Calculation of quantum discord in arbitrary dimensions, especially for X- and other specialized states

Abstract

Quantum discord, a kind of quantum correlation based on entropic measures, is defined as the difference between quantum mutual information and classical correlation in a bipartite system. Procedures are available for analytical calculation of discord when one of the parties is a qubit with dimension two and measurements made on it to get that one-way discord. We extend now to systems when both parties are of larger dimension, of interest to qudit-quDit with d, D > 2 or spin chains of spins > 1/2. While recognizing that no universal scheme is feasible, applicable to all density matrices, nevertheless a procedure similar to that for d=2 that works for many mixed-state density matrices remains of interest as shown by recent such applications. We focus on this method that uses unitary operations to describe measurements, reducing them to a compact form so as to minimize the number of variables needed for extremizing the classical correlation, often the most difficult part of the discord calculation. Results are boiled down to a simple recipe for that extremization; for some classes of density matrices, the procedure even gives trivially the final value of the classical correlation without that extremization. A qutrit-qutrit (d=D=3) system is discussed in detail with specific applications to density matrices for whom other calculations involved difficult numerics. Special attention is given to the so-called X-states and Werner and isotropic states when the calculations become particularly simple. An appendix discusses an independent but related question of the systematics of X-states of arbitrary dimension. It forms a second, separate, part of this paper, extending our previous group-theoretic considerations of systematics for qubits now to higher d.

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