Transient Information Partition in Coherent Exciton-Phonon-Photon Dynamics

Abstract

We study transient information partition in a coherent exciton-phonon-photon system using subsystem-resolved quantum mutual information (QMI). By employing a model with excitonic, phononic, and photonic degrees of freedom, we analyze the dynamics in the $J$-$ν$ plane, where $J$ characterizes excitonic delocalization and $ν$ denotes the exciton-phonon coupling strength. By comparing time-averaged QMI maps with the absorbed photon number, we show that optical activity alone does not determine the character of the light-induced transient state. The exciton-centered information partition identifies a broad crossover between polariton-like and polaron-like transient responses, depending on whether excitonic information is mainly shared with the photon or phonon subsystem. In contrast, the phonon-centered partition reveals a sharper boundary-adjacent redistribution ridge near the boundary between the zero- and one-exciton ground-state sectors. This ridge is absent from both the ground-state sector map and the photon-absorption map, indicating that it is neither a static sector boundary nor an enhancement of optical absorption. A variational strength-function analysis connects the ridge to a region-II-like finite-energy polaronic excitation whose dominant spectral weight lies near the one-phonon energy, and thus the ridge represents a hidden transient correlation structure in which a limited amount of phonon-related information is preferentially shared with the photon subsystem before being predominantly allocated to exciton-phonon dressing. These results show that QMI-based information partition provides a correlation-based framework for characterizing coherent light-induced transient states in which optical and material degrees of freedom jointly participate quantum mechanically.