Unification of different views of decoherence and discord
Patrick J. Coles

TL;DR
This paper unifies various definitions of decoherence through quantitative connections and explores their implications for understanding quantum discord and non-classical correlations.
Contribution
It provides a general framework linking different views of decoherence and offers new insights into quantum discord measures and their operational significance.
Findings
Unified definitions of decoherence through quantitative relations
Quantum discord measures relate to information missing from purifying systems
Strategies for constructing quantum discord measures
Abstract
Macroscopic behavior such as the lack of interference patterns has been attributed to "decoherence", a word with several possible definitions such as (1) the loss of off-diagonal density matrix elements, (2) the flow of information to the environment, (3) the loss of complementary information, and (4) the loss of the ability to create entanglement in a measurement. In this article, we attempt to unify these distinct definitions by providing general quantitative connections between them, valid for all finite-dimensional quantum systems or quantum processes. The most important application of our results is to the understanding of quantum discord, a measure of the non-classicality of the correlations between quantum systems. We show that some popular measures of discord measure the information missing from the purifying system and hence quantify security, which can be stated operationally…
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