Toward computability of trace distance discord

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DOI10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/013038zbMATH Open1451.81106arXiv1304.6879OpenAlexW3101394480WikidataQ59472499 ScholiaQ59472499MaRDI QIDQ3387982FDOQ3387982


Authors: Francesco Ciccarello, Tommaso Tufarelli, V. Giovannetti Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 January 2021

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

Abstract: It is known that a reliable geometric quantifier of discord-like correlations can be built by employing the so-called trace distance. This is used to measure how far the state under investigation is from the closest "classical-quantum" one. To date, the explicit calculation of this indicator for two qubits was accomplished only for states such that the reduced density matrix of the measured party is maximally mixed, a class that includes Bell-diagonal states. Here, we first reduce the required optimization for a general two-qubit state to the minimization of an explicit two-variable function. Using this framework, we show next that the minimum can be analytically worked out in a number of relevant cases including quantum-classical and X states. This provides an explicit and compact expression for the trace distance discord of an arbitrary state belonging to either of these important classes of density matrices.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6879




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