Quantum information loss

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05535v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:29:24 GMT
• Title: Quantum information loss
• Abstract summary: measure of information loss for any quantum process modeled by a prepare-evolve-measure scenario.<n>We show that the vanishing of information loss with respect to all states supported on a fixed codespace $mathcalH_textcode$ is equivalent to a condition we term emphuniversal pristineness.
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• Abstract: We introduce a measure of information loss for any quantum process that may be modeled by a prepare-evolve-measure scenario: Alice prepares an ensemble of states that gets sent via a quantum channel to Bob, who then measures the output. As a quantum channel models open system dynamics, our measure of information loss quantifies Bob's inability to retrodict with certainty which state Alice sent through the channel. By minimizing this measure over all possible pure state ensemble decompositions of a fixed state $ρ$, and over all POVMs on the output of a channel $\mathcal{E}$, we arrive at an intrinsic notion of information loss for any state-channel pair $(ρ,\mathcal{E})$. We show that the vanishing of information loss with respect to all states supported on a fixed codespace $\mathcal{H}_{\text{code}}$ is equivalent to a condition we term \emph{universal pristineness}, which ensures that orthogonal pure states in $\mathcal{H}_{\text{code}}$ get sent via the channel $\mathcal{E}$ to possibly mixed states whose supports are orthogonal. Moreover, we prove universal pristineness is equivalent to the Knill-Laflamme conditions in quantum error correction, which are necessary and sufficient for the existence of a perfect recovery channel for all states supported on $\mathcal{H}_{\text{code}}$. As an application, we apply our framework to the Hayden-Preskill model of black hole evaporation, demonstrating that the evaporation channel becomes asymptotically universally pristine, thereby providing a purely channel-theoretic formulation of Page-time information retrieval.

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