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Optional terminal observation

Typed preparation, coherent programs, and Enter › Optional terminal observation · lines 743–767

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A prescribed terminal measurement may be appended after quantum return:

Cout := BasisUnitary(Cout); x := Enter(Cout); returnBit(x);

Its target is the measurement channel , not . By contraction,

The converse for one chosen measurement fails: computational dephasing preserves its computational record but not off-diagonal matrix units.

Enter is not a magic evaluator. A program may be mathematically analysed for nonstabilizerness, but the primitive semantics of is the instrument (eq:enter).

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