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- From: tk@ai.mit.edu (Tom Knight)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Quantum cryptography: a flawed premise?
- Message-ID: <TK.92Oct14150437@entropy.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 19:04:37 GMT
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- In-reply-to: leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu's message of 12 Oct 92 22:40:51 GMT
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- Once more with feeling... You Can't Clone Quantum States. If you
- could, then you could copy a particle, measure its wave function in
- one axis, the other particle in the other axis, and violate the
- uncertainty principle. You can't.
-
- Lasers and laser-like amplifiers DO maintain polarization for incoming
- beams with large numbers of photons. They do not for incoming single
- photons. All of the photons coming out of the amplifier will be in
- the same state (nearly), but this state is NOT RELIABLY IDENTICAL to the
- incoming (single) photon state.
-