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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 66 2 i Solution by
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Use superdense coding. For the two-bit message , Alice applies to her half of the shared Bell state, where are the Pauli X gate and Pauli Z gate. The encoded states areThese four Bell states are orthonormal. Alice then transmits her one qubit to Bob, who now holds both qubits. A Bell-basis measurement identifies the message with probability one.
More explicitly, Bob can apply a CNOT gate with the received qubit as control and his original qubit as target, followed by a Hadamard gate on the control. The CNOT gate sends the encoded state toand the Hadamard gate sends this to . Computational-basis projective measurements therefore read out exactly. One transmitted qubit, assisted by one previously shared Bell pair, communicates two classical bits.
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