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Equation 8 · The Entry a Relabeling Cannot Write

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Hc\mathcal H_c

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HcH_c

Symbol H_c

wrong, does not touch the total energy of any closed system, and does not by itself explain where a nonzero reading comes from.

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subscript

subscript

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A coarse description reports less. It is built from a completely positive, trace-preserving map Λ\Lambda , a quantum channel sending fine states to coarse states, together with a coarse Hilbert space Hc\mathcal H_c and a Hermitian coarse Hamiltonian HcH_c on it. The simplest case is the partial trace over the bath, Λ(ρ)\Lambda(\rho) = TrB\mathrm{Tr}_B[ρ\rho] with Hc\mathcal H_c = HS\mathcal H_S ; nothing below depends on that particular choice, and a passive relabeling built from no discarding at all, treated next, is a channel too.

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