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Quantum Nonlocality under Latency Constraints

Quantum Physics 2025-10-31 v1

Abstract

Bell inequality violation is the phenomenon where multiple non-communicating parties can exhibit correlations using quantum resources that are impossible if they can only use classical resources. One way to enforce non-communication is to apply a latency constraint: the parties must all produce outputs after they receive their inputs within a time window shorter than the speed of light delay between any pair of parties. If this latency constraint is relaxed so that a subset of the parties can communicate, we can obtain a new set of inequalities on correlations that extends Bell inequalities in a very natural way. Moreover, with this relaxed latency constraint, we can also have quantum communication between a subset of parties and thereby achieve possible quantum violations of these new inequalities. We ultimately wish to answer the fundamental question: "What are the physically realizable correlations between multiple parties under varying latency constraints?" To answer this question, we introduce latency-constrained games, a mathematical framework that extends nonlocal games to the setting where a subset of parties can communicate. The notion of latency-constrained games can have real-world applications, including high frequency trading, distributed computing, computer architecture, and distributed control systems.

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@article{arxiv.2510.26349,
  title  = {Quantum Nonlocality under Latency Constraints},
  author = {Dawei Ding and Zhengfeng Ji and Pierre Pocreau and Mingze Xu and Xinyu Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.26349},
  year   = {2025}
}

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62 pages, 16 figures

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