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arXiv:1207.5485 · Physical Review A

All quantum states useful for teleportation are nonlocal resources

Daniel Cavalcanti, Antonio Acín, Nicolas Brunner, Tamás Vértesi

Published Apr 8, 2013• 82 citations
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Abstract

Understanding the relation between the different forms of inseparability in quantum mechanics is a longstanding problem in the foundations of quantum theory and has implications for quantum information processing. Here we make progress in this direction by establishing a direct link between quantum teleportation and Bell nonlocality. In particular, we show that all entangled states which are useful for teleportation are nonlocal resources, i.e., lead to deterministic violation of Bell's inequality. Our result also extends the phenomenon of superactivation of quantum nonlocality, recently proven by C. Palazuelos [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190401 (2012)], and suggests that the latter might in fact be more general than initially thought.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.87.042104

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Bell nonlocality and quantum steering are recognized as two important physical resources and offer quantum advantages in modern quantum information processing. Inspired by the asymmetric relations of teleportation to Bell nonlocality and quantum steering, in this paper we unify the maximal violation of Bell inequality and the maximal violation of the three-setting linear steering inequality by introducing the concept of average correlation and manage to establish the relation of average correlation to quantum teleportation. Particularly, we propose a necessary and sufficient condition for any two-qubit state with nonclassicality in terms of average correlation for teleportation. Our results suggest that average correlation is not only used to detect the nonclassicality of quantum states, but also can be useful as a potential resource for teleportation.
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Bell nonlocality describes a manifestation of quantum mechanics that cannot be explained by any local hidden variable model. Its origin lies in the nature of quantum entanglement, although understanding the precise relationship between nonlocality and entanglement has been a notorious open problem. In this paper, we develop a dynamical framework in which quantum Bell nonlocality emerges as a special form of entanglement and both are unified as resources under local operations and classical communication (LOCC). Our framework is built on the notion of classical and quantum processes, which are defined as channels that map elements between specific intervals in space and time. Entanglement is identified as a process that cannot be generated by LOCC while Bell nonlocality is the subset of these processes that have an instantaneous input-to-output delay time. LOCC preprocessing is a natural set of free operations in this theory, thereby providing previous nonlocality activation results a clear resource-theoretic foundation. We provide a systematic method to quantify the Bell nonlocality of a bipartite quantum channel. It is shown that both the relative entropy and the max relative entropy of nonlocality are nonadditive for a family of bipartite classical channels. This family includes the channel obtained when using the singlet state to maximally violate the CHSH inequality. We also find that the regularized relative entropy of Bell nonlocality provides an upper bound on the asymptotic rate of converting (i.e., simulating) many copies of one classical instantaneous resource to another.