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arXiv:1712.10227 · Physical Review A

Steering a single system sequentially by multiple observers

Souradeep Sasmal, Debarshi Das, Shiladitya Mal, A. S. Majumdar

Published Jul 5, 2018• 80 citations
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Abstract

Quantum mechanics puts a restriction on the number of observers who can simultaneously steer another observer's system, known as the monogamy of steering. In this work, we find the limit of the number of observers (Bobs) who can steer another party's (Alice's) system, invoking a scenario where half of an entangled pair is shared between a single Alice in one wing and several Bobs on the other wing, who act sequentially and independently of each other. When all the observers measure two dichotomic observables, we find that two Bobs can steer Alice's system, going beyond the monogamy restriction. We further show that three Bobs can steer Alice's system, considering a three-settings linear steering inequality, and then conjecture that, at most, $n$ Bobs can demonstrate steering of Alice's system when steering is probed through an $n$-settings linear steering inequality.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.98.012305

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Abstract Quantum steering, a type of quantum correlation with unique asymmetry, has important applications in asymmetric quantum information tasks. We consider a new quantum steering scenario in which one half of a two-qubit Werner state is sequentially measured by multiple Alices and the other half by multiple Bobs. We find that the maximum number of Alices who can share steering with a single Bob increases from 2 to 5 when the number of measurement settings N increases from 2 to 16. Furthermore, we find a counterintuitive phenomenon that for a fixed N, at most 2 Alices can share steering with 2 Bobs, while 4 or more Alices are allowed to share steering with a single Bob. We further analyze the robustness of the steering sharing by calculating the required purity of the initial Werner state, the lower bound of which varies from 0.503(1) to 0.979(5). Finally, we show that our both-sides sequential steering sharing scheme can be applied to control the steering ability, even the steering direction, if an initial asymmetric state or asymmetric measurement is adopted. Our work gives insights into the diversity of steering sharing and can be extended to study the problems such as genuine multipartite quantum steering when the sequential unsharp measurement is applied.
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Recently, it has been shown that at most two observers (Bobs) can sequentially demonstrate bipartite nonlocality with a spatially separated single observer (Alice) invoking a scenario where an entangled system of two spin-12\frac{1}{2}21​ particles are shared between a single Alice in one wing and several Bobs on the other wing, who act sequentially and independently of each other [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)]. This has been probed through the quantum violations of CHSH inequality, i.e., when each observer performs two dichotomic measurements. In the present study we investigate how many Bobs can sequentially demonstrate bipartite nonlocality with a single Alice in the above scenario when the number of measurement settings per observer is increased. It is shown that at most two Bobs can exhibit bipartite nonlocality with a single Alice using local realist inequalities with three as well as four dichotomic measurements per observer. We then conjecture that the above feature remains unchanged contingent upon using local realist inequalities with nnn dichotomic measurements per observer, where nnn is arbitrary. We further present the robustness of bipartite nonlocality sharing in the above scenario against the entanglement and mixedness of the shared state.
We aim to explore the scenario that a single Alice steers multiple Bobs by using weak measurements. The multiple violations of two different Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering inequalities were discussed. Based on unbiased inputs, a single Alice can steer two Bobs when the double violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt-like inequality is realized. Meanwhile, three Bobs can be steered by a single Alice when the triple violation of the three-settings linear steering inequality is observed. More importantly, we theoretically inferred the analytical formula of the maximal violation for the corresponding inequality, which applied an arbitrary two-qubit state.
Nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence (NAQC) or steerability of local quantum coherence is a strong nonlocal resource based on coherence complementarity relations. In this work, we provide an upper bound on the number of observers who can independently steer the coherence of the observer in the other wing in a scenario where half of an entangled pair of spin-12\frac{1}{2}21​ particles is shared between a single observer (Bob) in one wing and several observers (Alices) on the other, who can act sequentially and independently of each other. We consider one-parameter dichotomic POVMs for the Alices and mutually unbiased basis in which Bob measures coherence in the case of the maximally entangled bipartite qubit state. We show that not more than two Alices can exhibit NAQC when the l1{l}_{1}l1​ norm of coherence measure is probed, whereas for two other measures of coherence, only one Alice can reveal NAQC within the same framework.
Quantum correlation is a fundamental resource for various quantum information tasks. It is thus of importance to share the correlation to utilize it for many parties, but sharing quantum correlation among multiple parties is strictly restricted by the well-known monogamy relations. Nonetheless, this restriction can be relaxed when weak measurements are employed. Here, we experimentally demonstrate multiple-observer quantum steering by exploiting sequential weak measurements. Specifically, we observe simultaneous triple violations of the quantum steering inequality among four observers for a bipartite entangled system. Our results not only provide fundamental insights into the relation between quantum steering and measurement disturbance, but also suggest that quantum steering might be repeatably exploited to find applications to, for example, unbounded randomness certification and sharing secret keys among multiple parties simultaneously.