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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 15D a Solution by
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Let be Alice's unknown qubit, and label her half of the shared Bell state by and Bob's by . Alice applies a Controlled-NOT gate from the unknown qubit to , then a Hadamard gate to the unknown qubit. The three-qubit state becomesAlice measures her two qubits in the computational basis and sends the two classical outcomes to Bob. Bob applies , recovering with certainty. This is quantum teleportation; Alice never needs to know the state.
For the shared GHZ state, Charlie first applies a Hadamard gate to his qubit. ThenCharlie measures in the computational basis. Outcome leaves Alice and Bob with ; outcome leaves , which either party converts to by applying after Charlie reports the outcome. Thus
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