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The protection of different quantum correlations, such as Bell nonlocality, quantum discord, and geometric quantum discord as trace distance against noise, is explored. By weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal, we show that the mentioned quantum correlations can be effectively preserved probabilistically from the decoherence due to amplitude damping. The results will play an important role in the experiments using the quantum correlations as resource.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11205028, 11175043, 11405026, and 11201427), the Plan for Scientific and Technological Development of Jilin Province (No. 20130522145JH and 20150520083JH), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. 12SSXM001 and 14QNJJ008), the Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (Y201432746), and National Research Foundation and Ministry of Education, Singapore. C. F. Sun and Z. H. Chen were also supported in part by the Government of China through CSC.
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Sun, C., Chen, Z., Wang, G. et al. Protection of quantum correlations against decoherence. Quantum Inf Process 15, 773–790 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-1203-x
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