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arXiv:1706.07090 · Physical Review Letters

Towards Device-Independent Information Processing on General Quantum Networks

Ciarán M. Lee, Matty J. Hoban

Published Jan 10, 2018• 64 citations
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Abstract

The violation of certain Bell inequalities allows for device-independent information processing secure against nonsignaling eavesdroppers. However, this only holds for the Bell network, in which two or more agents perform local measurements on a single shared source of entanglement. To overcome the practical constraints that entangled systems can only be transmitted over relatively short distances, large-scale multisource networks have been employed. Do there exist analogs of Bell inequalities for such networks, whose violation is a resource for device independence? In this Letter, the violation of recently derived polynomial Bell inequalities will be shown to allow for device independence on multisource networks, secure against nonsignaling eavesdroppers.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.120.020504

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