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Remark: Capacity retirement is not a physical decoherence rate

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Allocation occupancy, recyclable ancillas, permanent capacity retirement, and classical forgetting are distinct operations. One may define a bookkeeping flux as the number of permanently retired capacity units per step. No theorem here identifies that quantity with a physical decoherence rate, entropy production rate, or coupling constant.

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