Editing No-cloning theorem (section)

== History ==

According to [[Asher Peres]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Peres|first=Asher|year=2003|title=How the No-Cloning Theorem Got its Name|journal=[[Fortschritte der Physik]]|volume=51|issue=45|pages=458–461|bibcode=2003ForPh..51..458P|doi=10.1002/prop.200310062|arxiv=quant-ph/0205076|s2cid=16588882}}</ref> and [[David Kaiser (physicist)|David Kaiser]],<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Kaiser | first = David | author-link = David Kaiser (physicist)
 | year = 2011
 | title = How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
 | publisher = [[W. W. Norton]] | isbn = 978-0-393-07636-3}}</ref> the publication of the 1982 proof of the no-cloning theorem by [[William Wootters|Wootters]] and [[Wojciech H. Zurek|Zurek]]<ref name = "wootterszurek"/> and by [[Dennis Dieks|Dieks]]<ref name = "dieks" /> was prompted by a proposal of [[Nick Herbert (physicist)|Nick Herbert]]<ref>{{cite journal | last = Herbert|first=Nick|year=1982|title = FLASH—A superluminal communicator based upon a new kind of quantum measurement|journal = [[Foundations of Physics]]|volume =12|issue=12|pages=1171–1179|bibcode=1982FoPh...12.1171H|doi=10.1007/BF00729622|s2cid = 123118337}}</ref> for a [[superluminal communication]] device using quantum entanglement, and [[Giancarlo Ghirardi]]<ref name="Ghirardi2013">{{Citation|last = Ghirardi
| first = GianCarlo
| chapter = Entanglement, Nonlocality, Superluminal Signaling and Cloning
| date = 2013
| editor-last  = Bracken
| editor-first = Paul
| title  = Advances in Quantum Mechanics
| publisher = IntechOpen
| publication-date = April 3, 2013
| arxiv = 1305.2305
| doi = 10.5772/56429
| isbn = 978-953-51-1089-7
| s2cid = 118778014
}}</ref> had proven the theorem 18 months prior to the published proof by Wootters and Zurek in his referee report to said proposal (as evidenced by a letter from the editor<ref name="Ghirardi2013" />). However, Juan Ortigoso<ref>{{cite journal
 | last1=Ortigoso|first1=Juan|year = 2018|title = Twelve years before the quantum no-cloning theorem
 | journal = [[American Journal of Physics]]
 | volume = 86 | issue = 3 
 | pages = 201–205
 |doi = 10.1119/1.5021356 | arxiv = 1707.06910| bibcode = 2018AmJPh..86..201O| s2cid = 119192142 
 }}</ref> pointed out in 2018 that a complete proof along with an interpretation in terms of the lack of simple nondisturbing measurements in quantum mechanics was already delivered by Park in 1970.<ref name = "park" />