Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 60 4 iv Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
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 isThe last inequality is Strong subadditivity of Von Neumann entropy, or nonnegativity of quantum conditional mutual information. HenceThis 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.