2000/12/12 by Borivoje Dakić, Borivoje Dakic, Vlatko Vedral +4 · 39 citations
Computer Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Computer science #Medicine #Physical medicine and rehabilitation #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum algorithm #Quantum capacity #Quantum computer #Quantum discord #Quantum dynamics #Quantum entanglement #Quantum information #Quantum mechanics #Quantum network #Quantum process #Qubit #Statistical physics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.105.190502
published in 交通・物流部門大会講演論文集 2000(9), 141-144 (American Physical Society) · minor changes, published version
openalex publication_date 2000/12/12 · arxiv created 2010/11/03 · arxiv updated 2010/11/04 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Quantum discord characterizes "nonclassicality" of correlations in quantum mechanics. It has been proposed as the key resource present in certain quantum communication tasks and quantum computational models without containing much entanglement. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonzero quantum discord for any dimensional bipartite states. This condition is easily experimentally implementable. Based on this, we propose a geometrical way of quantifying quantum discord. For two qubits this results in a closed form of expression for discord. We apply our results to the model of deterministic quantum computation with one qubit, showing that quantum discord is unlikely to be the reason behind its speedup.