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Fundamental limits on quantum cloning from the no-signalling principle

Quantum Physics 2024-02-26 v3

Abstract

The no-cloning theorem is a cornerstone of quantum cryptography. Here we generalize and rederive in a unified framework various upper bounds on the maximum achievable fidelity of probabilistic and deterministic cloning machines. Building on ideas by Gisin [Phys.~Lett.~A, 1998], our result starts from the fact that remote state preparation is possible and the no-signalling principle holds. We apply our general theorem to several subsets of states that are of interest in quantum cryptography.

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@article{arxiv.2305.02002,
  title  = {Fundamental limits on quantum cloning from the no-signalling principle},
  author = {Yanglin Hu and Marco Tomamichel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02002},
  year   = {2024}
}
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