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Suppose a perfect $|{\varphi }^{+}⟩$ Bell pair is used for quantum teleportation, but the sender cannot distinguish the ${\varphi }^{+}$ and ${\varphi }^{-}$ Bell-basis measurement outcomes and guesses their labels uniformly. Each of the four actual outcomes has probability $1/4$. Either ambiguous outcome gives an incorrect Pauli Z gate correction with conditional probability $1/2$, so the total phase-flip probability is $1/4$. The unconditional output is therefore the displayed phase-flip channel. For $|\psi ⟩=\alpha |0⟩+\beta |1⟩$, its teleportation fidelity is $⟨\psi |\mathcal{E}(|\psi ⟩⟨\psi |)|\psi ⟩=1-|\alpha {|}^2|\beta {|}^2$. It ranges from $3/4$ on the Bloch sphere equator to $1$ at its poles. This averages the output density operators, including the ambiguous rounds.

A two-qubit parity phase gate multiplies odd-parity computational vectors by $e^{i\theta }$ and fixes even-parity ones. With $R_{\theta }=\mathrm{diag}(1,e^{i\theta })$,The first controlled-NOT gate computes $x\oplus y$ in the second wire, the phase gate multiplies by $e^{i\theta (x\oplus y)}$, and the last controlled-NOT gate restores the original bits. This compute-phase-uncompute construction leaves the data unchanged except for the desired phases. The more general Pauli-string phase by parity computation uses the same mechanism. In terms of the Pauli Z gate, $G_{\theta }=e^{i\theta /2}\exp [-i\theta (Z\otimes Z)/2]$; the scalar factor ensures equality as a matrix, rather than only up to global phase.

The zero-total-$Z$ eigenspace of two spin one-half systems stores one logical qubit. Both basis states satisfy $(ZI+IZ)|\psi ⟩=0$, so every collective dephasing rotation acts as the identity operator on their span. Also $ZZ|01⟩=-|01⟩$ and $ZZ|10⟩=-|10⟩$, so simultaneous Pauli Z gates preserve every encoded density matrix. For independent rotations, the logical amplitudes instead acquire phases $e^{-i({\varphi }_1-{\varphi }_2)/2}$ and $e^{i({\varphi }_1-{\varphi }_2)/2}$, which generally alter their relative phase. The code is not a two-dimensional decoherence-free subspace for arbitrary collective rotations about all axes; the invariant two-spin singlet alone is only one-dimensional.