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Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 010404 (2003) [4 pages]

Are There Phase Transitions in Information Space?

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Jonathan Oppenheim1,2, Michał Horodecki2, and Ryszard Horodecki2
1Racah Institute of Theoretical Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
2Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Received 30 July 2002; published 10 January 2003

The interplay between two basic quantities—quantum communication and information—is investigated. Quantum communication is an important resource for quantum states shared by two parties and is directly related to entanglement. Recently, the amount of local information that can be drawn from a state has been shown to be closely related to the nonlocal properties of the state. Here we consider both formation and extraction processes, and analyze informational resources as a function of quantum communication. The resulting diagrams in information space allow us to observe phaselike transitions when correlations become classical.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.010404
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.010404
PACS:
03.65.Ud, 03.67.–a