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arxiv: quant-ph/0503168 · v2 · submitted 2005-03-20 · 🪐 quant-ph

Quantum information cannot be split into complementary parts

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keywords quantumcannotinformationsplitcomplementaryimpossibilityqubittheorem
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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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