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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2023 Quantum information 1 b iii Solution by
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Alice uses conjugate-basis steering of a Bell pair. Write the desired orthonormal basis for Bob as and . Entrywise complex conjugation in the computational basis gives Alice's orthonormal basisFor either in Bob's chosen orthonormal basis, the corresponding unnormalized conditional quantum state isIts squared norm is . Thus Alice measures in the complex-conjugate basis, obtaining the required Bob pure states with probability each. Averaging over Alice's undisclosed outcome leaves Bob's density matrix equal to , consistent with the no-communication theorem.
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