Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-48/3/a/ii/solution

For positive operators, the unique positive square root of an operator respects tensor products: . To verify this, diagonalize ; the product eigenvectors have eigenvalues , whose square roots are . Hence the operator inside the outer square root in the fidelity factors as
Taking its positive square root and using gives .

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