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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Measure of classical correlation in a two-qubit state

Jie-Hui Huang, Shi-Yao Zhu

Published Mar 10, 2008• 3 citations
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Abstract

We suggest a measure of classical correlation in a two-qubit state, which is computable and implementable in experiments. As examples, we investigate the classical and quantum correlations in the Werner states and in a group of particular states mixed with three parts: an entangled, a separable and a product one. It is shown that the quantum correlation in a two-qubit state cannot exceed the classical correlation in the same state.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/41/12/125301

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