Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/ii/paper-2/15d/b/iii/solution

There are uncountably many physically distinct one-qubit unitaries. Part (ii) would require an orthogonal program state for every one, whereas a -qubit register has dimension only . This contradiction is the no-programming theorem, so no deterministic gate satisfying (PROG) exists.

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