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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 32 3 b Solution by
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The transpose map in a fixed basis is linear, trace preserving and positive: if , then for every , . It is nevertheless not a completely positive map. Apply to the two-qubit Bell state . The resulting operator iswith eigenvalues . The negative eigenvector is . Thus a positive input on system plus reference acquires a negative expectation value. Transposition is positive but not completely positive, so it cannot be a deterministic local quantum process on arbitrary entangled states.
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