Witnessing nonclassical multipartite states

Details Witnessing nonclassical multipartite states Witnessing nonclassical multipartite states

2011-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/1108.4001v2

Phys. Rev. A 84, 042123 (2011)

Physics

Quantum Physics

V2: 6 pages, 4 figures. Published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.84.042123

We investigate a witness for nonclassical multipartite states based on their disturbance under local measurements. The witness operator provides a sufficient condition for nonclassicality that coincides with a nonvanishing global quantum discord, but it does not demand an extremization procedure. Moreover, for the case of Z_2-symmetric systems, we rewrite the witness in terms of correlation functions so that classicality is found to necessarily require either vanishing magnetization in the invariant axis or isotropy of the two-point function in the transverse spin plane. We illustrate our results in quantum spin chains, where a characterization of factorized ground states (with spontaneously broken Z_2 symmetry) is achieved. As a by-product, the witness will also be shown to indicate a second-order quantum phase transitions, which will be illustrated both for the XY and Ashkin-Teller spin chains.

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