Perfect discrimination implies cloning for a known state family
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Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a device perfectly identifies which member of a known finite state family was supplied, its classical output can control state-preparation unitaries that prepare any requested number of fresh copies. The discrimination may destroy the supplied system.
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