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We show that unitarity does not allow cloning of any two points in a ray. This has implication for cloning of the geometric phase information in a quantum state. In particular, the quantum history which is encoded in the geometric phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Arun K. Pati

While the no-cloning theorem, which forbids the perfect copying of quantum states, is well-known as one of the defining features of quantum mechanics, the question of how well the theory allows a state to be cloned is yet to be completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Alastair Kay , Ravishankar Ramanathan , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Quantum computation teaches us that quantum mechanics exhibits exponential complexity. We argue that the standard scientific paradigm of "predict and verify" cannot be applied to testing quantum mechanics in this limit of high complexity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Dorit Aharonov , Umesh Vazirani

Applications of quantum mechanics rely on the accuracy of reading and writing data. This requires accurate measurements and preparations of the quantum states. I show that accurate measurements and preparations are impossible if the total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

In this paper, we introduce a new quantum bit commitment protocol which is practically secure against entanglement attacks. A general cheating strategy is discussed and shown to be practically ineffective against the proposed approach.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 S. Arash Sheikholeslam , T. Aaron Gulliver

The physics of a quantum system with many degrees of freedom is often approximated by downfolding: most of the degrees of freedom are "folded into" a much smaller number of degrees of freedom, resulting in an effective Hamiltonian that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Troy Van Voorhis

We propose a quantum copy-protection system which protects classical information in the form of non-orthogonal quantum states. The decryption of the stored information is not possible in the classical representation and the decryption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre

The no-go theorem regarding unconditionally secure Quantum Bit Commitment protocols is a relevant result in quantum cryptography. Such result has been used to prove the impossibility of unconditional security for other protocols, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Silvia Onofri , Vittorio Giovannetti

Communication over a quantum channel that depends on a quantum state is considered when the encoder has channel side information (CSI) and is required to mask information on the quantum channel state from the decoder. A full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Uzi Pereg , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

Recently, it has been argued that quantum mechanics is a complete theory, and that different quantum states do necessarily correspond to different elements of reality, under the assumptions that quantum mechanics is correct and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Giancarlo Ghirardi , Raffaele Romano

The manuscript [arXiv:2603.19208] proposes a physically motivated postulate to select the appropriate formulation of quantum theory over real Hilbert spaces, ruling out the theory considered in [Nature 600, 625-629 (2021)] in favour of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Fatemeh Moradi Kalarde , Xiangling Xu , Marc-Olivier Renou

Cloning of statistics of general quantum measurement is discussed. The presented approach is connected with the known concept of observable cloning, but differs in some essential respects. The reasons are illustrated within some variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Alexey E. Rastegin

The highly specialist terms `quantum computing' and `quantum information', together with the broader term `quantum technologies', now appear regularly in the mainstream media. While this is undoubtedly highly exciting for physicists and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz , Ferney J. Rodríguez , Luis Quiroga , Neil F. Johnson

Bit commitment schemes are at the basis of modern cryptography. Since information-theoretic security is impossible both in the classical and the quantum regime, we need to look at computationally secure commitment schemes. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 André Chailloux , Iordanis Kerenidis , Bill Rosgen

A method to hide certain quantum states in a superposition will be proposed. Such method can be used to increase the security of a communication channel. States represent an encrypted message will disappear during data exchange. This makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Ahmed Younes

Unmeasureability of a quantum state has important consequences in practical implementation of quantum computers. Like copying, deleting of an unknown state from among several copies is prohibited. This is called no-deletion prinicple. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arun K. Pati , Samuel L. Braunstein

There had been well known claims of ``provably unbreakable'' quantum protocols for bit commitment and coin tossing. However, we, and independently Mayers, showed that all proposed quantum bit commitment (and therefore coin tossing) schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Hoi-Kwong Lo , H. F. Chau

We present a bit commitment protocol based on quantum nonlocality that seems to bring ever-lasting unconditional security. Although security is not rigorously proved, physical arguments and numerical simulations support this conclusion. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 Gláucia Murta , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Adán Cabello

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

Quantum theory makes the most accurate empirical predictions and yet it lacks simple, comprehensible physical principles from which the theory can be uniquely derived. A broad class of probabilistic theories exist which all share some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Borivoje Dakic , Caslav Brukner