Entanglement, discord, and the power of quantum computation

Aharon Brodutch; Daniel R. Terno

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.83.010301

Entanglement, discord, and the power of quantum computation

Aharon Brodutch^*, Daniel R. Terno

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Abstract

We show that the ability to create entanglement is necessary for execution of bipartite quantum gates even when they are applied to unentangled states and create no entanglement. Starting with a simple example we demonstrate that to execute such a gate bilocally the local operations and classical communications (LOCC) should be supplemented by shared entanglement. Our results point to the changes in quantum discord, which is a measure of quantumness of correlations even in the absence of entanglement, as the indicator of failure of a LOCC implementation of the gates.

Original language	English
Article number	010301
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume	83
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.010301
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2011

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Brodutch A and Terno DR. Physical review A. Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 83(1),010301(R), 2011. Copyright (2011) by the American Physical Society. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.010301.

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