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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 324 2 a Solution by
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Use control qubits and exact quantum phase estimation. A controlled on the unknown eigenstate can be synthesized from the available uncontrolled operation and the known eigenstate : conditionally swap into an auxiliary register initialized to , apply to that register, and swap back. The auxiliary state is restored, while the control-one branch acquires .
After Hadamard gates and these controlled powers, the control register isThe inverse quantum Fourier transform maps this state exactly to , so measurement determines with certainty. There are controlled swaps of qubits, each promised power costs , and the inverse transform uses elementary gates. The total cost is therefore .
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