 Trace distance for qubit dephasing

For the pure qubit $\alpha |0⟩+\beta |1⟩$, subtracting the output of dephasing channel leaves a Hermitian matrix with zero diagonal and off-diagonal modulus $|\alpha \beta ||1-c|$. Its two eigenvalues are that number and its negative, giving the displayed trace distance. For real $c=1-2p$, this is $2p|\alpha \beta |$.