Direct scheme for measuring the geometric quantum discord

Jia-sen Jin, Feng-yang Zhang, Chang-shui Yu, He-shan Song

Published 2011-10-26Version 1

We propose a scheme to directly measure the exact value of geometric quantum discord of an arbitrary two-qubit state. We only need to perform the projective measurement in the all anti-symmetric subspace and our scheme is parametrically efficient in contrast to the widely adopted quantum state tomography scheme in the sense of less parameter estimations and projectors. Moreover, the present scheme can be easily realized with the current experimental techniques.