Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1864605 | Physics Letters A | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We prove a new impossibility for quantum information (the no-splitting theorem): an unknown quantum bit (qubit) cannot be split into two complementary qubits. This impossibility, together with the no-cloning theorem, demonstrates that an unknown qubit state is a single entity, which cannot be cloned or split. This sheds new light on quantum computation and quantum information.
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Authors
D.L. Zhou, B. Zeng, L. You,