Surpassing the no-cloning limit with a heralded hybrid linear amplifier for coherent states

oleh: Jing Yan Haw, Jie Zhao, Josephine Dias, Syed M. Assad, Mark Bradshaw, Rémi Blandino, Thomas Symul, Timothy C. Ralph, Ping Koy Lam

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-10-01

Deskripsi

Cloning an unknown quantum state is challenging and the limit on the quality of clones is set by the no-cloning theorem. Here, the authors demonstrated the surpassing of such a limit using an effective quantum cloner based on a hybrid probabilistic-deterministic linear amplifier.