Quantum correlations from classically correlated states

G. Bellomo, A.P. Majtey, A.R. Plastino and A. Plastino

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 405, issue C, 260-266

Abstract: Consider a bipartite quantum system with at least one of its two components being itself a composite system. By tracing over part of one (or both) of these two subsystems it is possible to obtain a reduced (separable) state that exhibits quantum correlations even if the original state of the full system is endowed only with classical correlations. This effect, first pointed out by Li and Luo in (2008), is of considerable interest because there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that quantum correlations in non-entangled, mixed states may constitute a useful resource to implement non trivial information related tasks. Here we conduct a systematic exploration of the aforementioned effect for particular families of states of quantum systems of low dimensionality (three qubits states). In order to assess the non-classicality of the correlations of the reduced states we use an indicator of quantum correlations based upon the state disturbances generated by the measurement of local observables. We show, for a three-qubit system, that there exists a relationship between the classical mutual information of the original classically correlated states and the maximum quantum correlation exhibited by the reduced states.

Keywords: Quantum correlations; Quantum discord; Mutual information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.022

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