Super-quantum discord in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials

TL;DR

This paper investigates the temperature dependence of super-quantum discord in real magnetic materials, demonstrating that weak measurements reveal additional quantum correlations useful for quantum technologies.

Contribution

It introduces a method to extract super-quantum discord from magnetic susceptibility data and compares it with standard quantum discord, highlighting advantages of weak measurements in real systems.

Findings

Super-quantum discord varies with temperature in studied materials.

Weak measurements reveal quantum correlations lost in projective measurements.

The approach predicts benefits of weak measurements for quantum resource applications.

Abstract

Super-quantum discord is an extension of the quantum discord concept where weak measurements are made instead of projective measurements. We study the temperature behavior of the super-quantum discord for two real magnetic materials. We extract information about super-quantum discord from the magnetic susceptibility data for iron nitrosyl complexes $\mathrm{ Fe_2(SC_3 H_5N_2)_2(NO)_4}$ and binuclear Cu(II) acetate complex $\mathrm{[Cu_2 L(OAc)]\cdot 6 H_2O}$, where $\mathrm{ L}$ is a ligand that allows us to compare the super-quantum discord with the standard one. The dependence of the super-quantum discord on the parameter describing weak measurements is studied. Obtained difference between super-quantum and quantum discords confirms the detection of additional quantum correlations that are usually destroyed during projective measurements. The use of the approach allows to predict quantitatively in advance the advantages of use of weak measurements versus projective one for quantum technologies in real settings where quantum discord is used as resource. This can be relevant particularly in macroscopic quantum systems where weak measurements can be used to extract information about the system.