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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2021 Quantum information 2 a ii Solution by
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The displayed computational basis expansion is already a Schmidt decomposition, with coefficients and . For both are nonzero, so the Schmidt rank is two. A pure product state has Schmidt rank one. The state is therefore entangled throughout the specified open interval.
Equivalently, the reduced density matrix isThe reduced state is a mixed state, which is impossible for one factor of a pure product state. At the excluded endpoints the Schmidt rank drops to one, giving or .
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