Paper 2, Section I,
Part II, 2018
(a) The classical controlled- operation applied to the 2-bit string (for or 1 ) achieves the cloning of , i.e. the result is . Let denote the quantum controlled (or controlled-NOT) operation on two qubits. For which qubit states will the application of to (with the first qubit being the control qubit) achieve the cloning of ? Justify your answer.
(b) Let and be two distinct non-orthogonal quantum states. State and prove the quantum no-cloning theorem for unitary processes.