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Past exam of the laser science and quantum information processing course of the University of Oxford 2022 5 c Solution by
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Read the source network as a Hadamard test: a Hadamard gate on the first qubit, a controlled unitary gate with the first qubit as control, and another Hadamard gate on that control. Starting from , the successive quantum states areApply b to the last line. Since by unitarity,For the Pauli Z gate observable on the first qubit, the two eigenvalues are and . ThusAs a check, returns outcome zero certainly, while returns one certainly. The controlled unitary gate makes this relative phase measurable even though multiplying an isolated system's quantum state by is only a global phase.
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