Nonlocal Games Revisited: A Representation-Theoretic Path from Bell Locality to Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy

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Autori principali: Özyılmaz, Mustafa Mert, Thareja, Ruchi, Nasser, Houssam
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author Özyılmaz, Mustafa Mert
Thareja, Ruchi
Nasser, Houssam
author_facet Özyılmaz, Mustafa Mert
Thareja, Ruchi
Nasser, Houssam
contents Nonlocal games provide a unified framework for studying the distinction between classical, quantum, and more general no-signaling correlations. In this work, we develop this perspective by connecting the Bell-locality framework to several complementary mathematical representations of nonlocal games and quantum strategies. We begin with local hidden-variable models, the CHSH inequality, and the role of Bell nonlocality as a device-independent witness of entanglement, and then introduce nonlocal games through the standard predicate/verifier formalism. We next examine a set of representative examples, including XOR games, the GHZ game, graph-based coloring games, the Mermin-Peres magic square game, and Hardy's paradox as a related logical manifestation of nonlocality. Building on this foundation, we compare four closely related representation frameworks: conditional-probability and correlation descriptions, Bell-functional formulations, entangled-value optimization, and the quantum-operator approach together with the Navascues-Pironio-Acin (NPA) hierarchy. These viewpoints are then instantiated for the CHSH, magic square, and GHZ games, showing how each representation emphasizes a different aspect of the same underlying task. Taken together, these examples show that nonlocal games can be studied simultaneously as geometric objects in correlation space, optimization problems over entangled resources, and operator-theoretic constructions. This multi-representation viewpoint clarifies the relation between Bell inequality violations, perfect quantum strategies, pseudo-telepathy, and semidefinite relaxations of quantum correlations.
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Özyılmaz, Mustafa Mert
Thareja, Ruchi
Nasser, Houssam
Quantum Physics
Nonlocal games provide a unified framework for studying the distinction between classical, quantum, and more general no-signaling correlations. In this work, we develop this perspective by connecting the Bell-locality framework to several complementary mathematical representations of nonlocal games and quantum strategies. We begin with local hidden-variable models, the CHSH inequality, and the role of Bell nonlocality as a device-independent witness of entanglement, and then introduce nonlocal games through the standard predicate/verifier formalism. We next examine a set of representative examples, including XOR games, the GHZ game, graph-based coloring games, the Mermin-Peres magic square game, and Hardy's paradox as a related logical manifestation of nonlocality. Building on this foundation, we compare four closely related representation frameworks: conditional-probability and correlation descriptions, Bell-functional formulations, entangled-value optimization, and the quantum-operator approach together with the Navascues-Pironio-Acin (NPA) hierarchy. These viewpoints are then instantiated for the CHSH, magic square, and GHZ games, showing how each representation emphasizes a different aspect of the same underlying task. Taken together, these examples show that nonlocal games can be studied simultaneously as geometric objects in correlation space, optimization problems over entangled resources, and operator-theoretic constructions. This multi-representation viewpoint clarifies the relation between Bell inequality violations, perfect quantum strategies, pseudo-telepathy, and semidefinite relaxations of quantum correlations.
title Nonlocal Games Revisited: A Representation-Theoretic Path from Bell Locality to Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09458