Device-independent self-testing allows to uniquely characterize the quantum state shared by untrusted parties (up to local isometries) by simply inspecting their correlations, and requiring only minimal assumptions, namely a no-signaling constraint on the untrusted parties and the validity of quantum mechanics. The device-independent approach exploits the fact that certain non-local correlations can be uniquely achieved by measurements on a particular quantum state. We can think of these correlations as a "classical fingerprint" of the self-tested quantum state. In this work, we answer affirmatively the outstanding open question of whether all pure bipartite entangled states can be self-tested, by providing explicit self-testing correlations for each.
@article{arxiv.1611.08062,
title = {All Pure Bipartite Entangled States can be Self-Tested},
author = {Andrea Coladangelo and Koon Tong Goh and Valerio Scarani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08062},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
16 pages. Added self-testing of measurements, corrected typos, and improved exposition