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Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Recent Advances and Current Challenges: A Brief Overview; 1.2 Elements of Quantum Information Theory; 1.2.1 Correlations in Composite Quantum Systems: Entanglement and Discord; 1.2.2 Role of Correlated Quantum States in Quantum Information Theory; 1.3 Controllable Quantum Systems; 1.3.1 Trapped Ions; 1.3.2 Cold Gases of Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices; 1.3.3 Photons and (Non- )linear Optics; 1.3.4 Other Systems; 1.4 The Certification of Large-Scale Quantum Devices; 1.5 Nonlinear Spectroscopy.
1.6 Theoretical Description of Composite Quantum Systems1.6.1 Semiclassical Approximations and Mean-Field Theories; 1.6.2 Complex Systems, Spectral Analysis, and Random Matrix Theory; 1.6.3 Open Quantum Systems; 1.6.4 Identical Particles; 1.7 Quantum Phase Transitions; 1.8 Scope and Structure of This Dissertation; References; 2 Local Detection of Correlations in Composite Quantum Systems; 2.1 The Local Detection Protocol; 2.1.1 Local Witness for Bipartite Quantum Discord; 2.1.2 Local Bound for the Minimum Entanglement Potential; 2.1.3 Efficacy of the Method; 2.2 Trapped-Ion Experiment.
2.2.1 Resonant Laser-Ion Interactions2.2.2 The Effect of Small Detunings; 2.2.3 The Local Detection Protocol for the First Blue Sideband; 2.2.4 Generalization to Arbitrary Sidebands; 2.2.5 Extension of the Experimental Technique; 2.3 Photonic Experiment; 2.3.1 The Pre-initial State; 2.3.2 Preparation of the Initial State; 2.3.3 Local Dephasing Operation; 2.3.4 Reduced Distributions; 2.3.5 Total Trace Distance; 2.3.6 Open-System Evolution Depending on Initial Correlations; 2.3.7 Local Trace Distance; 2.4 Theoretical Studies of Further Examples.
2.4.1 Atom-Photon Correlations During Spontaneous Decay2.4.2 Many-Mode Extension of the Trapped-Ion Experiment: A Proposal; 2.4.3 Quantum Phase Transition in a Transverse-Field Ising Chain; 2.5 Discussion; References; 3 From Local Operations to Collective Dephasing: Behavior of Correlated Quantum States; 3.1 Creation of Quantum Discord by Local Operations; 3.2 Correlation Rank: Schmidt Decomposition for Mixed States; 3.3 Trapped-Ion Experiment; 3.3.1 Local Amplitude Damping; 3.3.2 Collective Dephasing; 3.4 General Dynamics of Collective Dephasing; 3.4.1 Kraus Representation.
3.4.2 Ensemble-Average Evolution: Interpretation and Non-Markovian Effects3.4.3 Robustness of Bipartite Entanglement; 3.4.4 Time-Invariant States: Multipartite Werner States; 3.4.5 Robustness of Multipartite Entanglement; 3.5 Discussion; References; 4 Quantum Phase Transition in a Family of Quantum Magnets; 4.1 Variable-Range Quantum Magnets: From Ising to Lipkin
Meshkov
Glick; 4.1.1 A One-Parameter Family of Models; 4.1.2 Special Case: Nearest-Neighbor Ising Model; 4.1.3 Special Case: Fully-Connected Lipkin
Meshkov
Glick Model; 4.2 Single-Spin Signatures of a Quantum Phase Transition.
1.6 Theoretical Description of Composite Quantum Systems1.6.1 Semiclassical Approximations and Mean-Field Theories; 1.6.2 Complex Systems, Spectral Analysis, and Random Matrix Theory; 1.6.3 Open Quantum Systems; 1.6.4 Identical Particles; 1.7 Quantum Phase Transitions; 1.8 Scope and Structure of This Dissertation; References; 2 Local Detection of Correlations in Composite Quantum Systems; 2.1 The Local Detection Protocol; 2.1.1 Local Witness for Bipartite Quantum Discord; 2.1.2 Local Bound for the Minimum Entanglement Potential; 2.1.3 Efficacy of the Method; 2.2 Trapped-Ion Experiment.
2.2.1 Resonant Laser-Ion Interactions2.2.2 The Effect of Small Detunings; 2.2.3 The Local Detection Protocol for the First Blue Sideband; 2.2.4 Generalization to Arbitrary Sidebands; 2.2.5 Extension of the Experimental Technique; 2.3 Photonic Experiment; 2.3.1 The Pre-initial State; 2.3.2 Preparation of the Initial State; 2.3.3 Local Dephasing Operation; 2.3.4 Reduced Distributions; 2.3.5 Total Trace Distance; 2.3.6 Open-System Evolution Depending on Initial Correlations; 2.3.7 Local Trace Distance; 2.4 Theoretical Studies of Further Examples.
2.4.1 Atom-Photon Correlations During Spontaneous Decay2.4.2 Many-Mode Extension of the Trapped-Ion Experiment: A Proposal; 2.4.3 Quantum Phase Transition in a Transverse-Field Ising Chain; 2.5 Discussion; References; 3 From Local Operations to Collective Dephasing: Behavior of Correlated Quantum States; 3.1 Creation of Quantum Discord by Local Operations; 3.2 Correlation Rank: Schmidt Decomposition for Mixed States; 3.3 Trapped-Ion Experiment; 3.3.1 Local Amplitude Damping; 3.3.2 Collective Dephasing; 3.4 General Dynamics of Collective Dephasing; 3.4.1 Kraus Representation.
3.4.2 Ensemble-Average Evolution: Interpretation and Non-Markovian Effects3.4.3 Robustness of Bipartite Entanglement; 3.4.4 Time-Invariant States: Multipartite Werner States; 3.4.5 Robustness of Multipartite Entanglement; 3.5 Discussion; References; 4 Quantum Phase Transition in a Family of Quantum Magnets; 4.1 Variable-Range Quantum Magnets: From Ising to Lipkin
Meshkov
Glick; 4.1.1 A One-Parameter Family of Models; 4.1.2 Special Case: Nearest-Neighbor Ising Model; 4.1.3 Special Case: Fully-Connected Lipkin
Meshkov
Glick Model; 4.2 Single-Spin Signatures of a Quantum Phase Transition.