalized into the case involving [Formula: see text] correspondents, which is more suitable for quantum communication networks. We also calculate the intrinsic efficiency and discuss the security of the proposed scheme. Compared with the existing QCYCT schemes which realized cyclic controlled teleportation of arbitrary single-qubit states, specific two-qubit and three-qubit states, the proposed scheme is of general significance.