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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 59 1 Solution by
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Apply the Schmidt decomposition to the bipartite pure state. Local unitary operators put it in the form , with after interchanging basis vectors. Both Schmidt coefficients are nonzero because the state is entangled. Put .
For this state, direct application of the Pauli operators givesFor example interchanges and , giving ; the crossed products take these two kets into their orthogonal complement.
Choose the CHSH axes for an entangled pure two-qubit state:Their associated Bloch vectors have unit length, so each is a valid two-outcome projective measurement with projectors or . The correlation combination isA local hidden-variable assignment with outcomes gives absolute value at most two: exactly one of and vanishes, while the other is . Averaging these assignments preserves that bound, which is the CHSH inequality.
Therefore . For the original state , conjugate Alice's observables by and Bob's by . These conjugations rotate their measurement axes and preserve all the displayed correlations. Thus every entangled pure two-qubit state has the requested violating axes. The maximally entangled case gives , while the unentangled limit merely saturates two.
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