Classical and quantum parts of conditional mutual information for open quantum systems

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the classical, classical-quantum, and quantum components of conditional mutual information in open quantum systems, providing new criteria and generalizations for their identification and relation to quantum correlations.

Contribution

It introduces generalized conditions for identifying classical and quantum parts of conditional mutual information, extending existing theorems to multipartite open quantum systems.

Findings

Derived conditions for classical part using no-local-broadcasting theorem.

Extended quantum discord and no-unilocal-broadcasting to multipartite systems.

Established a generalized Koashi-Winter-type monogamy relation for conditional mutual information.

Abstract

We study the classical, classical-quantum, and quantum parts of conditional mutual information in the ``system-environment-ancilla'' setting of open quantum systems. We perform the separation of conditional mutual information by generalizing the classification of correlations of quantum states. The condition for identifying the classical part of conditional mutual information is given by adapting the no-local-broadcasting theorem to this setting, while the condition for classical-quantum part of conditional mutual information is obtained by considering the multipartite quantum discord and the no-unilocal-broadcasting theorem. For the quantum part of conditional mutual information, we further generalize the characterization of entanglement by quantum discord of state extensions to the multipatite setting, so as to derive a generalized Koashi-Winter-type monogamy equality for conditional mutual information. Our results have explicit dependence on the extensions of environment, which are useful for studying different environmental contributions to the quantum non-Markovianity of open quantum systems.