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Sharing nonlocality in quantum network by unbounded sequential observers

Quantum Physics 2023-01-02 v1

Abstract

Of late, there has been an upsurge of interest in studying the sequential sharing of various forms of quantum correlations, viz., nonlocality, preparation contextuality, coherence, and entanglement. In this work, we explore the sequential sharing of nonlocality in a quantum network. We first consider the simplest case of the two-input bilocality scenario that features two independent sources and three parties, including two edge parties and a central party. We demonstrate that in the symmetric case when the sharing is considered for both the edge parties, the nonlocality can be shared by at most two sequential observers per edge party. However, in the asymmetric case, when the sharing across one edge party is considered, we show that at most, six sequential observers can share the nonlocality in the network. We extend our investigation to the two-input nn-local scenario in the star-network configuration that features an arbitrary nn number of edge parties and one central party. In the asymmetric case, we demonstrate that the network nonlocality can be shared by an unbounded number of sequential observers across one edge party for a suitably large value of nn. Further, we generalize our study for an arbitrary mm input nn-local scenario in the star-network configuration. We show that even for an arbitrary mm input scenario, the nonlocality can be shared by an unbounded number of sequential observers. However, increasing the input mm, one has to employ more number of edge parties nn than that of the two-input case to demonstrate the sharing of an unbounded number of sequential observers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2212.14325,
  title  = {Sharing nonlocality in quantum network by unbounded sequential observers},
  author = {Shyam Sundar Mahato and A. K. Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.14325},
  year   = {2023}
}
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