Is It Possible To Clone Using An Arbitrary Blank State?

Abstract

We show that in a cloning process, whether deterministic inexact or probabilistic exact, one can take an arbitrary blank state while still using a fixed cloning machine.

4 pages latex final version, generalizations made to higher dimension and more copies

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• Optimal Quantum Cloning Machines
• Optimal Universal and State-Dependent Quantum Cloning
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