Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/quantum-information/1/d/solution

Use entanglement-assisted discrimination of a Pauli basis. Define the known single-qubit unitary operator by and . Prepare the device input and a reference ancilla qubit in
Apply the unknown device once to , then apply the known inverse to . Since
the possible two-qubit outputs are
These are the four mutually orthogonal Bell states. A Bell-basis measurement therefore identifies the device with certainty. Explicitly, apply a controlled-NOT gate , then a Hadamard gate on , followed by computational-basis measurements. The readouts identify , respectively. Thus one use of the device and one reference qubit suffice.

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