Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Torvinen, Juha, Keski-Vakkuri, Esko, Pranzini, Nicola
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06848
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915990014525440
author Torvinen, Juha
Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
Pranzini, Nicola
author_facet Torvinen, Juha
Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
Pranzini, Nicola
contents According to Quantum Darwinism, system-environment interactions both einselect particular system properties and encode them redundantly in many independent subsets of the environment, called fragments. This redundancy implies that an observer can recover the einselected information by accessing just one such fragment. However, the protocol by which such reconstruction should occur is often left unspecified. Considering a system $Γ$ interacting with a multipartite environment $Ξ$, we investigate whether, and under what conditions, the einselected state of $Γ$ can be recovered from environmental fragments using the Petz recovery map. We show that the fidelity between the system's initial state and the state reconstructed via Petz recovery develops a plateau as a function of the fragment size. Our results are supported by both analytical arguments and numerical simulations of large but tractable models.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2605_06848
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Quantum Darwinism and the quality of Petz recovery
Torvinen, Juha
Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
Pranzini, Nicola
Quantum Physics
According to Quantum Darwinism, system-environment interactions both einselect particular system properties and encode them redundantly in many independent subsets of the environment, called fragments. This redundancy implies that an observer can recover the einselected information by accessing just one such fragment. However, the protocol by which such reconstruction should occur is often left unspecified. Considering a system $Γ$ interacting with a multipartite environment $Ξ$, we investigate whether, and under what conditions, the einselected state of $Γ$ can be recovered from environmental fragments using the Petz recovery map. We show that the fidelity between the system's initial state and the state reconstructed via Petz recovery develops a plateau as a function of the fragment size. Our results are supported by both analytical arguments and numerical simulations of large but tractable models.
title Quantum Darwinism and the quality of Petz recovery
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06848