Take a Stinespring dilation of the local quantum channel and define . Tracing out gives the prescribed output, with . An isometry preserves the nonzero eigenvalues of a density operator; therefore , , and .
Consequently . The loss of quantum mutual information is
The last inequality is Strong subadditivity of Von Neumann entropy, or nonnegativity of quantum conditional mutual information. Hence
This mutual-information loss as conditional mutual information shows exactly which correlations are discarded into the environment. No purity assumption on the original state is needed.