Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/ii/paper-1/10d/b/solution

This is superdense coding. To encode , Alice applies respectively to her half of . These local Pauli operators transform the shared state into the four mutually orthogonal Bell states , up to irrelevant global phases. Alice sends her one qubit to Bob. Bob now holds both qubits and performs a Bell-basis measurement, whose outcome identifies Alice's two-bit message with certainty. One transmitted qubit communicates two classical bits because one shared Bell pair was available beforehand.

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