Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h
Place: Seminar Room
SEMINAR: A hierarchical framework for generalizations of measurement incompatibility and its applications in certifying number of measurements
The incompatibility of quantum measurements—i.e., the fact that certain observable quantities cannot be measured jointly—is widely regarded as a distinctive quantum feature with important implications for both the foundations and applications of quantum theory. While the standard notion of measurement incompatibility has been a focus of attention since the inception of quantum theory, its generalizations—such as measurement simulability, n-wise incompatibility, and multi-copy incompatibility—have only recently been proposed. In this talk, I will argue that all these generalizations reflect different ways of addressing the same question: how many distinct measurements are genuinely contained in a given measurement device? I will show that these notions differ not only in their operational meaning but also mathematically, in terms of the sets of measurement assemblages they characterize. I will then present how the relationships between these different generalizations can be fully resolved by establishing a strict hierarchy among them. Furthermore, I will discuss how to certify, in a device- and theory-independent manner, any number n >= 2 of measurements in a Bell experiment. More specifically, I will show that there exist quantum correlations obtained from performing n dichotomic quantum measurements in a bipartite Bell scenario that cannot be reproduced by (n−1) measurements in any no-signaling theory. In other words, reproducing the predictions of quantum theory requires an unbounded number of measurements in any no-signaling framework.
The talk is based on these two works:
Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h
Place: Seminar Room
SEMINAR: A hierarchical framework for generalizations of measurement incompatibility and its applications in certifying number of measurements
The incompatibility of quantum measurements—i.e., the fact that certain observable quantities cannot be measured jointly—is widely regarded as a distinctive quantum feature with important implications for both the foundations and applications of quantum theory. While the standard notion of measurement incompatibility has been a focus of attention since the inception of quantum theory, its generalizations—such as measurement simulability, n-wise incompatibility, and multi-copy incompatibility—have only recently been proposed. In this talk, I will argue that all these generalizations reflect different ways of addressing the same question: how many distinct measurements are genuinely contained in a given measurement device? I will show that these notions differ not only in their operational meaning but also mathematically, in terms of the sets of measurement assemblages they characterize. I will then present how the relationships between these different generalizations can be fully resolved by establishing a strict hierarchy among them. Furthermore, I will discuss how to certify, in a device- and theory-independent manner, any number n >= 2 of measurements in a Bell experiment. More specifically, I will show that there exist quantum correlations obtained from performing n dichotomic quantum measurements in a bipartite Bell scenario that cannot be reproduced by (n−1) measurements in any no-signaling theory. In other words, reproducing the predictions of quantum theory requires an unbounded number of measurements in any no-signaling framework.
The talk is based on these two works: