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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 iii Paper 53 4 3 Solution by
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Choose with . Then and . The matrix found in part 2 is a rotation by in the ordered good-bad plane, with the bad coordinate listed first. The initial coordinate vector is .
After rotations its angle from the bad axis is . Equivalently, multiplication of the displayed matrix and the addition formulas for sine and cosine prove the assertion by induction from . HenceThe Born rule therefore gives good-output probability . This is the geometric mechanism of amplitude amplification: each coherent iteration rotates the already existing good amplitude toward the good axis.
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