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This is also where the resource-theoretic framing earns its keep rather than decorating the calculation. Bartlett, Rudolph, and Spekkens quantify exactly this kind of scarcity with what they call the asymmetry of a state relative to a group — a monotone that can only decrease under operations respecting the symmetry, never increase, no matter how cleverly the decoding is done [ 9 ] . $F_Q$[$\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)$] is one such monotone for this problem: scrambling redistributes the compass’s asymmetry across more and more of the radiation, but a symmetry-respecting evaporation isometry cannot manufacture more of it than the infalling compass supplied, and no clever choice of decoder can extract asymmetry that the reduced radiation state does not, as a matter of its own algebra, contain. A logical qubit carries no such monotone to begin with, since nothing about its identity is tied to $\hat J$ , which is the precise, checkable sense in which the two recovery problems are not variations on one theme but genuinely different resource-theoretic accounts.