# Depolarization and Pauli Noise

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Multi-qubit partial depolarization is the same as multi-qubit Pauli noise where each multi-qubit Pauli error has equal probability independent of its (Hamming) weight.

Single-qubit partial depolarization applied to qubit 1 and then single-qubit partial depolarization to qubit 2 is not the same as multi-qubit partial depolarization.
