The most common type of quantum correlations is quantum entanglement, which plays an indisputable vital role in a number of quantum information theory tasks, including quantum teleportation, quantum dense coding, and quantum cryptography. However, current findings indicate that different Entanglement is not necessary for applications in quantum information theory, and their performance can be described by a novel kind of quantum correlations that transcends entanglement. The most well-liked candidate for such widespread quantum connections is quantum discord, which Zurek first proposed more than ten years ago. We provide an overview of this current line of inquiry in this work. Following a brief overview of the fundamental ideas of quantum theory and entanglement, we introduce quantum discord and generic quantum correlations and go over three applications that are predicated on this novel kind of correlation: transmission of correlations, entanglement dispersion, and remote state preparation. We also provide an outlook for future research in this area.
Jangid et al. (2026) studied this question.