J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5): 583-587.

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A class of  optimal phase-covariant quantum cloning

ZHANG Wenhai1,3, DAI Jielin2,CAO Zhuoliang2,3, YANG Ming3   

  1. 1 Department of Physics, Huainan Normal University, Huainan 232001, China;
    2 Department of Physics, Hefei Teachers College, Hefei 230061, China;
    3 School of Physics and Material Science, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China
  • Received:2010-09-25 Revised:2011-04-07 Published:2011-09-28 Online:2011-08-18

Abstract:

The phase-covariant quantum cloning has an important application in quantum cryptography. By exploiting a general unitary transformation, the fidelity of clones is derived. The result shows that there exists a class of the optimal phase-covariant quantum cloning. For these explicit transformations of the phase-covariant quantum cloning, the fidelity of clones is maximal and equal. Based on the cavity quantum electrodynamics, a scheme to implement the transformations of quantum cloning is proposed.

Key words: quantum information, quantum cloning, optimal phase-covariant quantum cloning, cavity quantum electrodynamics

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