Quantum Partial Information Decomposition

Abstract

The Partial Information Decomposition (PID) takes one step beyond Shannon's theory in decomposing the information two variables $A,B$ possess about a third variable $T$ into distinct parts: unique, shared (or redundant) and synergistic information. Here we show how these concepts can be defined in a quantum setting. We apply a quantum PID to scrambling in quantum many-body systems, for which a quantum-theoretic description has been proven productive. Unique information in particular provides a finer description of scrambling than does the so-called tri-information.