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Unbounded randomness certification using sequences of measurements

Quantum Physics 2017-03-01 v2

Abstract

Unpredictability, or randomness, of the outcomes of measurements made on an entangled state can be certified provided that the statistics violate a Bell inequality. In the standard Bell scenario where each party performs a single measurement on its share of the system, only a finite amount of randomness, of at most 4log2d4 log_2 d bits, can be certified from a pair of entangled particles of dimension dd. Our work shows that this fundamental limitation can be overcome using sequences of (nonprojective) measurements on the same system. More precisely, we prove that one can certify any amount of random bits from a pair of qubits in a pure state as the resource, even if it is arbitrarily weakly entangled. In addition, this certification is achieved by near-maximal violation of a particular Bell inequality for each measurement in the sequence.

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@article{arxiv.1510.03394,
  title  = {Unbounded randomness certification using sequences of measurements},
  author = {F. J. Curchod and M. Johansson and R. Augusiak and M. J. Hoban and P. Wittek and A. Acín},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03394},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 + 5 pages (1 + 3 images), published version

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