Relative state measures of correlations in bipartite quantum systems

Pierre Rudolfsson, Erik Sjöqvist

Published 2011-03-16, updated 2011-08-30Version 2

Everett's concept of relative state can be viewed as a map that contains information about correlations between measurement outcomes on two quantum systems. We demonstrate how geometric properties of the relative state map can be used to develop operationally well-defined measures of the total correlation in bipartite quantum systems of arbitrary state space dimension. These measures are invariant under local unitary transformations and non-increasing under local operations. We show that some known correlation measures have a natural interpretation in terms of relative states.