When Quantum Nonlocality Does Not Play Dice

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Autori principali: Ramanathan, Ravishankar, Liu, Yuan, Pironio, Stefano
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author Ramanathan, Ravishankar
Liu, Yuan
Pironio, Stefano
author_facet Ramanathan, Ravishankar
Liu, Yuan
Pironio, Stefano
contents Bell inequality violations are often taken as evidence that quantum nonlocality guarantees intrinsic randomness, effectively playing the role of a "dice" at the heart of many device-independent cryptographic protocols. We show that there exist nontrivial Bell inequalities that are maximally violated by quantum correlations yet fail to certify randomness for any fixed input pair, rendering them useless for a large class of standard device-independent schemes. This is achieved through a systematic construction based on symmetric deterministic extensions of nonlocal games. We further construct maximally nonlocal quantum correlations that are deterministic for every fixed input pair, in the sense that for any chosen inputs they admit a convex decomposition into strategies with fixed outputs for those inputs. In the no-signalling framework, this property corresponds to the "bound randomness" of [Acín et al., PRA 93, 012319 (2016)], where an adversary-once learning the inputs-can steer the correlations into a decomposition that makes the outputs fully predictable, thereby making them useless in most existing device-independent protocols. In contrast, bound randomness is impossible in quantum theory: any quantum correlations that become deterministic once the inputs are revealed must in fact be local. Our results pinpoint the precise limits of determinism compatible with quantum nonlocality.
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Ramanathan, Ravishankar
Liu, Yuan
Pironio, Stefano
Quantum Physics
Bell inequality violations are often taken as evidence that quantum nonlocality guarantees intrinsic randomness, effectively playing the role of a "dice" at the heart of many device-independent cryptographic protocols. We show that there exist nontrivial Bell inequalities that are maximally violated by quantum correlations yet fail to certify randomness for any fixed input pair, rendering them useless for a large class of standard device-independent schemes. This is achieved through a systematic construction based on symmetric deterministic extensions of nonlocal games. We further construct maximally nonlocal quantum correlations that are deterministic for every fixed input pair, in the sense that for any chosen inputs they admit a convex decomposition into strategies with fixed outputs for those inputs. In the no-signalling framework, this property corresponds to the "bound randomness" of [Acín et al., PRA 93, 012319 (2016)], where an adversary-once learning the inputs-can steer the correlations into a decomposition that makes the outputs fully predictable, thereby making them useless in most existing device-independent protocols. In contrast, bound randomness is impossible in quantum theory: any quantum correlations that become deterministic once the inputs are revealed must in fact be local. Our results pinpoint the precise limits of determinism compatible with quantum nonlocality.
title When Quantum Nonlocality Does Not Play Dice
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03665