Macroscopic theory of multipartite correlations in permutation-invariant open quantum systems.

Abstract

Information-theoretic quantities have received significant attention as system-independent measures of correlations in many-body quantum systems, e.g., as universal order parameters of synchronization. In this work, we present a method to determine the macroscopic behavior of the steady-state multipartite mutual information between N interacting units undergoing Markovian evolution that is invariant under unit permutations. Using this approach, we extend a conclusion previously drawn for classical systems that either the extensive scaling of mutual information is not possible for systems relaxing to fixed points of the mean-field dynamics, or such scaling is not robust to perturbations of system dynamics. In contrast, robust extensive scaling occurs for a system relaxing to time-dependent attractors, e.g., limit cycles. We illustrate the applicability of our method on the driven-dissipative Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model.