Defining Unique, Redundant, and Synergistic Quantum Information

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07880v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:33:18 GMT
• Title: Defining Unique, Redundant, and Synergistic Quantum Information
• Abstract summary: We show that unique information plays the central role in quantum error correction codes.<n>In a different application of our PID, we show that redundant quantum information is the crucial feature of the decoherence mechanism.
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• Abstract: We extend the classical ideas of the Partial Information Decomposition (PID) to the quantum domain and quantify unique, redundant, and synergistic quantum information. We show that unique information plays the central role in quantum error correction codes: any erasure-correctable subset of encoding qubits must contain zero unique information. Synergistic information between two disjoint subsets of encoding qubits appears when a logical operation is supported on the whole set but not on the subsets separately. In a different application of our PID, we show that redundant quantum information is the crucial feature of the decoherence mechanism proposed by Zurek \textit{et al.} to explain how the classical world emerges out of the quantum world.

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