Effects of environmental parameters to total, quantum and classical correlations.pdf

Effects of environmental parameters to total, quantum and classical correlations Wen-Ling Chan1, Jun-Peng Cao1,2, Dong Yang1,3 , and Shi-Jian Gu1∗ 1Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China 3Department of Physics, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China (Dated: February 1, 2008) We quantify the total, quantum, and classical correlations with entropic measures, and quantita- tively compare these correlations in a quantum system, as exemplified by a Heisenberg dimer which is subjected to the change of environmental parameters: temperature and nonuniform external field. Our results show that the quantum correlation may exceed the classical correlation at some nonzero temperatures, though the former is rather fragile than the later under thermal fluctuation. The 6 effect of the external field to the classical correlation is quite different from the quantum correlation. 0 0 PACS numbers: 03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud, 75.10.Jm 2 c e I. INTRODUCTION tween the classical correlation and quantum correlation D in a realistic system? Is the classical correlation always larger than the quantum one? Why we live in a classical 9