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Redundantly amplified information suppresses quantum correlations in many-body systems

Quantum Physics 2022-06-30 v2 Other Condensed Matter Atomic Physics

Abstract

We establish bounds on quantum correlations in many-body systems. They reveal what sort of information about a quantum system can be simultaneously recorded in different parts of its environment. Specifically, independent agents who monitor environment fragments can eavesdrop only on amplified and redundantly disseminated - hence, effectively classical - information about the decoherence-resistant pointer observable. We also show that the emergence of classical objectivity is signaled by a distinctive scaling of the conditional mutual information, bypassing hard numerical optimizations. Our results validate the core idea of Quantum Darwinism: objective classical reality does not need to be postulated and is not accidental, but rather a compelling emergent feature of quantum theory that otherwise - in absence of decoherence and amplification - leads to "quantum weirdness". In particular, a lack of consensus between agents that access environment fragments is bounded by the information deficit, a measure of the incompleteness of the information about the system.

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@article{arxiv.2202.09328,
  title  = {Redundantly amplified information suppresses quantum correlations in many-body systems},
  author = {D. Girolami and A. Touil and B. Yan and S. Deffner and W. H. Zurek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09328},
  year   = {2022}
}

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