Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/quantum-information/2/a/ii/solution

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 is
The 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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