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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2020 Quantum information 1 b ii Solution by
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Choose . Its inner products with the three measurement vectors are , so the Born rule gives certainty for the outcome labelled 2 and zero probability for the other two outcomes. This uses the measurement basis, rather than assuming that its label 2 means the initial state must be the computational vector .
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