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Unknown quantum information cannot be perfectly copied (cloned). This statement is the bedrock of quantum technologies and quantum cryptography, including the seminal scheme of Wiesner's quantum money, which was the first…

If black holes were able to clone quantum states, a number of paradoxes in black hole physics would disappear. However, the linearity of quantum mechanics forbids exact cloning of quantum states. Here we show that black holes indeed clone…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Adami , G. Ver Steeg

After proving a general no-cloning theorem for black boxes, we derive the optimal universal cloning of unitary transformations, from one to two copies. The optimal cloner is realized by quantum channels with memory, and greately outperforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 G. Chiribella , G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti

We propose a scheme of continuous-variable reversible telecloning, which broadcast the information of an unknown state without loss from a sender to several spatially separated receivers exploiting multipartite entanglement as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jing Zhang , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

We discuss the possibility of creating money that is physically impossible to counterfeit. Of course, "physically impossible" is dependent on the theory that is a faithful description of nature. Currently there are several proposals for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 John H. Selby , Jamie Sikora

The superposition of states is one of the most fundamental issues in the quantum world. Generally there do not exist physical operations to superpose two unknown random states with nonzero probability. We investigate the superposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Bo Li , Xiao-Bin Liang , Shao-Ming Fei

Thermodynamics is one of the fascinating branches of traditional physics to certify the occurrence of many natural processes. On the other hand, quantum theory is the most acceptable description of the microscopic world. In the present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Tamal Guha , Mir Alimuddin , Preeti Parashar

Quantum cloning of two identical mixed qubits $\rho \otimes \rho $ is studied. We propose the quantum cloning transformations not only for the triplet (symmetric) states but also for the singlet (antisymmetric) state. We can copy these two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-12 H. Fan , B. Y. Liu , K. J. Shi

Here we show that, in principle it is possible to clone (measure) a single arbitrary unknown quantum state of a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle (an electron) with arbitrary precision and with success probability tending to one, using protective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 C. S. Sudheer Kumar

We argue that the claim given in quant-ph/9801014 remains untenable in the revised version. The fallacy in the proof is a misinterpretation of the no-cloning and teleportation theorems, which do not involve time and reference frames.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

"Ever since the advent of modern quantum mechanics in the late 1920's, the idea has been prevalent that the classical laws of probability cease, in some sense, to be valid in the new theory. [...] The primary object of this presentation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 PierGianLuca Porta Mana

A family of quantum cloning machines is introduced that produce two approximate copies from a single quantum bit, while the overall input-to-output operation for each copy is a Pauli channel. A no-cloning inequality is derived, describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicolas J. Cerf

Recently, Kavan Modi \emph{et al.} found that masking quantum information is impossible in bipartite scenario in [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{120}, 230501 (2018)]. This adds another item of the no-go theorems. In this paper, we present some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Mao-Sheng Li , Yan-Ling Wang

No-broadcasting theorem is one of the most fundamental results in quantum information theory; it guarantees that the simplest attacks on any quantum protocol, based on eavesdropping and copying of quantum information, are impossible. Due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Teiko Heinosaari , Anna Jenčová , Martin Plávala

The no-cloning theorem leads to information-theoretic security in various quantum cryptographic protocols. However, this security typically derives from a possibly weaker property that classical information encoded in certain quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ian George , Rene Allerstorfer , Philip Verduyn Lunel , Eric Chitambar

Probabilistic quantum cloning and identifying machines can be constructed via unitary-reduction processes [Duan and Guo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4999 (1998)]. Given the cloning (identifying) probabilities, we derive an explicit representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chuan-Wei Zhang , Zi-Yang Wang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We investigate the optimal distribution of quantum information over multipartite systems in asymmetric settings. We introduce cloning transformations that take $N$ identical replicas of a pure state in any dimension as input, and yield a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Iblisdir , A. Acin , N. Gisin , J. Fiurasek , R. Filip , N. J. Cerf

A well-known feature of quantum information is that it cannot, in general, be cloned. Recently, a number of quantum-enabled information-processing tasks have demonstrated various forms of uncloneability; among these forms, piracy is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Anne Broadbent , Alex B. Grilo , Supartha Podder , Jamie Sikora

We derive the transformation for the optimal universal quantum anti-cloner which produces two anti-parallel outputs for a single input state. The fidelity is shown to be 2/3 which is same as the measurement fidelity. We consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David D. Song , Lucien Hardy

The paper has been withdrawn by the author due to unhappy mistake in the initial scope of the work.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 Alexey E. Rastegin