Quantum teleportation of an arbitrary two-qubit state and its relation to multipartite entanglement

We explicitly show a protocol in which an arbitrary two qubit state vertical bar phi >=a vertical bar 00 >+b vertical bar 01 >+c vertical bar 10 >+d vertical bar 11 > is faithfully and deterministically teleported from Alice to Bob. We construct the 16 orthogonal generalized Bell states that can be used to teleport the two qubits. The local operations Bob must perform on his qubits in order to recover the teleported state are also constructed. They are restricted only to single-qubit gates. This means that a controlled-NOT gate is not necessary to complete the protocol. A generalization where N qubits are teleported is also shown. We define a generalized magic basis, which possesses interesting properties. These properties help us to suggest a generalized concurrence from which we construct a measure of entanglement that has a clear physical interpretation: A multipartite state has maximum entanglement if it is a genuine quantum teleportation channel.