Quantum discord was proposed as an information-theoretic measure of the ``quantumness'' of correlations. I show that discord determines the difference between the efficiency of quantum and classical Maxwell's demons---that is, entities that can or cannot measure nonlocal observables or carry out conditional quantum operations---in extracting work from collections of correlated quantum systems.
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Wojciech H. Zurek (2003) studied this question.
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