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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 66 1 c Solution by
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Use one shared pair to measure , and the other to measure . The latter entanglement-assisted nondemolition parity measurement is obtained by applying Hadamard gates to both system qubits before and after the -parity circuit. Since at each site, the two minus signs cancel, giving .
The Bell states have joint eigenvaluesand are therefore distinguished uniquely by the two meter parities. For records and , the combined Kraus operator isEach is the rank-one projector onto the corresponding Bell state. This is a Bell-state nondemolition measurement: an input Bell state remains exactly that state for every possible local record. The local circuits can be scheduled without communication; the identity of the Bell state is known only when the classical records are brought together. Two parity bits distinguish all four Bell states without disturbing them.
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