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We introduce the notions of algorithmic mutual information and rarity of quantum states. These definitions enjoy conservation inequalities over unitary transformations and partial traces. We show that a large majority of pure states have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Samuel Epstein

Attempts at cloning a quantum system result in the introduction of imperfections in the state of the copies. This is a consequence of the no-cloning theorem, which is a fundamental law of quantum physics and the backbone of security for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Frédéric Bouchard , Robert Fickler , Robert W Boyd , Ebrahim Karimi

We examine the two-party perfect quantum teleportation of an unknown 1-qubit state in the case of sharing various 3-qubit entangled states between a sender and a receiver: GHZ state, W state and W-like state. We give an impossibility proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Sora Kobayashi , Kei-Ichi Kondo

The problem of quantum state reduction in the process of measurement has attracted attention of almost everyone who created, developed or explained quantum physics to the students. Absence of a solution is the basis for the statement that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 Constantin V. Usenko

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

We study the teleportation scheme performed by means of a partially entangled pure state. We found that the information belonging to the quantum channel can be distributed into both the system of the transmitter and the system of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-31 Luis Roa

It is known that no quantum process can produce a predetermined superposition of unknown arbitrary states. It has already been shown that with some partial information about the states, one can produce with some probability such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mina Doosti , Farzad Kianvash , Vahid Karimipour

We show that it is possible to achieve maximally entangled mixed states of two qubits from the singlet state via the action of local non-trace-preserving quantum channels. Moreover, we present a simple, feasible linear optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Aiello , G. Puentes , D. Voigt , J. P. Woerdman

Quantum entanglement assisted with measurements provides various pathways to communicate information to parties within a network. In this work, we generalize a previous broadcasting protocol and present schemes to broadcast product and…

State cloning and state transposition are fundamental transformations which, despite being desirable, cannot be perfectly realised due to two conceptually distinct constraints of quantum theory: cloning is forbidden by linearity, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Vanessa Brzić , Dmitry Grinko , Michał Studziński , Marco Túlio Quintino

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

We argue that usual quantum statics and the dynamical equivalence of mixed quantum states to {\it probabilistic mixtures}suffice to guarantee a linear evolution law, which necessarily complies with the no-signaling condition. Alternatively,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gheorghiu-Svirschevski

It is shown that any quantum operation that perfectly clones the entanglement of all maximally-entangled qubit pairs cannot preserve separability. This ``entanglement no-cloning'' principle naturally suggests that some approximate cloning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Louis-Philippe Lamoureux , Patrick Navez , Jaromir Fiurasek , Nicolas J. Cerf

The universal quantum homogeniser can transform a qubit from any state to any other state with arbitrary accuracy, using only unitary transformations to perform this task. Here we present an implementation of a finite quantum homogeniser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Maria Violaris , Gaurav Bhole , Jonathan A. Jones , Vlatko Vedral , Chiara Marletto

We consider unambiguous discrimination of two separable bipartite states, one being pure and the other being a rank-2 mixed state. There is a gap between the optimal success probability under global measurements and the one achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-21 Masato Koashi , Fumitaka Takenaga , Takashi Yamamoto , Nobuyuki Imoto

We introduce the concept of a physical process that purifies a mixed quantum state, taken from a set of states, and investigate the conditions under which such a purification map exists. Here, a purification of a mixed quantum state is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kleinmann , H. Kampermann , T. Meyer , D. Bruss

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

In this work, we show that 'splitting of quantum information' [6] is an impossible task from three different but consistent principles of unitarity of Quantum Mechanics, no-signalling condition and non increase of entanglement under Local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Indranil Chakrabarty , S. Adhikari , Prashant , B. S. Choudhury

Quantum Communication is the art of transferring an unknown quantum state from one location, Alice, to a distant one, Bob. This is a non-trivial task because of the quantum no-cloning theorem which prevents one from merely using only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Nicolas Gisin

We study the process of quantum telecloning of $d$-dimensional pure quantum states using partially entangled pure states as quantum channel. This process efficiently mixes optimal universal symmetric cloning with quantum teleportation. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Gabriel Araneda , Nataly Cisternas , Aldo Delgado