Composable simultaneous purification: when all communication scenarios reduce to spatial correlations
Abstract
Bell non-locality is a powerful framework to distinguish classical, quantum and post-quantum resources, which relies on non-communicating players. Under which restriction can we have the same separations, if we allow for communication? Non-signalling state assemblages, and the fact that they can always be simultaneously purified, turned out to be the key element to restrict the simplest bipartite communication scenario, the prepare-and-measure, to the standard bipartite Bell scenario. Yet, many distinctive features of quantum theory are genuinely multipartite and cannot be reduced to two-party behaviour. In this work we are interested in extending this simultaneous purification inspired result to all multipartite communication schemes. As a first step, we unify and extend the simultaneous purification result from states to instruments and super-instruments, which are composable structures, and open up the possibility to explore more complex communication scenarios. Our main contribution is to establish that arbitrary compositions of non-signalling assemblages cannot escape the standard spatial quantum Bell correlations set. As a consequence, any interactive quantum realization of correlations outside of this set must involve at least one signalling assemblage of quantum operations, even when the resulting correlations are non-signalling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.05158,
title = {Composable simultaneous purification: when all communication scenarios reduce to spatial correlations},
author = {Matilde Baroni and Dominik Leichtle and Ivan Šupić and Damian Markham and Marco Túlio Quintino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05158},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures