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In this work, we present a geometrical formulation of quantum thermodynamics based on contact geometry and principal fiber bundles. The quantum thermodynamic state space is modeled as a contact manifold, with equilibrium Gibbs states…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Álvaro Tejero , Martín de la Rosa

We study the discrimination of N mixed quantum states in an optimal measurement that maximizes the probability of correct results while the probability of inconclusive results is fixed at a given value. After considering the discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ulrike Herzog

We study the level surfaces of quantum discord for a class of two-qubit states with parallel nonzero Bloch vectors. The dynamic behavior of quantum discord under decoherence is investigated. It is shown that a class of X states has sudden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 Bo Li , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

We discuss how to calculate genuine multipartite quantum and classical correlations in symmetric, spatially invariant, mixed $n$-qubit density matrices. We show that the existence of symmetries greatly reduces the amount of free parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Gian Luca Giorgi , Steve Campbell

We establish the equivalence between the loss of coherence due to mixing in a quantum system and the loss of information after performing a projective measurement. Subsequently, it is demonstrated that the quantum discord, a measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Ashutosh K. Goswami , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum discord, a key indicator of non-classical correlations in bipartite systems, has been recently extended to multipartite scenarios [Phys. Rev. Lett. 2020, 124:110401]. We present exact analytic formulas for the quantum discord of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jianming Zhou , Xiaoli Hu , Honglian Zhang , Naihuan Jing

We use quantum discord to characterize the correlations present in the quantum computational model DQC1, introduced by Knill and Laflamme [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5672 (1998)]. The model involves a collection of qubits in the completely mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Animesh Datta , Anil Shaji , Carlton M. Caves

We have analytically calculated the quantum discord for a system composed of spin-$j$ and spin-1/2 subsystems possessing SU(2) symmetry. We have compared our results with the quantum discord of states having similar symmetries and seen that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 B. Çakmak , Z. Gedik

We introduce a measurement-based method for verifying quantum discord of any bipartite quantum system. We show that by performing an informationally complete POVM (IC-POVM) on one subsystem and checking the commutativity of the conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 Saleh Rahimi-Keshari , Carlton M. Caves , Timothy C. Ralph

When a quantum system is divided into two local subsystems, measurements on the two subsystems can exhibit correlations beyond those possible in a classical joint probability distribution; these are partially explained by entanglement, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Aaron Szasz

We extend the definition of quantum discord as a quantifier of nonClassical correlations in a quantum state to the case where weak measurements are performed on subsystem $A$ of a bipartite system $AB$. The properties of weak discord are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Lekshmi S , N Shaji , Anil Shaji

The common use in literature of orthogonal measurements in obtaining quantum discord for two-qubit states is discussed and compared with more general measurements. We prove the optimality of orthogonal measurements for rank 2 states. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 Fernando Galve , Gianluca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

Quantum discord plays a pragmatic role in analyzing nonclassical feature of quantum correlations beyond entanglement. It is used in several information processing protocols which lacks sufficient amount of entanglement to be used as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Kaushiki Mukherjee , Sumana Karmakar , Biswajit Paul , Debasis Sarkar

We consider the quantum discord in a two-particle spin-1/2 system (dimer) governed by the standard multiple quantum (MQ) Hamiltonian and reveal the relation between the discord and the intensity of the second-order MQ coherence. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. I. Kuznetsova , A. I. Zenchuk

We focus our attention on two-qubit mixed states as initial states, and apply the geometric measure of quantum discord to investigate quantum discord properties in the background of a Schwarzschild black hole under phase damping, phase flip…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yuxuan Xiong , Zhiling Pi , Tinggui Zhang , Xiaofen Huang

We evaluate a Gaussian entanglement measure for a symmetric two-mode Gaussian state of the quantum electromagnetic field in terms of its Bures distance to the set of all separable Gaussian states. The required minimization procedure was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paulina Marian , Tudor A. Marian

Quantum entanglement between several particles is essential for applications like quantum metrology or quantum cryptography, but it is also central for foundational phenomena like quantum non-locality. This leads to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Otfried Gühne

We introduce a class of generalized geometric measures of entanglement. For pure quantum states of $N$ elementary subsystems, they are defined as the distances from the sets of $K$-separable states ($K=2,...,N$). The entire set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-02 M. Blasone , F. Dell'Anno , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati

We address the nonGaussianity (nG) of states obtained by weakly perturbing a Gaussian state and investigate the relationships with quantum estimation. For classical perturbations, i.e. perturbations to eigenvalues, we found that nG of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Marco G. Genoni , Paolo Giorda , Matteo G. A. Paris

The thesis includes the original results of our articles [30, 37, 40, 42, 51, 53, 75]. A method is developed to compute analytically entanglement measures of three-qubit pure states. Owing to it closed-form expressions are presented for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Levon Tamaryan