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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 51 3 e Solution by
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Applying the optimal single-copy filter independently gives a random number of exact successful targets with binomial distributionThe weak law of large numbers gives in probability. In contrast, collective entanglement concentration and entanglement dilution yield asymptotically targets with vanishing output error. The improvement is strict, not just nonnegative. Differentiating binary entropy givesSince , it follows thatThis is collective advantage over independent two-qubit filtering. Independent filtering discards the entanglement in product-state failure branches; the collective reversible asymptotic procedure avoids that extensive loss. The separately filtered targets are exact conditional on success, whereas the collective statement uses the vanishing-error convention from the previous part. Here the counted outputs are target states ; that is also the notation in the original printed question.
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