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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 15D b Solution by
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Quantum no-signalling says that, without communicating a measurement outcome, any local trace-preserving operation performed on subsystem leaves all outcome probabilities for measurements on subsystem unchanged; equivalently, it leaves the reduced density matrix unchanged.
The two Bell states are orthogonal. Applying the inverse Bell-state preparation circuit, namely a Controlled-NOT gate from to followed by a Hadamard gate on , givesA computational-basis measurement therefore distinguishes them perfectly, soIf only is accessible, however,Every measurement on consequently has the same outcome distribution under both hypotheses. With equal prior probabilities no information is available, andthe error probability of a random guess.
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