The key ingredient of the approach, presented in this paper, is the factorization property of SU (2) coherent states upon splitting or decay of a quantum spin system. In this picture, the even and odd spin coherent states are viewed as comprising two, three or more spin subsystems. From this perspective, we investigate the multipartite quantum correlations defined as the sum of the correlations of all possible bi-partitions. The pairwise quantum correlations are quantified by entanglement of formation and quantum discord. A special attention is devoted to tripartite splitting schemes. We explicitly derive the sum of entanglement of formation for all possible bi-partitions. It coincides with the sum of all possible pairwise quantum discord. The conservation relation between the distribution of entanglement of formation and quantum discord, in the tripartite splitting scheme, is discussed. We show that the entanglement of formation and quantum discord possess the monogamy property for even spin coherent states, contrarily to odd ones which violate the monogamy relation when the the overlap of the coherent states approaches the unity.

A global measure of quantum correlations for tripartite nonorthogonal states is presented. It is introduced as the overall average of the pairwise correlations existing in all possible partitions.The explicit expressions for the global measure are derived for squared concurrence, entanglement of formation, quantum discord and its geometric variant. As illustration, we consider even and odd three-mode Schrödinger cat states based on Glauber coherent states. We also discuss limitations to sharing quantum correlations known as monogamy relations.

A linearized variant of relative entropy is used to quantify in a unified scheme the different kinds of correlations in a bipartite quantum system. As illustration, we consider a two-qubit state with parity and exchange symmetries for which we determine the total, classical and quantum correlations. We also give the explicit expressions of its closest product state, closest classical state and the corresponding closest product state. A closed additive relation, involving the various correlations quantified by linear relative entropy, is derived.

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We study the entanglement of formation and the quantum discord contained in even and odd multipartite [Formula: see text]-spin coherent states. The key element of this investigation is the fact that a single [Formula: see text]-spin coherent state is viewed as comprising [Formula: see text] qubit states. We compute the quantum correlations present in the n even and odd [Formula: see text]-spin coherent states by considering all possible bipartite splits of the multipartite system. We discuss the different bi-partition schemes of quantum systems and we examine in detail the conservation rules governing the distribution of quantum correlations between the different qubits of the multipartite system. Finally, we derive the explicit expressions of quantum correlations present in even and odd spin coherent states decomposed in four spin sub-systems. We also analyze the properties of monogamy and we show in particular that the entanglement of the formation and the quantum discord obey the relation of monogamy only for even multipartite [Formula: see text]-spin coherent states.