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Charlie measures his qubit in the $X$ basis, $|\pm ⟩=(|0⟩\pm |1⟩)/\sqrt{2}$. Rewriting the GHZ state in that basis givesEach outcome occurs with probability $1/2$. Charlie records $c=0$ for $+$ and $c=1$ for $-$ and sends that bit to Bob. Alice and Bob's conditional Bell state is $(I\otimes Z^c)|{\Phi }^{+}⟩$. Bob applies $X{Z}^c$, with $Z^c$ applied first. ThenThus every measurement branch gives the requested state after a known local correction: success is deterministic. All quantum operations act on only one party, and the only nonlocal resource used during the protocol is classical communication. This is localizing a Bell pair from a GHZ state by LOCC.

Ignoring Charlie's outcome instead gives Alice and Bob the average state $\frac{1}{2}(|{\Phi }^{+}⟩⟨{\Phi }^{+}|+|{\Phi }^{-}⟩⟨{\Phi }^{-}|)=\frac{1}{2}(|00⟩⟨00|+|11⟩⟨11|)$, which is separable. The classical record supplies the correction needed to use the conditional entanglement; no communication-free preparation of a known entangled state is being claimed.