This one-parameter family maps every Bloch vector to . It is unital, trace preserving and Hermiticity preserving for every real . It is a positive map exactly when , because the output eigenvalues of a state are . Its Choi matrix has eigenvalues and with multiplicities one and three in the trace-two convention, so Choi's theorem on completely positive maps gives complete positivity exactly for . In that range the Kraus representation is a mixture of conjugations by with probabilities . The physically allowed maps are qubit depolarizing channels, including a limited range of negative Bloch scaling.

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