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{bell, inequality, local}

Probabilistic cloning and identification of linearly independent quantum states

Lu-Ming Duan, Guang-Can Guo

abstract: We construct a probabilistic quantum cloning machine by a general unitary-reduction operation. With a postselection of the measurement results, the machine yields faithful copies of the input states. It is shown that the states secretly chosen from a certain set $\$=\left\{\left| \Psi_1\right> ,\left| \Psi_2\right> ,... ,\left| \Psi_n\right> \right\} $ can be probabilistically cloned if and only if $% \left| \Psi_1\right>$, $\left| \Psi_2\right>$, $... ,$ and $\left| \Psi_n\right>$ are linearly-independent. We derive the best possible cloning efficiencies. Probabilistic cloning has close connection with the problem of identification of a set of states, which is a type of $n+1$ outcome measurement on $n$ linearly independent states. The optimal efficiencies for this type of measurement are obtained.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/9804064
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
Extension of quant-ph/9705018, 12pages, latex, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4999
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/9804064
journal_ref:
Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 4999-5002
created:
1998-04-27

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