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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 51 2 a Solution by
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Write . For , the unmarked computational basis vectors in give the normalized vectorIts norm is one and , so these two vectors form an orthonormal basis for . Splitting the uniform superposition state into its marked and unmarked terms givesThe nonnegative coefficients select the specified angle in .
There is one degenerate boundary case: if , then and is one-dimensional. No vector in can complete to a two-element orthonormal basis. Thus the printed two-dimensional description needs . For the search itself is already solved, with and no query.
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