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Non Existence of Quantum Mechanical Self Replicating Machine

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v6

Abstract

In this letter we establish the impossibility of existence of self replicating machine in the quantum world. We establish this result by three different but consistent approaches of linearity of quantum mechanics, no signalling condition and conservation of entanglement under local unitary operations.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0510221,
  title  = {Non Existence of Quantum Mechanical Self Replicating Machine},
  author = {Prashant and Indranil Chakrabarty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0510221},
  year   = {2007}
}

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7 pages