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Volume 108, Number 1, October 2014
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Article Number | 10003 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/108/10003 | |
Published online | 02 October 2014 |
Overcoming ambiguities in classical and quantum correlation measures
1 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - Rua Cristo rei 19, Vila Becker, 85902-490, Toledo, PR, Brazil
2 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense - Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, Gragoatá, 24210-346, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
(a) fagner@if.uff.br
(b) amen@if.uff.br
(c) tro@if.uff.br
(d) msarandy@if.uff.br
Received: 14 August 2014
Accepted: 15 September 2014
We identify ambiguities in the available frameworks for defining quantum, classical, and total correlations as measured by discord-like quantifiers. More specifically, we determine situations for which either classical or quantum correlations are not uniquely defined due to degeneracies arising from the optimization procedure over the state space. In order to remove such degeneracies, we introduce a general approach where correlations are independently defined, escaping therefore from a degenerate subspace. As an illustration, we analyze the trace-norm geometric quantum discord for two-qubit Bell-diagonal states.
PACS: 03.65.Ud – Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.) / 03.67.Mn – Entanglement measures, witnesses, and other characterizations
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