Bosonic Quantum Conditional Mutual Information and Bose-Einstein Condensation
quant-ph, nlin.SI
Submitted: 2026-10-12
Updated: 2026-10-12
Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The gist: This article aims to introduce the bosonic asymmetric quantum conditional mutual information (QCMI), I B(A; BC), as a rigorously defined information-theoretic quantity for continuous-variable
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Abstract
This article aims to introduce the bosonic asymmetric quantum conditional mutual information (QCMI), I B(A; BC), as a rigorously defined information-theoretic quantity for continuous-variable (bosonic) systems. After defining I B(A; BC) through quantum instruments on infinite-dimensional Fock spaces, we prove that Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) induces a logarithmic divergence I B(A; BC) at least α 2 (N 0 C+1), which further establishes I B(A; BC) as a quantum-information order parameter for BEC with power-law scaling near the critical point. We provide the complete five-step proof of this result, connecting measurement back-action, off-diagonal long-range order, and Jensen's inequality. In the condensed phase, the effective causal propagation velocity is set by the Bogoliubov sound speed c s in the long-wavelength limit, and vanishes continuously at the superfluid--Mott-insulator transition. Applications to composite bosons, the BEC--BCS crossover, and a quantum-gas-microscope measurement protocol are presented. Finally, we demonstrate how the reduced bosonic QCMI serves as a finite-size scaling probe analogous to the Binder cumulant.
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