Scheme for atomic-state teleportation between two bad cavities

A scheme is presented for the long-distance teleportation of an unknown atomic state between two separated cavities. Our scheme works in the regime where the atom-cavity coupling strength is smaller than the cavity decay rate. Thus the requirement on the quality factor of the cavities is greatly relaxed. Furthermore, the fidelity of our scheme is not affected by the detection inefficiency and atomic decay. These advantages are important in view of experiments.