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How are anti-uniatryunitary operators applied?

I was reading about anti-uintaryunitary operators from wikipediaWikipedia. They give an example of an anti-unitary operator  :

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were $K$ is complex conjugate operation. $\sigma_y$ is defined with respect to two orthonormal vectors spanning a 2-D Hilbert space $H$ say $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$. Now if I have an initial vector as $\alpha|0\rangle+\beta|1\rangle$ would the operator $K$ apply only on complex number $\alpha,\beta$ ( result being $\alpha^*|0\rangle+\beta^*|1\rangle$ ) or on the vector $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ aslo ? If it does what does it mean to take complex conjugate of $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ ? My doubt arises because anti-unitaries not being linear can't be expressed only in terms of matrices.

How are anti-uniatry operators applied?

I was reading about anti-uintary operators from wikipedia. They give an example of an anti-unitary operator  :

enter image description here

were $K$ is complex conjugate operation. $\sigma_y$ is defined with respect to two orthonormal vectors spanning a 2-D Hilbert space $H$ say $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$. Now if I have an initial vector as $\alpha|0\rangle+\beta|1\rangle$ would the operator $K$ apply only on complex number $\alpha,\beta$ ( result being $\alpha^*|0\rangle+\beta^*|1\rangle$ ) or on the vector $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ aslo ? If it does what does it mean to take complex conjugate of $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ ? My doubt arises because anti-unitaries not being linear can't be expressed only in terms of matrices.

How are anti-unitary operators applied?

I was reading about anti-unitary operators from Wikipedia. They give an example of an anti-unitary operator:

enter image description here

were $K$ is complex conjugate operation. $\sigma_y$ is defined with respect to two orthonormal vectors spanning a 2-D Hilbert space $H$ say $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$. Now if I have an initial vector as $\alpha|0\rangle+\beta|1\rangle$ would the operator $K$ apply only on complex number $\alpha,\beta$ ( result being $\alpha^*|0\rangle+\beta^*|1\rangle$ ) or on the vector $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ aslo ? If it does what does it mean to take complex conjugate of $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ ? My doubt arises because anti-unitaries not being linear can't be expressed only in terms of matrices.

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How are anti-uniatry operators applied?

I was reading about anti-uintary operators from wikipedia. They give an example of an anti-unitary operator :

enter image description here

were $K$ is complex conjugate operation. $\sigma_y$ is defined with respect to two orthonormal vectors spanning a 2-D Hilbert space $H$ say $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$. Now if I have an initial vector as $\alpha|0\rangle+\beta|1\rangle$ would the operator $K$ apply only on complex number $\alpha,\beta$ ( result being $\alpha^*|0\rangle+\beta^*|1\rangle$ ) or on the vector $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ aslo ? If it does what does it mean to take complex conjugate of $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ ? My doubt arises because anti-unitaries not being linear can't be expressed only in terms of matrices.