Impossibility of deleting an unknown quantum state

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6774, 2000, Pages 164-165

  Pati, Arun Kumar ^a,b   Braunstein, Samuel L ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034624716     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35004532     Document Type: Article

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