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In physics, the no-cloning theorem states that it is impossible to create an identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state. This no-go theorem of quantum mechanics was articulated by Wootters and Zurek and Dieks in 1982, and has profound implications in quantum computing and related fields. The state of one system can be entangled with the state of another system. For instance, one can use the controlled NOT gate and the Walsh–Hadamard gate to entangle two qubits. This is not cloning. No well-defined state can be attributed to a subsystem of an entangled state. Cloning is a process whose result is a separable state with identical factors. According to Asher Peres and David Kaiser, the publication of the no-cloning theorem was prompted by a proposal of Nick Herbert for a superluminal communication device using quantum entanglement. The no-cloning theorem is normally stated and proven for pure states; the no-broadcast theorem generalizes this result to mixed states. The no-cloning theorem has a time-reversed dual, the no-deleting theorem. Together, these underpin the interpretation of quantum mechanics in terms of category theory, and, in particular, as a dagger compact category.〔John Baez, Mike Stay, ''(Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone )'' (2009)〕〔Bob Coecke, ''Quantum Picturalism'', (2009) (ArXiv 0908.1787 )〕 This formulation, known as categorical quantum mechanics, allows, in turn, a connection to be made from quantum mechanics to linear logic as the logic of quantum information theory (in the same sense that classical logic arises from Cartesian closed categories). == Theorem and proof == Suppose the state of a quantum system A, which we wish to copy, is (see bra–ket notation). In order to make a copy, we take a system B with the same state space and initial state . The initial, or blank, state must be independent of , of which we have no prior knowledge. The state of the composite system is then described by the following tensor product: :. (in the following we will omit the symbol and keep it implicit) There are only two permissible quantum operations with which we may manipulate the composite system. We could perform an observation, which irreversibly collapses the system into some eigenstate of an observable, corrupting the information contained in the qubit(s). This is obviously not what we want. Alternatively, we could control the Hamiltonian of the system, and thus the time-evolution operator ''U'' (for a time independent Hamiltonian, , where is called the generator of translations in time) up to some fixed time interval, which yields a unitary operator ''U''. Then ''U'' acts as a copier provided that : for all possible states in the state space. We now select an arbitrary pair of states and drawn from the Hilbert space. Because ''U'' is unitary, it preserves the inner product: : and because quantum mechanical states are assumed to be normalized, it follows that : This implies that either or , so we obtain either or is orthogonal to . However, this cannot be the case for two ''arbitrary'' states. Therefore a single universal ''U'' cannot clone a ''general'' quantum state. This proves the no-cloning theorem. Note that it is possible to find specific pairs that satisfy the algebraic requirement above. An example is given by the orthogonal states : and one verifies that in this special case. But this relationship does not hold for more general quantum states. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「No-cloning theorem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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