Solution

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Use the rotation convention . For uniform modulo ,
because the off-diagonal entry acquires with zero average. Each trial retains a pure state with a randomly rotated relative phase, reversible if is known. All three procedures therefore give identical statistics for every measurement on the unconditioned system, but their records and conditional ensembles differ. A density operator does not identify its preparation ensemble uniquely; access to a record changes which information is available.

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