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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 324 1 c ii Solution by
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Propagate each output observable backwards through the Clifford circuit and writeThe are mutually commuting Pauli operators, and measuring them on has exactly the required joint output distribution. Initially the first qubits are constrained by the stabilizer generators . Process the in order. If anticommutes with a current generator, part b gives a uniform outcome and a Clifford operation that replaces that generator by ; this step needs no measurement on . If commutes with every current generator, multiply it by known generators to remove its action on the first register. What remains is a Pauli observable on the resource qubits and is measured there. The nontrivial are independent and mutually commuting. An independent commuting family of Pauli operators on qubits has at most members, so . All effective observables are fixed by the original commuting family; the sampled outcomes merely update the classical Clifford frame. The resulting nonadaptive Pauli-based computation, followed by the stated outputs, is therefore a weak classical simulation of a quantum circuit with the same joint distribution.
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