Quantum discord is Bohr's notion of non-mechanical disturbance introduced to counter the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.05.002zbMATH Open1348.81155arXiv1208.4964OpenAlexW3124232252MaRDI QIDQ336203FDOQ336203

Authors: H. M. Wiseman 

Publication date: 10 November 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By rigorously formalizing the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) argument, and Bohr's reply, one can appreciate that both arguments were technically correct. Their opposed conclusions about the completeness of quantum mechanics hinged upon an explicit difference in their criteria for when a measurement on Alice's system can be regarded as not disturbing Bob's system. The EPR criteria allow their conclusion (incompletness) to be reached by establishing the physical reality of just a single observable $q$ (not a conjugate pair $q$ and $p$), but I show that Bohr's definition of disturbance prevents the EPR chain of reasoning from establishing even this. Moreover, I show that Bohr's definition is intimately related to the asymmetric concept of quantum discord from quantum information theory: if and only if the joint state has no Alice-discord, she can measure any observable without disturbing (in Bohr's sense) Bob's system. Discord can be present even when systems are unentangled, and this has implications for our understanding of the historical development of notions of quantum nonlocality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4964

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zbMATH Keywords

complementarityentanglementquantum discordquantum informationcompletenessEinstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

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