The mutual information in quantum information systems is defined by using the quantum compound state, and its fundamental properties with an application are studied.
The study of mutual entropy (information) and capacity in classica l system was extensively done after Shannon by several authors like Kolmogor ov and Gelfand. In quantum systems, there have been several definitions of t he mutual entropy for classical input and quantum output. In 1983, the autho r defined the fully quantum mechanical mutual entropy by means of the relati ve entropy of Umegaki, and he extended it to general quantum systems by the relative entropy of Araki and Uhlmann. When the author introduced the quantu m mutual entropy, he did not indicate that it contains other definitions of the mutual entropy including classical one, so that there exist several misu nderstandings for the use of the mutual entropy (information) to compute the capacity of quantum channels. Therefore in this note we point out that our quantum mutual entropy generalizes others and where the m isuse occurs.
For any [Formula: see text]-partite state [Formula: see text], we define its quantum mutual information matrix as an [Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text] matrix whose [Formula: see text]-entry is given by quantum mutual information [Formula: see text]. Although each entry of quantum mutual information matrix, like its classical counterpart, is also used to measure bipartite correlations, the similarity ends here: quantum mutual information matrices are not always positive semidefinite even for collections of up to 3-partite states. In this work, we define the genuine n-partite mutual information which can be easily calculated. This definition is symmetric, nonnegative, bounded and more accurate for measuring multipartite states.
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