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An outstanding problem in quantum computing is the calculation of entanglement, for which no closed-form algorithm exists. Here we solve that problem, and demonstrate the utility of a quantum neural computer, by showing, in simulation, that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. C. Behrman , V. Chandrashekar , Z. Wang , C. K. Belur , J. E. Steck , S. R. Skinner

Is the universe computable? If yes, is it computationally a polynomial place? In standard quantum mechanics, which permits infinite parallelism and the infinitely precise specification of states, a negative answer to both questions is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Srikanth

We propose a modified metric based on the Hilbert-Schmidt norm and adopt it to define a rescaled version of the geometric measure of quantum discord. Such a measure is found not to suffer from the pathological dependence on state purity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Tommaso Tufarelli , Tom MacLean , Davide Girolami , Ruggero Vasile , Gerardo Adesso

Recent research has demonstrated that quantum computers can solve certain types of problems substantially faster than the known classical algorithms. These problems include factoring integers and certain physics simulations. Practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Wojciech H. Zurek

Quantum information theory is plagued by the problem of regularisations, which require the evaluation of formidable asymptotic quantities. This makes it computationally intractable to gain a precise quantitative understanding of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ludovico Lami , Francesco Anna Mele , Bartosz Regula

It is generally believed that entanglement is essential for quantum computing. We present here a few simple examples in which quantum computing without entanglement is better than anything classically achievable, in terms of the reliability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eli Biham , Gilles Brassard , Dan Kenigsberg , Tal Mor

Quantum discord is an important measure of quantum correlations that can serve as a resource for certain types of quantum information processing. \ Like entanglement, discord is subject to destruction by external noise. The routes by which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 Nga T. T. Nguyen , Robert Joynt

Recently developed quantum algorithms suggest that quantum computers can solve certain problems and perform certain tasks more efficiently than conventional computers. Among other reasons, this is due to the possibility of creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rolando D. Somma

There has been an increasing interest in exploring quantities associated with quantum information at colliders. We perform a detailed analysis describing how to measure the quantum discord in the top anti-top quantum state at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Tao Han , Matthew Low , Navin McGinnis , Shufang Su

We shed new light on entanglement measures in multipartite quantum systems by taking a computational-complexity approach toward quantifying quantum entanglement with two familiar notions--approximability and distinguishability. Built upon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Quantum computation with quantum data that can traverse closed timelike curves represents a new physical model of computation. We argue that a model of quantum computation in the presence of closed timelike curves can be formulated which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dave Bacon

The problem of determining whether a given quantum state is entangled lies at the heart of quantum information processing, which is known to be an NP-hard problem in general. Despite the proposed many methods such as the positive partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Sirui Lu , Shilin Huang , Keren Li , Jun Li , Jianxin Chen , Dawei Lu , Zhengfeng Ji , Yi Shen , Duanlu Zhou , Bei Zeng

The number of steps required in order to maximize a Bell inequality for arbitrary number of qubits is shown to grow exponentially with either the number of steps and the number of parties involved. The proof that the optimization of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 J. Batle , C. H. Raymond Ooi

We solve the quantum discord completely as an optimization of certain one variable function for arbitrary two qubit X state. Exact solutions of the quantum discord are obtained for several nontrivial regions of the five parametric space for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Naihuan Jing , Bing Yu

The quantum correlations, including entanglement and discord with its geometric measure, and classical correlation are studied for a bipartite partition of a open or closed quantum system. It is found that the purity of the initial state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Abdel-Baset A. Mohamed

In this didactic article we explore the concept of quantum correlations beyond entanglement. We begin by introducing and motivating the classically correlated states and then showing how to quantify the quantum correlations using an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Gerardo Adesso , Marco Cianciaruso , Thomas R. Bromley

Like entanglement, quantum discord quantifies the quantum correlations. Unlike entanglement, whose detection is extremely difficult, the quantum discord of an arbitrary bipartite state allows itself to be detected perfectly by a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 Sixia Yu , Chengjie Zhang , Qing Chen , C. H. Oh

The quantumness of a generic state is the resource of many applications in quantum information theory and it is interesting to survey the measures which are able to detect its trace in the properties of the state. In this work we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Javad Behdani , Seyed Javad Akhtarshenas , Mohsen Sarbishaei

Composite quantum systems can be in generic states characterized not only by entanglement, but also by more general quantum correlations. The interplay between these two signatures of nonclassicality is still not completely understood. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Davide Girolami , Gerardo Adesso

A contemporary technological milestone is to build a quantum device performing a computational task beyond the capability of any classical computer, an achievement known as quantum adversarial advantage. In what ways can the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Jacob D. Biamonte , Mauro E. S. Morales , Dax Enshan Koh