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Redundantly Amplified Information Suppresses Quantum Correlations in Many-Body Systems
Davide Girolami1, Akram Touil2,3, Bin Yan3,4
1DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino 10129, Italy.
Physical Review Letters
|July 16, 2022
Summary
Quantum Darwinism explains objective reality by showing how environmental monitoring reveals classical information from quantum systems. This emergent feature bypasses quantum weirdness through decoherence and amplification.
Area of Science:
- Quantum Information Theory
- Quantum Many-Body Systems
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Background:
- Understanding the emergence of classical objectivity from quantum mechanics is a fundamental challenge.
- Quantum Darwinism proposes that the environment selects and amplifies classical information from quantum systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To establish bounds on quantum correlations in many-body systems.
- To investigate the role of the environment in the emergence of classical objectivity.
- To validate the core principles of quantum Darwinism.
Main Methods:
- Deriving bounds on quantum correlations in many-body systems.
- Analyzing the information accessible to independent agents monitoring environment fragments.
- Examining the scaling of conditional mutual information.
Main Results:
- Bounds reveal that only amplified, redundant information about decoherence-resistant pointer observables is accessible.
- A distinctive scaling of conditional mutual information signals the emergence of classical objectivity.
- The information deficit bounds the lack of consensus between observing agents.
Conclusions:
- Objective classical reality is an emergent feature of quantum theory, not an assumption.
- Quantum Darwinism provides a framework for understanding how classical information arises from quantum systems.
- The study validates quantum Darwinism by showing how environmental interactions lead to classical objectivity.
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