Cyclic assisted cloning of arbitrary unknown single-particle states in amplitude damping channel

In this paper, two conclusive three-party cyclic assisted cloning protocols in amplitude damping (AD) channel are put forward that, respectively clone three arbitrary unknown single-qubit states and single-qutrit states with the help of a state preparer. Each of our protocols includes three consecutive stages: quantum channel preparation, cyclic quantum teleportation (CQT), and multi-party assisted cloning. The first stage of each protocol proposes the detailed processes of sharing a pure entangled quantum state as a component of a quantum channel in AD channel via entanglement compensation. In second stage, a three-party CQT is presented where three unknown single-qubit states (or single-qutrit states) are reconstructed simultaneously in three different places, respectively, by introducing auxiliary qubits and performing appropriate operations. In the third stage, the state preparer Victor performs one multi-qubit measurement (or one unitary transformation and one multi-qutrit measurement) and informs the three communicators of his outcome, three distinct unknown single-qubit states or their orthogonal complement states (or single-qutrit states) are cloned simultaneously and with probability at three separate locations,respectively. Furthermore, we extend the above protocols from two aspects: (i) the extension to the case of [Formula: see text] participants; (ii) extension to the case of d-dimensional unknown single-qudit state cycle-assisted cloning.