Coauthors: Devon N. Biggerstaff, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Deny Hamel, Kevin J. Resch, and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Remote state preparation is the act of preparing at one location a state chosen at a different location, without actually transmitting the state itself. Using a teleportation-based scheme, one can theoretically prepare any qubit state remotely using at most two classical bits and one entangled bit. However, since any experiment is imperfect, the average fidelity between input and output states will not be perfect. But how good does it have to be? In order for a remote state preparation experiment to demonstrate genuinely quantum behaviour, it must beat the optimal threshold of a comparable classical situation. We examine remote state preparation protocols where only classical bits may be used, and determine the optimal fidelity value in several different cases, providing benchmarks for genuinely quantum behaviour.