Abstract
We show that in the case of unknown harmonic oscillator coherent states it is possible to achieve what we call perfect information cloning. By this we mean that it is still possible to make arbitrary number of copies of a state which has exactly the same information content as the original unknown coherent state. By making use of this perfect information cloning it would be possible to estimate the original state through measurements and make arbitrary number of copies of the estimator. We define the notion of a measurement fidelity and calculate it for our case as well as for the Gaussian cloners.
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Hari Dass, N.D., Ganesh, P. Information cloning of harmonic oscillator coherent states. Pramana - J Phys 59, 263–267 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-002-0116-2
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