Quantum Correlations in Multipartite Quantum Systems

Defining a robust measure of quantum correlation for multipartite states is an unresolved and challenging problem. Existing measures of quantum correlation are either not scalable or do not satisfy all the accepted properties of a measure of quantum correlation. We introduce a novel geometric measure of quantum correlation that we refer to as quantum reactivity. This measure is extendable to an arbitrary large number of qubits and satisfies the required properties of monotonicity and invariance under unitary operations. Our approach is based on generalization of Schumacher's singlet state triangle inequality that used an information geometry-based entropic distance. We define quantum reactivity as the familiar ratio of surface area to volume. To accomplish this, we use a generalization of information distance to area, volume and higher-dimensional volumes. We examine a spectrum of multipartite states (Werner, W, GHZ etc.) and demonstrate that the quantum reactivity measure is a monotonic function for quantum correlation which satisfies all the properties of a measure for quantum correlation, and provides an ordering of these quantum states as to their degree of correlation.

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and the distance obtains its maximal permissible value

Our choice of metric is not unique. Different choices can give distinct behaviors [ 27 ]. In this manuscript, we use the RR metric.…”

Section: Quantum Geometry In the Space Of Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%