Limits on broadcasting non-stabilizerness through unrestricted operations (2501.15794v1)

Abstract: In the resource theory of non-stabilizerness, we prove that stabilizer operations cannot replicate or broadcast the "magic" resource of all quantum states in an arbitrary finite dimension. Moreover, we show that even in unrestricted scenarios, there are fundamental limits on cloning the non-stabilizerness content of quantum states. When using an auxiliary system as part of the cloning process, we show that it is impossible to broadcast the non-stabilizerness of qubits that possess a greater degree of non-stabilizerness than the known states on which the transformations are based. We also derive the conditions to broadcast magic perfectly using unrestricted operations. Furthermore, we compare non-stabilizerness broadcasting with traditional state cloning methods, such as state-dependent and -independent cloners, which can achieve perfect broadcasting of states with known magic content. Our findings reveal that state-dependent cloning unitaries designed for specific states have lower average non-stabilizerness-generating power than magic-generating unitaries.