Hedging bets with correlated quantum strategies
Quantum Physics
2015-05-27 v2
Abstract
This paper studies correlations among independently administered hypothetical tests of a simple interactive type, and demonstrates that correlations arising in quantum information theoretic variants of these tests can exhibit a striking non-classical behavior. When viewed in a game-theoretic setting, these correlations are suggestive of a perfect form of hedging, where the risk of a loss in one game of chance is perfectly offset by one's actions in a second game. This type of perfect hedging is quantum in nature: it is not possible in classical variants of the tests we consider.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1104.1140,
title = {Hedging bets with correlated quantum strategies},
author = {Abel Molina and John Watrous},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1140},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages, 2 figures; v2: corrected a phase-flip error in Section 4