Probabilistically Cloning and Quantum Computation

Gao Ting, Yan Feng-Li, Wang Zhi-Xi

Published 2004-06-15Version 1

We discuss the usefulness of quantum cloning and present examples of quantum computation tasks for which cloning offers an advantage which cannot be matched by any approach that does not resort to it. In these quantum computations, we need to distribute quantum information contained in states about which we have some partial information. To perform quantum computations, we use state-dependent probabilistic quantum cloning procedure to distribute quantum information in the middle of a quantum computation.