2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/165221The central focus of this work is to make progress towards understanding entanglement as a resource for computation by examining the quantum correlations that can be extracted from stabilizer states. As such, we focus on the stabilizer formalism, local realism, and the convergence of the two.213 pages, 25 figures, and 2 tables. Ph.D. Thesis, University of New Mexico, 2008Quantum Physicstext