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Perfect Commuting-Operator Strategies for Linear System Games

Quantum Physics 2017-02-01 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Linear system games are a generalization of Mermin's magic square game introduced by Cleve and Mittal. They show that perfect strategies for linear system games in the tensor-product model of entanglement correspond to finite-dimensional operator solutions of a certain set of non-commutative equations. We investigate linear system games in the commuting-operator model of entanglement, where Alice and Bob's measurement operators act on a joint Hilbert space, and Alice's operators must commute with Bob's operators. We show that perfect strategies in this model correspond to possibly-infinite-dimensional operator solutions of the non-commutative equations. The proof is based around a finitely-presented group associated to the linear system which arises from the non-commutative equations.

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@article{arxiv.1606.02278,
  title  = {Perfect Commuting-Operator Strategies for Linear System Games},
  author = {Richard Cleve and Li Liu and William Slofstra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02278},
  year   = {2017}
}
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