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Title: Entanglement and discord of the superposition of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 BT Road, Kolkata (India)

We calculate the analytic expression for geometric measure of entanglement for arbitrary superposition of two N-qubit canonical orthonormal Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states and the same for two W states. In the course of characterizing all kinds of nonclassical correlations, an explicit formula for quantum discord (via relative entropy) for the former class of states has been presented. Contrary to the GHZ state, the closest separable state to the W state is not classical. Therefore, in this case, the discord is different from the relative entropy of entanglement. We conjecture that the discord for the N-qubit W state is log{sub 2}N.

OSTI ID:
21537397
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.032301; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English