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Past exam of the laser science and quantum information processing course of the University of Oxford 2005 7 and 8 8 2 Solution by
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Define the Hadamard basis and write . After the two-qubit quantum state isApplying the Hadamard gate to the first qubit gives the normalized quantum stateFor , , soThe first is a product state. The second is exactly the minus Bell state in the printed phase gate convention; its reduced density matrices are .
For three qubits, let use the ordered pair and the ordered pair . The two diagonal quantum gates commute. For their action before the final Hadamard gates isIf is even this is , and gives . If is odd, group the quantum superposition by the middle qubit:Since and , the final states areThe odd case is a GHZ state: each individual qubit has reduced density matrix , and it is related to by the local Pauli gates . Conversely, applying those gates converts to that standard form. They have not been applied in the printed network, so the actual output used in the next part is .
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