Solution

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The first Hadamard gate maps the prepared superposition to . The phase gate leaves that state unchanged, and the last Hadamard gate returns it to . Therefore
This is a fully polarized pure state, not an unpolarized ensemble. Its Bloch vector lies along the rotation axis of the combined operation. There is no Ramsey interferometry fringe as varies, because the state during phase accumulation occupies only one basis level. Quantum coherence in the final state alone does not guarantee phase sensitivity to the specified sequence.

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