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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2020 / ii / Paper 2 / 15C / b

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The Hadamard gate conjugates the Pauli X gate into the Pauli Z gate:
HXH=Z.
(1)
When the control qubit is ∣0⟩, all three circuits act as the identity on the target. When it is ∣1⟩, the right-hand circuit acts on the target as HXH=Z. It therefore agrees with the Controlled-Z gate on every computational basis state, proving
CZ=(I⊗H)CNOT12​(I⊗H)​.
(2)
Conjugating both sides by I⊗H and using H2=I immediately gives the reverse identity
CNOT12​=(I⊗H)CZ(I⊗H)​.
(3)

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