Quantum Entanglement: Novel construction, tighter bounds and upcoming experiments

Seminar
Quantum Optics Resnick seminar
QUEST Center event
Yes
Speaker
Eliahu Cohen, University of Bristol, UK
Date
03/01/2018 - 15:00 - 14:00Add to Calendar 2018-01-03 14:00:00 2018-01-03 15:00:00 Quantum Entanglement: Novel construction, tighter bounds and upcoming experiments   Quantum correlations are unique. On the one hand, they are stronger than those produced by any local hidden variables model. On the other hand, stronger-than-quantum correlations exist which are nevertheless non-signaling. It is therefore customarily believed that Nature is not more nonlocal than predicted by quantum mechanics due to some principle other than relativistic causality. In this talk I will prove that in an inherently indeterministic theory, relativistic causality does lead to strict bounds on quantum mechanical correlations. Without assuming quantum mechanics, I will discuss a general consequence of relativistic causality under indeterminism, named relativistic independence [1]. I will show that it induces a particular statistical structure, which gives rise to the state-of-the-art bounds on bipartite quantum correlations, as well as to new tighter bounds. Moreover, relativistic independence holds in general multipartite scenarios which leads to further bounds. These results show that theories with stronger-than-quantum correlations do not satisfy the relativistic independence property and are therefore incompatible with either indeterminism (in the sense of this work) or relativistic causality. Quantum mechanics employs specific uncertainty relations for preventing a clash between causality and nonlocality [2]. I will then characterize and restrict a general class of nonlocal hidden variables [3]. Other forthcoming applications to parafermions, continuous variables and complex systems will be briefly discussed. Finally, I will describe an upcoming series of experiments in Ottawa which I designed for testing the above results. These experiments are based on my previous demonstrations of sequential and protective measurements with the Turin group [4,5].   References [1] A. Carmi, E. Cohen, Relativistic causality limits nonlocality via indeterminism, under review in Nat. Commun. [2] Y. Aharonov, E. Cohen, F. Colombo, T. Landsberger, I. Sabadini, D.C. Struppa, J. Tollaksen, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, 6480-6485 (2017) [3] A. Carmi, E. Cohen, P. Skrzypczyk, S. Popescu, Nonlocal hidden variables are either pseudolocal or quasilocal, forthcoming [4] F. Piacentini, A. Avella, M.P. Levi, M. Gramegna, G. Brida, I.P. Degiovanni, E. Cohen, R. Lussana, F. Villa, A. Tosi, F. Zappa, M. Genovese, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 170402 (2016) [5] F. Piacentini, A. Avella, E. Rebufello, R. Lussana, F. Villa, A. Tosi, M. Gramegna, G. Brida, E. Cohen, L. Vaidman, I.P. Degiovanni, M. Genovese, Nat. Phys., doi:10.1038/nphys4223 (2017) Nano-center, 9th floor seminar room Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Nano-center, 9th floor seminar room
Abstract

 

Quantum correlations are unique. On the one hand, they are stronger than those produced by any local hidden variables model. On the other hand, stronger-than-quantum correlations exist which are nevertheless non-signaling. It is therefore customarily believed that Nature is not more nonlocal than predicted by quantum mechanics due to some principle other than relativistic causality.
In this talk I will prove that in an inherently indeterministic theory, relativistic causality does lead to strict bounds on quantum mechanical correlations. Without assuming quantum mechanics, I will discuss a general consequence of relativistic causality under indeterminism, named relativistic independence [1]. I will show that it induces a particular statistical structure, which gives rise to the state-of-the-art bounds on bipartite quantum correlations, as well as to new tighter bounds. Moreover, relativistic independence holds in general multipartite scenarios which leads to further bounds. These results show that theories with stronger-than-quantum correlations do not satisfy the relativistic independence property and are therefore incompatible with either indeterminism (in the sense of this work) or relativistic causality. Quantum mechanics employs specific uncertainty relations for preventing a clash between causality and nonlocality [2].
I will then characterize and restrict a general class of nonlocal hidden variables [3]. Other forthcoming applications to parafermions, continuous variables and complex systems will be briefly discussed.
Finally, I will describe an upcoming series of experiments in Ottawa which I designed for testing the above results. These experiments are based on my previous demonstrations of sequential and protective measurements with the Turin group [4,5].
 
References
[1] A. Carmi, E. Cohen, Relativistic causality limits nonlocality via indeterminism, under review in Nat. Commun.
[2] Y. Aharonov, E. Cohen, F. Colombo, T. Landsberger, I. Sabadini, D.C. Struppa, J. Tollaksen, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, 6480-6485 (2017)
[3] A. Carmi, E. Cohen, P. Skrzypczyk, S. Popescu, Nonlocal hidden variables are either pseudolocal or quasilocal, forthcoming
[4] F. Piacentini, A. Avella, M.P. Levi, M. Gramegna, G. Brida, I.P. Degiovanni, E. Cohen, R. Lussana, F. Villa, A. Tosi, F. Zappa, M. Genovese, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 170402 (2016)
[5] F. Piacentini, A. Avella, E. Rebufello, R. Lussana, F. Villa, A. Tosi, M. Gramegna, G. Brida, E. Cohen, L. Vaidman, I.P. Degiovanni, M. Genovese, Nat. Phys., doi:10.1038/nphys4223 (2017)

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