Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 49 2 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use two-bit remote state preparation on a graph-state path. Alice performs the first two measurements from the preceding measurement-based quantum computation: angle on her first qubit, giving , then angle on her second, giving . She sends the pair to Bob, using exactly two classical communication bits.
The branch calculation already gives Bob's state as , where . Bob applies first and second, so his correction operator is . Since ,ThusThe final state is exactly the desired state up to the irrelevant global phase. No postselection is used: all four measurement branches have probability and are corrected. Bob does not need the angles themselves; Alice uses them in her measurement choices, while the two bits specify his Pauli correction.