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Device-independent certification of non-classical joint measurements via causal models

Lee, CM; (2019) Device-independent certification of non-classical joint measurements via causal models. npj Quantum Information , 5 , Article 34. 10.1038/s41534-019-0151-1. Green open access

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Abstract

Quantum measurements are crucial for quantum technologies and give rise to some of the most classically counter-intuitive quantum phenomena. As such, the ability to certify the presence of genuinely non-classical joint measurements in a device-independent fashion is vital. However, previous work has either been non-device-independent, or has relied on post-selection—the ability to discard all runs of an experiment in which a specific event did not occur. In the case of entanglement, the post-selection approach applies an entangled measurement to independent states and post-selects the outcome, inducing non-classical correlations between the states that can be device-independently certified using a Bell inequality. That is, it certifies measurement non-classicality not by what it is, but by what it does. This paper remedies this discrepancy by providing a novel notion of what measurement non-classicality is, which, in analogy with Bell’s theorem, corresponds to measurement statistics being incompatible with an underlying classical causal model. It is shown that this provides a more fine-grained notion of non-classicality than post-selection, as it certifies the presence of non-classicality that cannot be revealed by examining post-selected outcomes alone.

Type: Article
Title: Device-independent certification of non-classical joint measurements via causal models
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-019-0151-1
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-019-0151-1
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079488
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