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Anonymous Quantum Nonlocality

Quantum Physics 2014-09-26 v1

Abstract

We show that for all n3n\ge3, an example of an nn-partite quantum correlation that is not genuinely multipartite nonlocal but rather exhibiting anonymous nonlocality, that is, nonlocal but biseparable with respect to all bipartitions, can be obtained by locally measuring the nn-partite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state. This anonymity is a manifestation of the impossibility to attribute unambiguously the underlying multipartite nonlocality to any definite subset(s) of the parties, even though the correlation can indeed be produced by nonlocal collaboration involving only such subsets. An explicit biseparable decomposition of these correlations is provided for any partitioning of the nn parties into two groups. Two possible applications of these anonymous GHZ correlations in the device-independent setting are discussed: multipartite secret sharing between any two groups of parties and bipartite quantum key distribution that is robust against nearly arbitrary leakage of information.

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@article{arxiv.1405.3657,
  title  = {Anonymous Quantum Nonlocality},
  author = {Yeong-Cherng Liang and Florian John Curchod and Joseph Bowles and Nicolas Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.3657},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 + 4 pages, 2 figures; comments welcomed!

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