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Optimal purification of single qubits

J. I. Cirac, A. K. Ekert, C. Macchiavello

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9812075

Abstract

We introduce a new decomposition of the multiqubit states of the form ρ N and employ it to construct the optimal single qubit purification procedure. The same decomposition allows us to study optimal quantum cloning and state estimation of mixed states.

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