Limitations on cloning in classical mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.3676295MaRDI QIDQ2853602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aaron Fenyes

Publication date 16 October 2013

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.6103

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

Abstract: In this paper, we show that a result precisely analogous to the traditional quantum no-cloning theorem holds in classical mechanics. This classical no-cloning theorem does not prohibit classical cloning, we argue, because it is based on a too-restrictive definition of cloning. Using a less popular, more inclusive definition of cloning, we give examples of classical cloning processes. We also prove that a cloning machine must be at least as complicated as the object it is supposed to clone.

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• Lectures on symplectic geometry
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• A physical perspective on classical cloning
• How the no‐cloning theorem got its name
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• No-cloning theorem in thermofield dynamics
• Physical Limits on Self-Replication Processes
• A general no-cloning theorem for an infinite multiverse

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