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Correlation function and mutual information

Quantum Physics 2015-05-19 v3

Abstract

Correlation function and mutual information are two powerful tools to characterize the correlations in a quantum state of a composite system, widely used in many-body physics and in quantum information science, respectively. We find that these two tools may give different conclusions about the order of the degrees of correlation in two specific two-qubit states. This result implies that the orderings of bipartite quantum states according to the degrees of correlation depend on which correlation measure we adopt.

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@article{arxiv.1005.5064,
  title  = {Correlation function and mutual information},
  author = {R. X. Dong and D. L. Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.5064},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4.2 pages, 4 figures

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