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We study the problem of universal quantum cloning -- taking several identical copies of a pure but unknown quantum state and producing further copies. While it is well known that it is impossible to perfectly reproduce the state, how well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Alastair Kay

We propose a bio-inspired sequential quantum protocol for the cloning and preservation of the statistics associated to quantum observables of a given system. It combines the cloning of a set of commuting observables, permitted by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 U. Alvarez-Rodriguez , M. Sanz , L. Lamata , E. Solano

This paper discusses a restriction of quantum theory, in which very complex states would be excluded. The toy theory is phrased in the language of the circuit model for quantum computing, its key ingredient being a limitation on the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Valerio Scarani

The cloning of quantum variables with continuous spectra is analyzed. A universal - or Gaussian - quantum cloning machine is exhibited that copies equally well the states of two conjugate variables such as position and momentum. It also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. J. Cerf , A. Ipe , X. Rottenberg

We study quantum cloning machines (QCM) that act on an unknown N-level quantum state and make M copies. We give a formula for the maximum of the fidelity of cloning and exhibit the unitary transformations that realize this optimal fidelity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergio Albeverio , Shao-Ming Fei

Possibility of state cloning is analyzed in two types of generalizations of quantum mechanics with nonlinear evolution. It is first shown that nonlinear Hamiltonian quantum mechanics does not admit cloning without the cloning machine. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Arsenovic , N. Buric , D. B. Popovic , M. Radonjic , S. Prvanovic

Whether the complex numbers of standard quantum theory are experimentally indispensable has remained open for decades. Real quantum theory (RQT), obtained by replacing complex amplitudes with real ones while retaining the usual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Timothée Hoffreumon , Mischa P. Woods

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

The quantum no cloning theorem is an essential result in quantum information theory. Following this idea, we give a physically natural definition of cloning in the context of classical mechanics using symplectic geometry, building on work…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Yuan Yao

We discuss the role of the notion of information in the description of physical reality. We consider theories for which dynamics is linear with respect to stochastic mixing. We point out that the no-cloning and no-deleting principles emerge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 Michal Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We discuss the usefulness of quantum cloning and present examples of quantum computation tasks for which cloning offers an advantage which cannot be matched by any approach that does not resort to it. In these quantum computations, we need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gao Ting , Yan Feng-Li , Wang Zhi-Xi

In this paper, first we explain what are the `quantum displacements'. We establish a group of bases, which contains the coupled bases coupling a ququart and a bipartite qubit systems. By these bases, we can realize the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zai-Zhe Zhong

We present Quantum Cloning Machines (QCM) that transform N identical qubits into $M>N$ identical copies and we prove that the fidelity (quality) of these copies is optimal. The connection between cloning and measurement is discussed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 N. Gisin , S. Massar

It is known that the stronger no-cloning theorem and the no-deleting theorem taken together provide the permanence property of quantum information. Also, it is known that the violation of the no-deletion theorem would imply signalling.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Indranil Chakrabarty , A. K. Pati , Satyabrata Adhikari

The no-cloning theorem prohibits the creation of identical copies of quantum information, imposing fundamental constraints on quantum technologies. A recently proposed protocol, encrypted cloning, introduced by Yamaguchi and Kempf, showed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Zheng Liang Lim , Hoi-Kwong Lo

The no-cloning theorem asserts that, unlike classical information, quantum information cannot be copied. This seemingly undesirable phenomenon is harnessed in quantum cryptography. Uncloneable cryptography studies settings in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Or Sattath

Multiphoton state in quantum cryptography decreases its security. Key disclosing with universal quantum cloning machine (UQCM) is considered in explicit manner. Although UQCM cannot make perfect clones, there is some invariant quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsuyoshi Nishioka , Toshio Hasegawa , Hirokazu Ishizuka

No-cloning theorem forbids perfect cloning of an unknown quantum state. A universal quantum cloning machine (UQCM), capable of producing two copies of any input qubit with the optimal fidelity, is of fundamental interest and has…

The celebrated Bell's no-go theorem rules out the hidden-variable theories falling in the hypothesis of locality and causality, by requiring the theory to model the quantum correlation-at-a-distance phenomena. Here I develop an independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Doriano Brogioli

Quantum cloning machine for arbitrary mixed states in symmetric subspace is proposed. This quantum cloning machine can be used to copy part of the output state of another quantum cloning machine and is useful in quantum computation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Heng Fan