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Write the system's basis as , and use a separate pair of meter qubits in the Bell state . Alice applies a CNOT gate from system to her meter qubit; Bob simultaneously applies a CNOT gate from to his meter qubit. Flipping neither or both meter qubits preserves , while flipping exactly one gives . Hence the entanglement-assisted nondemolition parity measurement interaction produceswhere and . Each party now measures only their meter qubit in the basis. If their binary records are , the system Kraus operator isUnequal records verify zero total spin, since vanishes precisely on the odd sector. The probability of success is , and the successful conditional state is . Every zero-total--spin state is left unchanged, including any coherent superposition of and . Similarly the even-sector coherence is preserved. This is a quantum nondemolition measurement of the parity, rather than separate measurements of both system spins.
All quantum operations and local meter measurements can finish within the spacelike time window. Nevertheless each local meter record is individually uniform: . The verification result is obtained only by comparing the records using local operations and classical communication. Thus “instantaneous” refers to the local completion of the joint measurement instrument, not instant access to its nonlocal outcome; quantum no-signalling remains intact.
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