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Phys. Rev. A 77, 022316 (2008) [8 pages]

Continuous-variable telecloning with phase-conjugate inputs

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Jing Zhang*, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng
State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People's Republic of China

Peter van Loock
Optical Quantum Information Theory Group, Institute of Theoretical Physics I and Max-Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse 7/B2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Received 21 November 2007; published 14 February 2008

We propose a scheme for continuous-variable telecloning with phase-conjugate inputs (PCI). Two cases of PCI telecloning are considered. The first case is where PCI telecloning produces M clones nonlocally and M anticlones locally, or vice versa. This kind of PCI telecloning requires only one Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) entangled, two-mode squeezed state as a resource for building the appropriate multimode, multipartite entangled state via linear optics. The other case is a PCI telecloning protocol in which both clones and anticlones are created nonlocally. Such a scheme requires two EPR entangled states for the generation of a suitable multipartite entangled state. As our schemes are reversible, optimal cloning fidelities are achieved in the limit of infinite squeezing.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.022316
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.022316
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.67.Mn, 42.50.Lc

*Corresponding author. jzhang74@yahoo.com; jzhang74@sxu.edu.cn