Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-laser-science-and-quantum-information-processing-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2019/4/c/iv/solution

For a uniformly distributed pure qubit on the Bloch sphere, rotational symmetry gives . Thus
Equivalently, is uniform on under this measure and . The three positive coordinate-axis states mentioned in the source give , , whose average is the same because this fidelity depends only on the quadratic component . This is a specified uniform-state average, not a statement about every possible prior ensemble.

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