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Quantum cloning in spin networks

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We introduce an approach to quantum cloning based on spin networks and we demonstrate that phase covariant cloning can be realized using no external control but only with a proper design of the Hamiltonian of the system. In the 1 -> 2 cloning we find that the XY model saturates the value for the fidelity of the optimal cloner and gives values comparable to it in the genera N -> M case. We finally discuss the effect of external noise. Our protocol is much more robust to decoherence than a conventional procedure based on quantum gates.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0402071,
  title  = {Quantum cloning in spin networks},
  author = {G. De Chiara and R. Fazio and C. Macchiavello and S. Montangero and G. M. Palma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0402071},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections, references updated, published version