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Entanglement, discord, and the power of quantum computation

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109 (Australia)
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.
OSTI ID:
21529023
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 83; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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