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Remark: What is and is not conserved

The unitary preservation theorem · lines 399–405

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The theorem concerns reversible encoding of a quantum state. It is not a conserved scalar particle number or a thermodynamic entropy-production law. Subsystem entropy may increase after a partial trace while the complete evolution remains reversible.

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