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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 324 1 b ii Solution by
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Put and . The Pauli operators are Hermitian and satisfy and , soThus 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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