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I wrote a blog post explaining the quantum pigeonhole paper (but critical of their interpretation of that result). As part of trying to improve at writing, I'm requesting criticism. What was confusing, what was good, what was rushed, what was wrong, etc.
Also discussion about the quantum pigeonhole principle itself is fitting.
Excerpt from the middle of the post:
Also discussion about the quantum pigeonhole principle itself is fitting.
Excerpt from the middle of the post:
So what's happening is:
- The two qubits touched by the referee end up in the even-parity state |00⟩+|11⟩ or the odd-parity state |01⟩+|10⟩.
- Rotating every qubit by 90° doesn't affect the untouched qubits, but inverts the parity of the touched qubits. If the referee wrote down "disagree", the two touched qubits now agree. If the referee wrote down "agree", the two touched qubits now disagree.
- When we measure the qubits and they all return the same result, we know the parity of every pair ended up "agree". And since we inverted the parity of the pair the referee measured, the referee must have measured "disagree".