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View SchemaNoncommuting mixed states cannot be broadcast
| Authors | H. Barnum, C. M. Caves, C. A. Fuchs, R. Jozsa, B. Schumacher |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9511010 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9511010 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2818 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 2818-2821 |
Abstract
We show that, given a general mixed state for a quantum system, there are no physical means for {\it broadcasting\/} that state onto two separate quantum systems, even when the state need only be reproduced marginally on the separate systems. This result generalizes and extends the standard no-cloning theorem for pure states.
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