In this paper, two conjectures which were proposed in Luo et al (2010 Phys. Rev. A 82 052122 ) on the correlations in a bipartite state ρ AB are studied. If the mutual information I (ρ AB ) between two quantum systems A and B before any measurement is considered as the total amount of correlations in the state ρ AB , then it can be separated into two parts: classical correlations and quantum correlations. The so-called classical correlations C (ρ AB ) in the state ρ AB are defined by the maximizing mutual information between two quantum systems A and B after von Neumann measurements on system B . We show that it is upper bounded by the von Neumann entropies of both subsystems A and B , which answered the conjecture on the classical correlation. If the quantum correlations Q (ρ AB ) in the state ρ AB are defined by Q (ρ AB ) = I (ρ AB ) − C (ρ AB ), we also show that it is upper bounded by the von Neumann entropy of subsystem B . It is also found that Q (ρ AB ) is upper bounded by the von Neumann entropy of subsystem A for a class of states.
In this paper, two conjectures which were proposed in [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{82}, 052122(2010)] on the correlations in a bipartite state
ρAB are studied. If the mutual information $I\Pa{\rho^{AB}}$ between two quantum systems
A and
B before any measurement is considered as the total amount of correlations in the state
ρAB, then it can be separated into two parts: classical correlations and quantum correlations. The so-called classical correlations $C\Pa{\rho^{AB}}$ in the state
ρAB, defined by the maximizing mutual information between two quantum systems
A and
B after von Neumann measurements on system
B, we show that it is upper bounded by the von Neumann entropies of both subsystems
A and
B, this answered the conjecture on the classical correlation. If the quantum correlations $Q\Pa{\rho^{AB}}$ in the state
ρAB is defined by $Q\Pa{\rho^{AB}}= I\Pa{\rho^{AB}} - C\Pa{\rho^{AB}}$, we show also that it is upper bounded by the von Neumann entropy of subsystem
B. It is also obtained that $Q\Pa{\rho^{AB}}$ is upper bounded by the von Neumann entropy of subsystem
A for a class of states.
On the premises that total correlations in a bipartite quantum state are measured by the quantum mutual information, and that separation of total correlations into quantum and classical parts satisfies an intuitive dominance relation, we examine to what extent various entropic entanglement measures, such as the distillable entanglement, the relative entropy entanglement, the squashed entanglement, the entanglement cost, and the entanglement of formation, can be regarded as consistent measures of quantum correlations. We illustrate that the entanglement of formation often overestimates quantum correlations and thus is too big to be a genuine measure of quantum correlations. This indicates that the entanglement of formation does not quantify the quantum correlations intrinsic to a quantum state, but rather characterizes the pure entanglement needed to build the quantum state via local operations and classical communication. Furthermore, it has the consequence that, if the additive conjecture for the entanglement of formation is true (as is widely believed), then the entanglement cost, which is an operationally defined measure of entanglement with significant physical meaning, cannot be a consistent measure of quantum correlations in the sense that it may exceed total correlations. Alternatively, if the entanglement cost is dominated by total correlations, as our intuition suggests, then we can immediately disprove the additive conjecture. Both scenarios have their counterintuitive and appealing aspects, and a natural challenge arising in this context is to prove or disprove that the entanglement cost is dominated by the quantum mutual information.
The entanglement of a pure bipartite state is uniquely measured by the von-Neumann entropy of its reduced density matrices. Though it cannot specify all the non-local characteristics of pure entangled states. It was proven that for every possible value of entanglement of a bipartite system, there exists an infinite number of equally entangled pure states, not comparable(satisfies Nielsen’s criteria) to each other. In this work, we investigate other correlation measures of pure bipartite states that are able to differentiate the quantum correlations of the states with entropy of entanglement. In Schmidt rank 3, we consider the whole set of states having same entanglement and compare how minutely such states can be distinguished by other correlation measures. Then for different values of entanglement we compare the sets of states belonging to the same entanglement and also investigate the graphs of different correlation measures. We extend our search to Schmidt rank 4 and 5 also.