Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 67 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Let . The positive-exponent quantum Fourier transform gives . Reindexing the cyclic shift operator givesThus is an eigenstate with eigenvalue , with this sign fixed by the printed quantum Fourier transform convention.
Prepare the first two qutrits in and the answer qutrit in . The modular-addition quantum oracle applies to the answer. Its eigenvalue produces quantum phase kickback, leavingApply to each input qutrit, then measure them in the computational basis. The result isThe preparation, inverse transforms and measurements are independent of , and there is exactly one use of . This is qutrit linear-function identification, the ternary version of Bernstein-Vazirani phase kickback.