Entanglement and Discord of superposition of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states

Preeti Parashar, Swapan Rana

Published 2009-09-24, updated 2011-03-11Version 3

We calculate the analytic expression for geometric measure of entanglement for arbitrary superposition of two $N$-qubit canonical orthonormal Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger ($GHZ$) states and the same for two $W$ states. In course of characterizing all kinds of nonclassical correlations, explicit formula for quantum discord (via relative entropy) for the former class of states has been presented. Contrary to the $GHZ$ state, the closest separable state to the $W$ state is not classical. Therefore, in this case the discord is different from the relative entropy of entanglement. We conjecture that the discord for the $N$-qubit $W$ state is $\log_2N$.