Quantum Imperfect Cloning

Brian N. Siegelwax
6 min readAug 24, 2020

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Quantum Mechanics forbids you from taking an unknown quantum state and making a perfect copy of it. Period. End of story. Don’t even think about it. Fuggedaboutit. Please. Just. Stop.

the no-cloning theorem states that it is impossible to create an independent and identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state

source: Wikipedia

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