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July 10, 2024
SEMINAR: The Elegant Joint Measurement is nonlocal in the triangle network

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Seminar Room

SEMINAR: The Elegant Joint Measurement is nonlocal in the triangle network

VICTOR GITTON
ETH Zürich

Proving the incompatibility of a distribution with a classical causal structure is generally a difficult task, due to the non-convex nature of the problem. This task needs to be tackled to provide examples of quantum nonlocality, i.e., examples of distributions that are compatible with a quantum causal structure but incompatible with the corresponding classical causal structure. Even in the simple triangle network, few examples of quantum nonlocality are known. A candidate is the Elegant Joint Measurement (EJM) distribution, a highly symmetric distribution that can be obtained using quantum states and measurements in the triangle network. This distribution has been conjectured to be nonlocal 6 years ago. Motivated by this conjecture, we developed an improved implementation of the inflation technique, which allows to certify the incompatibility of a distribution with a causal structure. Our implementation allowed us to produce a computer-assisted proof of nonlocality for the EJM distribution, thereby opening new avenues to advance the state of the art for certifying causal incompatibility in general classical causal structures.

Hosted by Prof. Dr. Antonio Acín
Seminars
July 10, 2024
SEMINAR: The Elegant Joint Measurement is nonlocal in the triangle network

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Seminar Room

SEMINAR: The Elegant Joint Measurement is nonlocal in the triangle network

VICTOR GITTON
ETH Zürich

Proving the incompatibility of a distribution with a classical causal structure is generally a difficult task, due to the non-convex nature of the problem. This task needs to be tackled to provide examples of quantum nonlocality, i.e., examples of distributions that are compatible with a quantum causal structure but incompatible with the corresponding classical causal structure. Even in the simple triangle network, few examples of quantum nonlocality are known. A candidate is the Elegant Joint Measurement (EJM) distribution, a highly symmetric distribution that can be obtained using quantum states and measurements in the triangle network. This distribution has been conjectured to be nonlocal 6 years ago. Motivated by this conjecture, we developed an improved implementation of the inflation technique, which allows to certify the incompatibility of a distribution with a causal structure. Our implementation allowed us to produce a computer-assisted proof of nonlocality for the EJM distribution, thereby opening new avenues to advance the state of the art for certifying causal incompatibility in general classical causal structures.

Hosted by Prof. Dr. Antonio Acín