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Title: Optimal cloning of qubits from replicas of a qubit and its orthogonal states

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation 3-1, Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa Prefect, 243-0198 (Japan)

We consider the situation where s replicas of a qubit with an unknown state and its orthogonal k replicas are given as an input, and we try to make c clones of the qubit with the unknown state. As a function of s, k, and c, we obtain the optimal fidelity between the qubit with an unknown state and the clone by explicitly giving a completely positive trace-preserving (CPTP) map that represents a cloning machine. We discuss dependency of the fidelity on the values of the parameters s, k, and c.

OSTI ID:
21448652
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.032314; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English