Completely positive maps and classical correlations

Rodríguez-Rosario, César A. ; Modi, Kavan ; Kuah, Aik-meng ; Shaji, Anil ; Sudarshan, E. C. G. (2008) Completely positive maps and classical correlations Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 (20). 205301_1-205301_8. ISSN 1751-8113

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Abstract

We expand the set of initial states of a system and its environment that are known to guarantee completely positive reduced dynamics for the system when the combined state evolves unitarily. We characterize the correlations in the initial state in terms of its quantum discord [1]. We prove that initial states that have only classical correlations lead to completely positive reduced dynamics. The induced maps can be not completely positive when quantum correlations including, but not limited to, entanglement are present.

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