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Bound non-locality and activation

Quantum Physics 2011-01-18 v1

Abstract

We investigate non-locality distillation using measures of non-locality based on the Elitzur-Popescu-Rohrlich decomposition. For a certain number of copies of a given non-local correlation, we define two quantities of interest: (i) the non-local cost, and (ii) the distillable non-locality. We find that there exist correlations whose distillable non-locality is strictly smaller than their non-local cost. Thus non-locality displays a form of irreversibility which we term bound non-locality. Finally we show that non-local distillability can be activated.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.4207,
  title  = {Bound non-locality and activation},
  author = {Nicolas Brunner and Daniel Cavalcanti and Alejo Salles and Paul Skrzypczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4207},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure

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