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arXiv:quant-ph/0510221

Non Existence of Quantum Mechanical Self Replicating Machine

Prashant ., Indranil Chakrabarty

Published Oct 28, 2005• 2 citations
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Abstract

In this letter we establish the impossibility of existence of self replicating machine in the quantum world. We establish this result by three different but consistent approaches of linearity of quantum mechanics, no signalling condition and conservation of entanglement under local unitary operations.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0510221

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