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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2012/s3/3/5/solution

An ideal projective measurement yielding the antisymmetric state prepares that state at . Starting from it, the probability of reaching the symmetric state after an additional interval is again . At the full recurrence interval found above,
The full-period propagator is proportional to the identity on the two-dimensional subspace, so it returns the antisymmetric state to itself, not to its orthogonal partner. The result assumes the stated time-independent evolution continues after the measurement.

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