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Proposition: Disorder-averaging counterexample

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An averaged channel can be constant while every realization retains distinguishable logical information.

Proof. For a qubit, let

Their equal mixture is the replacement channel . For each realization, the outputs of and are orthogonal. By the triangle inequality, its distance from any replacement channel is at least . Thus averaging has erased information in the description, not proved its absence in each realization.

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