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Spontaneous emission can locally create quantum discord out of classical correlations

Quantum Physics 2014-02-12 v2

Abstract

We consider local time evolution given by spontaneous emission in the system of independent two-level atoms. It is shown that all classically correlated initial states are driven into the states with transient non-zero quantum discord. Thus local creation of genuine quantum correlations can be observed in a simple physical system of non-interacting atoms which are not completely isolated from the environment.

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@article{arxiv.1306.0130,
  title  = {Spontaneous emission can locally create quantum discord out of classical correlations},
  author = {M. Gwozdz and L. Jakobczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0130},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published version. Quantum Inf. Process. 2013