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We investigate the correlations that can arise between Alice and Bob in prepare-and-measure communication scenarios where the source (Alice) and the measurement device (Bob) can share prior entanglement. The paradigmatic example of such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Armin Tavakoli , Jef Pauwels , Erik Woodhead , Stefano Pironio

Communication complexity is the amount of communication needed to compute a function when the function inputs are distributed over multiple parties. In its simplest form, one-way communication complexity, Alice and Bob compute a function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naresh Goud Boddu , Rahul Jain , Han-Hsuan Lin

The study of non-local boxes arose from the study of quantum entanglement and from the question: "why isn't entanglement more non-local?". Correlations stronger than quantum entanglement, but that still do not allow for instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Philippe Lamontagne

One of the striking properties of quantum mechanics is the occurrence of the Bell-type non-locality. They are a fundamental feature of the theory that allows two parties that share an entangled quantum system to observe correlations…

In this paper we consider the following question: how many bits of classical communication and shared random bits are necessary to simulate a quantum protocol involving Alice and Bob where they share k entangled quantum bits and do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allison Coates

This paper considers a two-terminal problem in which Alice and Bob aim to perform a joint measurement on a bipartite quantum system $\rho^{AB}$. Alice transmits the results of her measurements to Bob over a classical channel, and the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Anders Høst-Madsen

We study an extension of the standard two-party communication model in which Alice and Bob hold probability distributions $p$ and $q$ over domains $X$ and $Y$, respectively. Their goal is to estimate \[ \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p,\, y \sim…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Parikshit Gopalan , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra , Mihir Singhal , Avi Wigderson

Secure function evaluation is a two-party cryptographic primitive where Bob computes a function of Alice's and his respective inputs, and both hope to keep their inputs private from the other party. It has been proven that perfect (or near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Sarah Osborn , Jamie Sikora

A well known cryptographic primitive is so called random access code. Namely, Alice is to send to Bob one of two bits, so that Bob has the choice which bit he wants to learn about. However at any time Alice should not learn Bob's choice,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Andrzej Grudka , Michał Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki , Antoni Wójcik

In recent years, the activation of hidden nonlocality for a mixed entangled state, admitting a local model, has gained considerable interest. In this paper, we study the activation of hidden nonlocality and preparation contextuality for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Asmita Kumari , Saikat Patra

We first present a protocol for deterministically distilling non-locality, building upon a recent result of Forster et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120401 (2009)]. Our protocol, which is optimal for two-copy distillation, works efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Nicolas Brunner , Paul Skrzypczyk

We consider the task of faithfully simulating a distributed quantum measurement, wherein we provide a protocol for the three parties, Alice, Bob and Eve, to simulate a repeated action of a distributed quantum measurement using a pair of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Touheed Anwar Atif , Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Instantaneous measurements of non-local observables between space-like separated regions can be performed without violating causality. This feat relies on the use of entanglement. Here we propose novel protocols for this task and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Salman Beigi , Robert Koenig

Summoning is a task between two parties, Alice and Bob, with distributed networks of agents in space-time. Bob gives Alice a random quantum state, known to him but not her, at some point. She is required to return the state at some later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Adrian Kent

The hypothetical nonlocal box (\textsf{NLB}) proposed by Popescu and Rohrlich allows two spatially separated parties, Alice and Bob, to exhibit stronger than quantum correlations. If the generated correlations are weak, they can sometimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Peter Høyer , Jibran Rashid

The advent of Bell's inequalities provoked the possibility that entangled quantum phenomena is non-local in nature. Since teleportation only requires a finite amount of classical information, i.e. two bits, the author asks whether or not it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Steiner

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

If Alice must communicate with Bob over a channel shared with the adversarial Eve, then Bob must be able to validate the authenticity of the message. In particular we consider the model where Alice and Eve share a discrete memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Eric Graves , Paul Yu , Predrag Spasojevic

The `no communication' theorem prohibits superluminal communication by showing that any measurement by Alice on an entangled system cannot change the reduced density matrix of Bob's state, and hence the expectation value of any measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Amitava Datta

In this short note, we initiate the study of the Linear Isomorphism Testing Problem in the setting of communication complexity, a natural linear algebraic generalization of the classical Equality problem. Given Boolean functions $f, g :…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Swarnalipa Datta , Arijit Ghosh , Chandrima Kayal , Manaswi Paraashar , Manmatha Roy