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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2021 Quantum information 3 b i Solution by
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Write . Conjugating by a Pauli matrix keeps its own Bloch component and reverses the other two; for example,In the average of the four conjugations, the coefficient of every nonidentity Pauli matrix is zero. ConsequentlyThe Pauli operator basis gives the Bloch representation of a qubit density operator.[ref]
This is the qubit Pauli twirl, the dimension-two case of the Heisenberg-Weyl twirling channel. The argument uses only trace one, so it also works for mixed qubit inputs. The preparation label must be forgotten: conditioning on the label would retain a known pure branch rather than the maximally mixed state obtained by the ensemble average.
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