Composable simultaneous purification: when all communication scenarios reduce to spatial correlations

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Authors: Matilde Baroni, Dominik Leichtle, Ivan Šupić, Damian Markham, Marco Túlio Quintino
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Abstract

Bell non-locality is a powerful framework to distinguish classical, quantum and post-quantum resources, which relies on non-communicating players. Under which restriction can we have the same separations, if we allow for communication? Non-signalling state assemblages, and the fact that they can always be simultaneously purified, turned out to be the key element to restrict the simplest bipartite communication scenario, the prepare-and-measure, to the standard bipartite Bell scenario. Yet, many distinctive features of quantum theory are genuinely multipartite and cannot be reduced to two-party behaviour. In this work we are interested in extending this simultaneous purification inspired result to all multipartite communication schemes. As a first step, we unify and extend the simultaneous purification result from states to instruments and super-instruments, which are composable structures, and open up the possibility to explore more complex communication scenarios. Our main contribution is to establish that arbitrary compositions of non-signalling assemblages cannot escape the standard spatial quantum Bell correlations set. As a consequence, any interactive quantum realization of correlations outside of this set must involve at least one signalling assemblage of quantum operations, even when the resulting correlations are non-signalling.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Mechanics and Applications Quantum Information and Cryptography Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Publication details

Journal / source
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Publication date
8 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint