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arXiv:1009.4207 · Physical Review Letters

Bound Nonlocality and Activation

Nicolas Brunner, Daniel Cavalcanti, Alejo Salles, Paul Skrzypczyk

Published Jan 10, 2011• 46 citations
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Abstract

We investigate nonlocality distillation using measures of nonlocality based on the Elitzur-Popescu-Rohrlich decomposition. For a certain number of copies of a given nonlocal box, we define two quantities of interest: (i) the nonlocal cost and (ii) the distillable nonlocality. We find that there exist boxes whose distillable nonlocality is strictly smaller than their nonlocal cost. Thus nonlocality displays a form of irreversibility which we term "bound nonlocality." Finally, we show that nonlocal distillability can be activated.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.106.020402

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