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Let $B$ be a star-algebra with a state $\phi$, and $t > 0$. Through a Fock space construction, we define two states $\Phi_t$ and $\Psi_t$ on the tensor algebra $T(B, \phi)$ such that under the natural map $(B, \phi) \rightarrow (T(B, \phi),…