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Past exam of the short options paper of the physics Prelims of the University of Oxford 2022 S03 3 e Solution by
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Alice's outcome is random. Conditional on knowing it, Bob may assign a different quantum state, but without that classical record he sees the same density matrix. For the displayed pure two-qubit state, his reduced density matrix before Alice's measurement isAfter Alice's computational-basis measurement with the outcome unannounced, the weighted mixture is exactly this same matrix. More generally, for any local trace-preserving operation with measurement operators ,The equality follows from the cyclic property of the partial trace for operators acting on Alice's subsystem. Bob's every local outcome probability therefore remains unchanged. This is the no-communication theorem: . Conditional state changes become usable correlations only when the classical outcomes are compared.
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