Trace-preserving and unital Kraus conditions
ID: trace-preserving-and-unital-kraus-conditions
For a Kraus representation , trace preservation is equivalent to the first identity, by cyclicity of the trace. The second says , namely unitality, and is a distinct constraint. For , the amplitude damping channel has operators and and is trace-preserving but not unital. Taking the adjoints as Kraus operators instead gives a unital completely positive map whose output trace on is .
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