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Rise of the photon clones: New method could lead to 'impenetrable' comms

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Re: "impenetrable privacy"

You cannot clone a quantum state (and I hate the article for using this term). You can *transfer* the state exactly to another particle but then you always lose it completely in the original particle. This is pretty fundamental.

This ‘‘doesn't mean it can't be done’’ but the physics required would be beyond current quantum mechanics, and most likely beyond the Standard Model.

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