N-state Particles
One can imagine how the teleportation scheme given above might be extended to N-state particles, i.e. particles whose states lie in the N dimensional Hilbert space. The combined system of the three particles now has a dimensional state space. To teleport, Alice makes a partial measurement on the two particles in her possession in some entangled basis on the dimensional subsystem. This measurement has equally probable outcomes, which are then communicated to Bob classically. Bob recovers the desired state by sending his particle through an appropriate unitary gate.
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