Measures of quantum correlations in infinite-dimensional systems

TL;DR

This paper extends key quantum correlation measures to infinite-dimensional systems, establishing their properties and continuity, and applies these results to quantum channels and recovery channels in infinite dimensions.

Contribution

It introduces faithful extensions of quantum correlation measures to infinite dimensions and proves their lower semicontinuity and continuity properties.

Findings

Conditional mutual information is uniquely lower semicontinuous in infinite dimensions.

Most generalized quantum correlation measures are globally lower semicontinuous.

Existence of Fawzi-Renner recovery channels for infinite-dimensional states.

Abstract

Several important measures of quantum correlations of a state of a finite-dimensional composite system are defined as linear combinations of marginal entropies of this state. This paper is devoted to the infinite-dimensional generalizations of such quantities and to the analysis of their properties. We introduce the notion of faithful extension of a linear combination of marginal entropies and consider several concrete examples starting with the quantum mutual information and the quantum conditional entropy. Then we show that the conditional mutual information can be uniquely defined as a lower semicontinuous function on the set of all states of a tripartite infinite-dimensional system possessing all the basic properties valid in finite dimensions. Infinite-dimensional generalizations of some other measures of quantum correlations in multipartite quantum systems are also considered. It is shown that almost all of these generalized measures are globally lower semicontinuous and possess local continuity properties which essentially simplify their use in analysis of quantum systems. In the second part of the paper we consider applications of the general results of its first part, in particular, to the theory of infinite-dimensional quantum channels and their capacities. We also show the existence of the Fawzi-Renner recovery channel reproducing marginal states for all tripartite states (including states with infinite marginal entropies) starting with the corresponding finite-dimensional result.