Discord, quantum knowledge and private communications

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53412-1_11MaRDI QIDQ5358014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mile Gu, Stefano Pirandola

Publication date 19 September 2017

Published in Quantum Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04340

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Abstract: In this brief review, we discuss the role that quantum correlations, as quantified by quantum discord, play in two interesting settings. The first one is discerning which unitaries have been applied on a quantum system, by taking advantage of knowledge regarding its initial configuration. Here discord captures the "quantum" component of this knowledge, useful only when we have access to a quantum memory. In particular, discord can be used to detect whether an untrusted party has certain quantum capabilities. The second setting is quantum cryptography. Here discord represents an important resource for trusted-noise quantum key distribution and also provides a general upper bound for the optimal secret key rates that are achievable by ideal protocols. In particular, the (two-way assisted) secret key capacity of a lossy bosonic channel exactly coincides with the maximum discord that can be distributed between the remote parties at the two ends of the channel.

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