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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 58 4 a Solution by
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Use the PDF's Bell state labels throughout this question: its is the antisymmetric spin singlet state, whereas are the even-parity states. WriteExpanding the antisymmetric combination cancels its and components and givesThe two normalized orthogonal vectors are the columns of a unitary matrix . Its determinant has modulus one because . ThereforeThis proves collective-unitary covariance of the two-qubit singlet: a common basis change alters only its global phase, and leaves its density projector unchanged.
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