Tightness of correlation inequalities with no quantum violation

Ravishankar Ramanathan, Marco Túlio Quintino, Ana Belén Sainz, Gláucia Murta, and Remigiusz Augusiak
Phys. Rev. A 95, 012139 – Published 27 January 2017

Abstract

We study the faces of the set of quantum correlations, i.e., the Bell and noncontextuality inequalities without any quantum violation. First, we investigate the question of whether every proper (facet-defining) Bell inequality for two parties, other than the trivial ones from positivity, normalization, and no-signaling, can be violated by quantum correlations, i.e., whether the classical Bell polytope or the smaller correlation polytope share any facets with their respective quantum sets. To do this, we develop a recently derived bound on the quantum value of linear games based on the norms of game matrices to give a simple sufficient condition to identify linear games with no quantum advantage. Additionally we show how this bound can be extended to the general class of unique games. We then show that the paradigmatic examples of correlation Bell inequalities with no quantum violation, namely the nonlocal computation games, do not constitute facet-defining Bell inequalities, not even for the correlation polytope. We also extend this to an arbitrary prime number of outcomes for a specific class of these games. We then study the faces in the simplest Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Bell scenario of binary dichotomic measurements, and identify edges in the set of quantum correlations in this scenario. Finally, we relate the noncontextual polytope of single-party correlation inequalities with the cut polytope CUT(G), where G denotes the compatibility graph of observables in the contextuality scenario and G denotes the suspension graph of G. We observe that there exist facet-defining noncontextuality inequalities with no quantum violation, and furthermore that this set of inequalities is beyond those implied by the consistent exclusivity principle.

  • Received 9 August 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012139

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Quantum Information, Science & Technology

Authors & Affiliations

Ravishankar Ramanathan1,2,*, Marco Túlio Quintino3, Ana Belén Sainz4, Gláucia Murta5,6, and Remigiusz Augusiak7

  • 1National Quantum Information Center of Gdańsk, 81-824 Sopot, Poland
  • 2Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
  • 3Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève, Switzerland
  • 4H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom
  • 5Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • 6QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands
  • 7Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

  • *ravishankar.r.10@gmail.com

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Vol. 95, Iss. 1 — January 2017

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