Girolami Davide, Touil Akram, Yan Bin, Deffner Sebastian, Zurek Wojciech H
DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino 10129, Italy.
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2022 Jul 1;129(1):010401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.010401.
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 the 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.
我们建立了多体系统中量子关联的界限。这些界限揭示了关于量子系统的何种信息可以同时记录在其环境的不同部分。具体而言,监测环境片段的独立主体只能窃听到放大且冗余传播的——因此,实际上是经典的——关于抗退相干指针可观测量的信息。我们还表明,经典客观性的出现由条件互信息的独特标度发出信号,从而绕过了艰难的数值优化。我们的结果验证了量子达尔文主义的核心观点:客观经典现实无需被假定且并非偶然,而是量子理论中一个引人注目的涌现特征,否则——在没有退相干和放大的情况下——会导致“量子怪异”。特别地,访问环境片段的主体之间缺乏共识受到信息赤字的限制,信息赤字是衡量关于系统信息不完整性的一种度量。