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We derive a tight upper bound for the fidelity of a universal N to M qubit cloner, valid for any M \geq N, where the output of the cloner is required to be supported on the symmetric subspace. Our proof is based on the concatenation of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 D. Bruss , A. Ekert , C. Macchiavello

Quantum universality can be achieved using classically controlled stabilizer operations and repeated preparation of certain ancilla states. Which ancilla states suffice for universality? This "magic states distillation" question is closely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Ben W. Reichardt

Knowing and guessing, these are two essential epistemological pillars in the theory of quantum-mechanical measurement. As formulated quantum mechanics is a statistical theory. In general, a priori unknown states can be completely determined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Buzek , G. Drobny , R. Derka , G. Adam , H. Wiedemann

Quantum state purification, which operates not by identifying and correcting specific errors but by repeatedly projecting multiple noisy copies onto special subspaces, provides a syndrome-free alternative to quantum error correction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Xing-Chen Guo , Benchi Zhao , Xin Wang

We address a problem of identifying a given pure state with one of two reference pure states, when no classical knowledge on the reference states is given, but a certain number of copies of them are available. We assume the input state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Hayashi , M. Horibe , T. Hashimoto

Given a ciphertext, is it possible to prove the deletion of the underlying plaintext? Since classical ciphertexts can be copied, clearly such a feat is impossible using classical information alone. In stark contrast to this, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Anne Broadbent , Rabib Islam

We show how to optimally discriminate between K distinct quantum states, of which N copies are available, using one-at-a-time interactions with each of the N copies. While this task (famously) requires joint measurements on all N copies, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 Robin Blume-Kohout , Sarah Croke , Michael Zwolak

We consider the problem of quantum state certification, where one is given $n$ copies of an unknown $d$-dimensional quantum mixed state $\rho$, and one wants to test whether $\rho$ is equal to some known mixed state $\sigma$ or else is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Costin Bădescu , Ryan O'Donnell , John Wright

Quantum coherence is the most fundamental feature of quantum mechanics. The usual understanding of it depends on the choice of the basis, that is, the coherence of the same quantum state is different within different reference framework. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Chang-shui Yu , Yi-ren Yang , Bao-qing Guo

The inherent limitations of physical processes prevent the copying of arbitrary quantum states. Furthermore, even if we only aim to clone two distinct quantum states, it remains impossible unless they are mutually orthogonal. To overcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Zhi-Hao Bi , Jing-Tao Qiu , Xiao-Dong Yu

Cloning of observables, unlike standard cloning of states, aims at copying the information encoded in the statistics of a class of observables rather then on quantum states themselves. In such a process the emphasis is on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 Alessandro Ferraro , Matteo G A Paris

We study machines that take N identical replicas of a pure qudit state as input and output a set of M_A clones of a given fidelity and another set of $M_B$ clones of another fidelity. The trade-off between these two fidelities is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Iblisdir , A. Acin , N. Gisin

In a recent paper [2], Chang et al. have proposed studying "Quantum $\mathbb{F}_{un}$": the $q \mapsto 1$ limit of Modal Quantum Theories over finite fields $\mathbb{F}_q$, motivated by the fact that such limit theories can be naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Koen Thas

We propose an experiment which demonstrates the undoing of a weak continuous measurement of a solid-state qubit, so that any unknown initial state is fully restored. The undoing procedure has only a finite probability of success because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander N. Korotkov , Andrew N. Jordan

We have proven that there exists a quantum state approximating any multi-copy state universally when we measure the error by means of the normalized relative entropy. While the qubit case was proven by Krattenthaler and Slater (IEEE Trans.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Masahito Hayashi

Implementing a qubit quantum computer in continuous-variable systems conventionally requires the engineering of specific interactions according to the encoding basis states. In this work, we present a unified formalism to conduct universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Martin B. Plenio

The ability of implementing quantum operations plays fundamental role in manipulating quantum systems. Creation and annihilation operators which transform a quantum state to another by adding or subtracting a particle are crucial of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiangyu Kong , Shijie Wei , Jingwei Wen , Guilu Long

What resources are universal for quantum computation? In the standard model, a quantum computer consists of a sequence of unitary gates acting coherently on the qubits making up the computer. This paper shows that a very different model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael A. Nielsen

It is not a problem to complement a classical bit, i.e. to change the value of a bit, a 0 to a 1 and vice versa. This is accomplished by a NOT gate. Complementing a qubit in an unknown state, however, is another matter. We show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Buzek , M. Hillery , R. Werner

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental information processing task that serves as a building block for numerous applications and provides implications at the foundational level. In this work, we consider minimum error discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Tim Achenbach , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Hanwool Lee , Teiko Heinosaari