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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2020 Quantum information 2 c Solution by
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Measure the first qutrit in the computational basis and the second in the orthonormal basis from Question 1(a), with those labels as outcomes. For first-party outcome 0, the unnormalized conditional vector of the second party is , so this outcome occurs with probability and leaves the normalized state .
The second-party Born rule probabilities are then , , and . HenceThe relevant joint probabilities are , each divided by . This distinguishes the conditional statement from an unconditional outcome probability. More generally, conjugate-state steering from a maximally entangled pair explains how the first local measurement determines the second party's conditional vector; the basis choice here makes that vector especially simple.
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