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Quantum Partial Information Decomposition

Quantum Physics 2023-11-27 v2

Abstract

The Partial Information Decomposition (PID) takes one step beyond Shannon's theory in decomposing the information two variables A,BA,B possess about a third variable TT into distinct parts: unique, shared (or redundant) and synergistic information. Here we show how these concepts can be defined in a quantum setting. We apply a quantum PID to scrambling in quantum many-body systems, for which a quantum-theoretic description has been proven productive. Unique information in particular provides a finer description of scrambling than does the so-called tri-information.

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@article{arxiv.2308.04499,
  title  = {Quantum Partial Information Decomposition},
  author = {S. J. van Enk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04499},
  year   = {2023}
}
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