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Tripartite orbital angular momentum quantum information and non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere

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The distributions of tripartite quantum information (including entanglement, discord-like correlation and coherence) with orbital angular momentum states in non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere are investigated. We introduce two exactly computable measures for tripartite discord-like correlation and tripartite coherence by consider the geometric mean of bipartite quantities. For illustration, we consider Laguerre–Gaussian beams to explore the propagations of typical tripartite states (the W state and GHZ state) and find that the decay of tripartite quantum information is qualitatively distinct from that of bipartite quantum information. It also shown that tripartite quantum information is almost insensitive to the outer scale parameter while the decay can be slowed down with a larger inner scale parameter.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 11811530052, 61701196 and 61871202) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. JUSRP21935).

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    Zheng-Da Hu, Shuang Zhai, Jicheng Wang, Yun Zhu & Yixin Zhang

  2. Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Light Industrial Optoelectronic Engineering and Technology, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Zheng-Da Hu, Shuang Zhai, Jicheng Wang, Yun Zhu & Yixin Zhang

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Hu, ZD., Zhai, S., Wang, J. et al. Tripartite orbital angular momentum quantum information and non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere. Quantum Inf Process 20, 263 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03201-1

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