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Closed sets of correlations: answers from the zoo

Quantum Physics 2015-09-18 v1

Abstract

We investigate the conditions under which a set of multipartite nonlocal correlations can describe the distributions achievable by distant parties conducting experiments in a consistent universe. Several questions are posed, such as: are all such sets "nested", i.e., contained into one another? Are they discrete or do they form a continuum? How many of them are supraquantum? Are there non-trivial polytopes among them? We answer some of these questions or relate them with established conjectures in complexity theory by introducing a "zoo" of physically consistent sets which can be characterized efficiently via either linear or semidefinite programming. As a bonus, we use the zoo to derive, for the first time, concrete impossibility results in nonlocality distillation.

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@article{arxiv.1402.2850,
  title  = {Closed sets of correlations: answers from the zoo},
  author = {Ben Lang and Tamas Vertesi and Miguel Navascues},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2850},
  year   = {2015}
}

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24 pages, 5 figures