Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1865657 | Physics Letters A | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We show that unitarity does not allow cloning of any two points in a ray. This has implication for cloning of the geometric phase information in a quantum state. In particular, the quantum history which is encoded in the geometric phase during cyclic evolution of a quantum system cannot be copied. We also prove that the generalized geometric phase information cannot be copied by a unitary operation. We argue that our result also holds in the consistent history formulation of quantum mechanics.
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Authors
Arun K. Pati,