Discording Power of Quantum Evolutions

Discording power of quantum evolutions.

We introduce the discording power of a unitary transformation, which assesses its capability to produce quantum discord, and analyze in detail the generation of discord by relevant classes of two-qubit gates. Our measure is based on the Cartan decomposition of two-qubit unitaries and on evaluating the maximum discord achievable by a unitary upon acting on classical-classical states at fixed pur...

On The Power Of Coherently Controlled Quantum Adiabatic Evolutions

A major challenge facing adiabatic quantum computing is that algorithm design and error correction can be difficult for adiabatic quantum computing. Recent work has considered addressing this challenge by using coherently controlled adiabatic evolutions in the place of classically controlled evolution. An important question remains: what is the relative power of controlled adiabatic evolution t...

Multipartite entanglement, quantum- error-correcting codes, and entangling power of quantum evolutions

Controlled quantum evolutions and transitions

We study the nonstationary solutions of Fokker–Planck equations associated to either stationary or non stationary quantum states. In particular, we discuss the stationary states of quantum systems with singular velocity fields. We introduce a technique that allows arbitrary evolutions ruled by these equations to account for controlled quantum transitions. As a first signficant application we pr...

Matrix realignment and partial-transpose approach to entangling power of quantum evolutions

Given a unitary operator, in the context of quantum information 1 , one may ask how much entanglement capability the operator has. The entangling unitary operator can be considered as a resource for quantum-information processing, and it becomes important to quantitatively describe unitary operators. Recently, there is increasing interest in the entanglement capabilities of quantum evolution an...