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Discord in the ranks

Nature Photonics volume 6, pages 724–725 (2012)Cite this article

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The use of a new measure of what it means for a system to be quantum has profound technological and philosophical ramifications for the field of quantum information processing.

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Figure 1: Geometry of the set of quantum states, showing the boundary between states with and without quantum correlations.

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  1. Department of Physics, Animesh Datta is at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK,

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