Let a uniformly random bit be copied into a three-state classical register with probability , and otherwise replaced in by a flagged erasure independent of . Then bits. Projecting onto its two nonerased states and conditioning on success gives a perfectly correlated bit pair with mutual information one. The postselection branch is completely positive and trace decreasing, but renormalization after conditioning is not a deterministic quantum channel. This does not contradict data processing for quantum mutual information, which applies to trace-preserving operations or an unconditioned instrument including its outcome flag.
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