Quantum Discord and Maxwell's Demons
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Quantum discord was proposed as an information theoretic measure of the ``quantumness'' of correlations. I show that discord determines the difference between the efficiency of quantum and classical Maxwell's demons in extracting work from collections of correlated quantum systems.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0202123,
title = {Quantum Discord and Maxwell's Demons},
author = {Wojciech Hubert Zurek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0202123},
year = {2007}
}