Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 2 15D b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Alice adjoins and applies a local unitary whose action on the relevant inputs isMeasuring and obtaining zero leaves the unnormalized stateso the normalized state is the Bell state . The success probability is .
Applying this entanglement concentration independently to pairs yields an expected Bell pairs. Alice and Bob measure successful pairs in the computational basis to obtain identical secret random bits; public communication identifies successful positions without revealing outcomes. These bits form a secret key for a one-time pad of expected length .