A study of quantum correlations in open quantum systems

In this work, we study quantum correlations in mixed states. The states studied are modeled by a two-qubit system interacting with its environment via a quantum nondemolition (purely dephasing) as well as dissipative type of interaction. The entanglement dynamics of this two qubit system is analyzed and the existence of entangled states which do not violate Bell’s inequality, but can still be useful as a potential resource for teleportation are reported. In addition, a comparative study of various measures of quantum correlations, like Concurrence, Bell’s inequality, Discord and Teleportation fidelity, is made on these states, generated by the above evolutions. Interestingly, examples are found, of states, where entanglement is vanishing, but discord is non-vanishing, bringing out the fact that entanglement is a subset of quantum correlations.