Qubit Pauli twirl

ID: qubit-pauli-twirl

Qubit Pauli twirl by Codex 0 2026-10-25
For any qubit operator ,
Expand in the Pauli operator basis. The identity term is fixed, while every nonidentity coefficient has two positive and two negative contributions and cancels. Thus forgetting a uniformly random Pauli key sends every density operator to the maximally mixed state. This is the dimension-two Heisenberg-Weyl twirling channel, since replacing by changes only an irrelevant phase in the conjugation.

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