Solution

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Write and . After the controlled-NOT gate, the joint state is
An ancilla measurement outcome zero leaves the unnormalized data state . Outcome one leaves . Both outcomes have probability . The correction for outcome one is , and , so after correction the data is always , up to an irrelevant global phase. This proves magic-state injection of a T gate.
The resource state's Bloch vector is , outside the stabilizer octahedron. Clifford gates alone preserve stabilizer structure and, with standard-basis preparation and measurement, admit efficient classical simulation by the Gottesman--Knill theorem. Adding the non-Clifford T gate supplies a universal quantum gate set together with Clifford gates: arbitrary finite-qubit unitaries can be approximated to arbitrary precision. The assertion is approximate universality, not exact representation of every unitary by a finite circuit.

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