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Equation 54 · Part 1 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing

Symbol hat J

J^\hat J
J^\hat J

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hat J is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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What the covariance also does, though, is forbid the radiation from leaking coherence between different eigenspaces of J^\hat J to an observer who has not independently fixed a frame. Kitaev, Mayers, and Preskill made the resource cost explicit: a superselection rule restricting accessible operations to those commuting with a group can be simulated away entirely if the two parties already share a suitable reference…

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