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From Quantum Teleportation to Functional Replication: Degrees of Freedom, Limits, and Testable Claims

Authors: Mc Coubrey, Albert Kurt;

From Quantum Teleportation to Functional Replication: Degrees of Freedom, Limits, and Testable Claims

Abstract

This preprint clarifies a common misconception: popular “teleportation” implies transporting matter, while quantum teleportation transfers state information using shared entanglement plus classical communication and necessarily consumes the input state (consistent with the no-cloning principle). The manuscript proposes a test-oriented framework for when it is scientifically meaningful to claim that a physical object or a human organ can be “copied.” The key distinction is between:(1) quantum-state transfer for a small, controlled set of degrees of freedom (DOF), where fidelity can be experimentally verified; and(2) functional replication, where an effective, testable description is reproduced to match form and/or function—without claiming to reproduce the full quantum microstate (which is infeasible due to decoherence and the explosion of DOF). The work includes concrete verification checklists: HOM/tomography/CHSH on the quantum side and perfusion/histology/function/safety on the biofabrication side. The preprint does not claim macroscopic matter transport via quantum teleportation; it frames organ “copying” strictly as functional replication with falsifiable biomedical metrics.

Keywords

quantum teleportation; degrees of freedom; decoherence; no-cloning; Bell-state measurement; Hong–Ou–Mandel; quantum tomography; 3D printing; biofabrication; vascularization; functional replication; digital twin

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