Entanglement and discord of the superposition of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states
Preeti Parashar, Swapan Rana · Physical Review A · 2011
We calculate the analytic expression for geometric measure of entanglement for arbitrary superposition of two $N$-qubit canonical orthonormal Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states and the same for two $W$ states. In the course of characterizing all kinds of nonclassical correlations, an explicit formula for quantum discord (via relative entropy) for the former class of states has been presented. Contrary to the GHZ state, the closest separable state to the $W$ state is not classical. Therefore, in this case, the discord is different from the relative entropy of entanglement. We conjecture that the discord for the $N$-qubit $W$ state is $\mathrm{log}{}_{2}N$.