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Alice cannot send a bit to Charlie either. An argument based only on the apparent chronological chain would be insufficient: Alice interacts with Bob before Bob interacts with Charlie. The extra fact is that these particular gates commute.

In Bob's computational basis the complete gate isBoth controlled-NOT gates preserve Bob's control label, and their target operations act on different systems. Thus $WV=VW$. We may consequently regard Bob–Charlie as the first interaction and Bob–Alice as the last one. The final operation on $AB$ cannot change Charlie's reduced density matrix, and Charlie's earlier state cannot depend on Alice's initially separate preparation.

The target no-signalling in a common-control unitary formula makes the independence explicit:Alice's density matrix does not appear. The formula includes arbitrary complex initial amplitudes and every final measurement on Charlie. This conclusion uses the specified pair of gates; a general intervening operation on Bob could change the communication possibilities.