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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.032317
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We give an operational definition of the quantum, classical, and total amounts of correlations in a bipartite quantum state. We argue that these quantities can be defined via the amount of work (noise) that is required to erase (destroy) the correlations: for the total correlation, we have to erase completely, for the quantum correlation we have to erase until a separable state is obtained, and the classical correlation is the maximal correlation left after erasing the quantum correlations. In particular, we show that the total amount of correlations is equal to the quantum mutual information, thus providing it with a direct operational interpretation. As a by-product, we obtain a direct, operational, and elementary proof of strong subadditivity of quantum entropy.
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