2010/08/31 by D. Cavalcanti, L. Aolita, S. Boixo +3
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.83.032324
published as Phys. Rev. A 83, 032324 (2011) · v4: 5 pages, 1 fig. Refs added, text improved. Main results unchanged. See arXiv:1008.4135v2 for a related work. v5: close to the published version
arxiv created 2011/04/01 · arxiv updated 2011/04/04
Quantum discord quantifies non-classical correlations going beyond the standard classification of quantum states into entangled and unentangled ones. Although it has received considerable attention, it still lacks any precise interpretation in terms of some protocol in which quantum features are relevant. Here we give quantum discord its first operational meaning in terms of entanglement consumption in an extended quantum state merging protocol. We further relate the asymmetry of quantum discord with the performance imbalance in quantum state merging and dense coding.