2025-10-17 理化学研究所
図1 三者間の量子もつれの概念図
（a）のように全系をA・B・Cに3分割した場合と、（b）のように全系をA・B・C・Dに4分割した上でABCを取り出した場合とでは、異なる三者間の量子もつれ構造が現れる。それは、Dを仲介した量子もつれエネルギー（エンタングルメントハミルトニアン、後述）がA・B・Cのつながりに加わるためである。
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.riken.jp/press/2025/20251017_1/index.html
- https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/9hx7-pzxw
条件付き相互情報量と量子マルコフ構造の任意温度におけるクラスタリング Clustering of Conditional Mutual Information and Quantum Markov Structure at Arbitrary Temperatures
Tomotaka Kuwahara
Physical Review X Published: 16 October, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/9hx7-pzxw
Abstract
Recent investigations have unveiled exotic quantum phases that elude characterization by simple bipartite correlation functions. In these phases, long-range entanglement arising from tripartite correlations plays a central role. Consequently, the study of multipartite correlations has become a focal point in modern physics. Here, conditional mutual information (CMI) is one of the most well-established information-theoretic measures, adept at encapsulating the essence of various exotic phases, including topologically ordered ones. Within the realm of quantum many-body physics, it has been a long-sought goal to establish a quantum analog to the Hammersley-Clifford theorem that bridges the two concepts of the Gibbs state and the Markov network. This theorem posits that the correlation length of CMI remains short-range across all thermal equilibrium quantum phases. In this work, we demonstrate that CMI exhibits exponential decay with respect to distance, with its correlation length increasing polynomially with respect to the inverse temperature. While this clustering theorem has previously been believed to hold for high temperatures devoid of thermal phase transitions, it has remained elusive at low temperatures, where genuine long-range entanglement is corroborated to exist by the quantum topological order. Our findings unveil that, even at low temperatures, a broad class of tripartite entanglement cannot manifest in the long-range regime. To achieve the proof, we establish a comprehensive formalism for analyzing the locality of effective Hamiltonians on subsystems, commonly known as the “entanglement Hamiltonian” or “Hamiltonian of mean force.” As one outcome of our analyses, we enhance the prior clustering theorem concerning bipartite entanglement. In essence, we investigate genuine bipartite entanglement that extends beyond the limitations of the positive-partial-transpose class.
