Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-324/1/b/ii/solution

Put and . The Pauli operators are Hermitian and satisfy and , so
Thus is a unitary operator. For every Pauli operator , according as commutes or anticommutes with and , expansion of gives one of or , up to the phase that makes it Hermitian. It is therefore another Pauli operator, so normalizes the Pauli group and is a Clifford operation. Finally,
which is the normalized projection onto the eigenvalue- eigenspace of . Hence maps the eigenvalue- eigenspace of onto the eigenvalue- eigenspace of .

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