2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/115816We provide, in an extremely simple way, an upper bound to the minimum number of unitary operators describing a general random-unitary channel.Final version accepted for publication. One wrong equation has been corrected, two notes and one reference have been addedQuantum PhysicsOn the minimum number of unitaries needed to describe a random-unitary channeltext