I want to know if one specific structural argument holds. Take a spin-1 system or NV centre ground-state triplet as a three-level observer T in C³, entangle it with N probe qubits. Joint space is C³ ⊗ (C²)^⊗N, dimension 3·2^N.
The joint state I prepare is:
|Ψ〉 = (1/√3) Σᵢ |rᵢ〉_T ⊗ |φᵢ〉_P
where |φᵢ〉 = (1/√2)(|0⋯0〉 + e^{iφᵢ}|1⋯1〉) with all three phases distinct.
In the observer eigenbasis ρ_joint has a 3×3 block structure. Off-diagonal blocks:
(ρ_joint)ᵢⱼ = (1/3)|φᵢ〉〈φⱼ|, i≠j
Non-zero because 〈φᵢ|φⱼ〉 = cos(Δᵢⱼ/2) ≠ 0 by construction.

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