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@@ -548,6 +548,11 @@ computational basis states, that is the states $\vert 00\rangle =\vert 0\rangle
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\times \vert 0\rangle$, $\vert 01 \rangle$, $\vert 10\rangle$ and
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$\vert 11\rangle$.
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This process is referred to in the language of Pauli measurements as
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_measuring Pauli-Z_" and is entirely equivalent to performing a
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computational basis measurement.
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===== The specific eigenvalues =====
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\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} 0\\ 0 \\ 1 \\ 0\end{bmatrix}=-1\begin{bmatrix} 0\\ 0 \\ 1 \\ 0\end{bmatrix}.
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!et
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We don't get the correct eigenvalues if we perform the measurement on the second qubits!
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We don't get the correct eigenvalues if we perform the measurement on the second qubit!
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===== The $\bm{I}\otimes \bm{Z}$ term =====
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===== The $\bm{Z}\otimes \bm{Z}$ term =====
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Thus the tensor products of two Pauli-$\bm{Z}$ operators forms a matrix
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composed of two spaces consisting of $+1$ and $-1$ as eigenvalues.
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As with the single-qubit case, both constitute a half-space, meaning that half of
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the accessible vector space belongs to the eigenspace with eigenvalue $+1$ and the
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remaining half to the eigenspace with eigenvalue $-1$.
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This term gives the correct eigenvalue when operating on the first
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qubit. In principle thus we don't need to rewrite string of operators.
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However, let us rewrite it via a unitary transformation in
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0\rangle \times \vert 0\rangle$, $\vert 01 \rangle$, $\vert 10\rangle$
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and $\vert 11\rangle$.
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===== Transformations =====
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Any unitary transformation of such matrices also describes two
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half-spaces labeled with eigenvalues. For example, from the identity
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that . Similar to the one-qubit case, all two-qubit Pauli-measurements
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can be written as for unitary matrices . The transformations are
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enumerated in the following table.
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===== More terms =====
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