Solution

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Normalize the supplied Bell state as , with and . For a measurement of linear photon polarization, the two orthogonal analyzer states can be taken as
Assigning outcomes gives the observable
where are the Pauli operators. The angle of the Bloch vector is twice the physical analyzer angle. Hence
Each has eigenvalues and square equal to the identity operator.

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