Optimal asymmetric phase-covariant and real state cloning in d dimensions

We generalize three symmetric cloners to the asymmetric cases and present three explicit cloning transformations as well as their corresponding fidelity distributions in d dimensions. The three asymmetric cloners, including the optimal asymmetric phase-covariant cloning (APCC) and the suboptimal asymmetric economical phase-covariant cloning (AEPCC) working without ancilla and the optimal asymmetric real state cloning (ARSC), together with the optimal asymmetric universal quantum cloning (AUQC) construct a generic cloning, where the quantum information of initial systems of different pure input states in d dimensions with their information not completely known can be optimally distributed to different final systems. By comparison of the fidelity distributions of the four asymmetric cloners, some interesting results can be obtained.

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