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Simultaneous Certification of Entangled States and Measurements in Bounded Dimensional Semi-Quantum Games

Quantum Physics 2020-09-16 v1

Abstract

Certification of quantum systems and operations is a central task in quantum information processing. Most current schemes rely on a tomography with fully characterised devices, while this may not be met in real experiments. Device characterisations can be removed with device-independent tests, it is technically challenging at the moment, though. In this letter, we investigate the problem of certifying entangled states and measurements via semi-quantum games, a type of non-local quantum games with well characterised quantum inputs, balancing practicality and device-independence. We first design a specific bounded-dimensional measurement-device-independent game, with which we simultaneously certify any pure entangled state and Bell state measurement operators. Afterwards via a duality treatment of state and measurement, we interpret the dual form of this game as a source-independent bounded-dimensional entanglement swapping protocol and show the whole process, including any entangled projector and Bell states, can be certified with this protocol. In particular, our results do not require a complete Bell state measurement, which is beneficial for experiments and practical use.

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@article{arxiv.1911.05981,
  title  = {Simultaneous Certification of Entangled States and Measurements in Bounded Dimensional Semi-Quantum Games},
  author = {Xingjian Zhang and Qi Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.05981},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures