The No Cloning Theorem

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Why you can’t clone Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full proof of the “No Cloning” Theorem in Quantum Mechanics – without any fancy math! (stereotypical qubit has been replaced with Schrödinger’s cat).

The full proof relies on the linearity of quantum (aka unitary) transformations, and the tensor product of multiple systems, to show that perfect cloning is impossible (though teleportation is allowed)

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REFERENCES:

The No-Cloning Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-clon...

MinutePhysics on Schrödinger’s Cat:    • Schrödinger's Cat  

Original No-Cloning Paper by Wootters and Zurech: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...

Original “Beyond No-Cloning” (ie, no-cloning workarounds) paper by Buzek & Hillery: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9607018

Optimal Quantum Cloning paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801009

Optimal Quantum Cloning paper II: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9910048

Quantum Cloning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum\_cloning

The History of Schrödinger’s (& Einstein’s) Cat: http://nautil.us/issue/41/selection/h...

The Stability of Black Powder (from the Civil War!): http://www.jpyro.com/wp-content/uploa...

Proof by contradiction: http://www.personal.kent.edu/\~rmuhamma/Philosophy/Logic/ProofTheory/proof\_by\_contradictionExamples.htm

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