by
Prof.Caslav Brukner(Institut for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information)
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Europe/Stockholm
FD51 (OBS!)
FD51 (OBS!)
Description
Quantum discord characterizes "non-classicality" 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. I will show give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of non-zero quantum discord for any dimensional bipartite states. This condition is easily experimentally implementable. Based on this, I will give a geometrical way of quantifying quantum discord. For two qubits this results in a closed form of expression for discord. I will 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.
