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View SchemaQuantum cloning and the capacity of the Pauli channel
| Authors | Nicolas J. Cerf |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9803058 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9803058 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4497 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 84 (2000) 4497 |
Abstract
A family of quantum cloning machines is introduced that produce two approximate copies from a single quantum bit, while the overall input-to-output operation for each copy is a Pauli channel. A no-cloning inequality is derived, describing the balance between the quality of the two copies. This also provides an upper bound on the quantum capacity of the Pauli channel with probabilities $p_x$, $p_y$ and $p_z$. The capacity is shown to be vanishing if $(\sqrt{p_x},\sqrt{p_y},\sqrt{p_z})$ lies outside an ellipsoid whose pole coincides with the depolarizing channel that underlies the universal cloning machine.
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