Finite de Finetti theorem for conditional probability distributions describing physical theories
Quantum Physics
2009-04-16 v2
Abstract
We work in a general framework where the state of a physical system is defined by its behaviour under measurement and the global state is constrained by no-signalling conditions. We show that the marginals of symmetric states in such theories can be approximated by convex combinations of independent and identical conditional probability distributions, generalizing the classical finite de Finetti theorem of Diaconis and Freedman. Our results apply to correlations obtained from quantum states even when there is no bound on the local dimension, so that known quantum de Finetti theorems cannot be used.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.0916,
title = {Finite de Finetti theorem for conditional probability distributions describing physical theories},
author = {Matthias Christandl and Ben Toner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0916},
year = {2009}
}
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