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Bell states measures are performed in the middle node to realize the QC swapping and correspondingly final correlated sates are obtained. Two different QC quantifiers, i.e., measurement-induced disturbance (MID) and ameliorated MID, are employed to characterize and quantify all the concerned QCs in the swapping process. All QCs in the concerned states are evaluated analytically and numerically. Correspondingly, their characteristics and properties are exposed in detail. It is exposed that, through the QC swapping process, one can obtain the long-distance QC indeed. Moreover, the similarities of monotony features of MID and AMID between the initial states and final states are exposed and analyzed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24091244","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,5]],"date-time":"2022-09-05T23:35:57Z","timestamp":1662420957000},"page":"1244","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Quantum Correlation Swapping between Two Werner States Undergoing Local and Nonlocal Unitary Operations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Chuanmei","family":"Xie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhanjun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianlan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaofeng","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5932","DOI":"10.1103\/PhysRevLett.81.5932","article-title":"Quantum repeaters: The role of imperfect local operations in quantum communication","volume":"81","author":"Briegel","year":"1998","journal-title":"Phys. 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