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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 58 4 a i Solution by
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For , the Pauli X gate and Pauli Z gate act on different qubits in , so they commute. Their product is a Hermitian matrix and squares to the identity operator. Its eigenvalues have modulus one; equivalently it is a unitary operator. Therefore its spectral norm isThe qualification is necessary because the qubit labelled one does not exist for .
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