Quantum Dense Coding Without Joint Measurement

We propose two schemes for quantum dense coding without Bell states measurement. One is deterministic, the other is probabilistic. In the deterministic scheme, the initial entangled state will be not destructed. In the probabilistic scheme, the initial unknown nonmaximal entangled state will be transformed into a maximalentangled one. Our schemes require two auxiliary particles and perform single-qubit measurements on them. Thus our schemes are simple and economic.