Eigenvalue mixing matrix of a unital quantum channel

ID: eigenvalue-mixing-matrix-of-a-unital-quantum-channel

Choose input eigenvectors and output eigenvectors for a unital quantum channel. Positivity makes the displayed entries nonnegative. Trace preservation makes every column sum one; unitality makes every row sum one. Thus is a doubly stochastic matrix and the output spectrum satisfies . The mixing matrix need not be a matrix of squared overlaps of a single unitary, even though its row and column constraints are the same.

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