
A non-local box is a virtual device that has the following property: given that Alice inputs a bit at her end of the device and that Bob does likewise, it produces two bits, one at Alice's end and one at Bob's end, such that the XOR of the outputs is equal to the AND of the inputs. This box, inspired from the CHSH inequality, was first proposed by Popescu and Rohrlich to examine the question: given that a maximally entangled pair of qubits is non-local, why is it not maximally non-local? We believe that understanding the power of this box will yield insight into the non-locality of quantum mechanics. It was shown recently by Cerf, Gisin, Massar and Popescu, that this imaginary device is able to simulate correlations from any measurement on a singlet state. Here, we show that the non-local box can in fact do much more: through the simulation of the magic square pseudo-telepathy game and the Mermin-GHZ pseudo-telepathy game, we show that the non-local box can simulate quantum correlations that no entangled pair of qubits can in a bipartite scenario and even in a multi-party scenario. Finally we show that a single non-local box cannot simulate all quantum correlations and propose a generalization for a multi-party non-local box. In particular, we show quantum correlations whose simulation requires an exponential amount of non-local boxes, in the number of maximally entangled qubit pairs.
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non-local boxes, Quantum Physics, Quantum information, entanglement simulation, Pseudo-telepathy, FOS: Physical sciences, Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.), Theoretical Computer Science, Entanglement, Entanglement simulation, Non-locality, quantum information, Non-local boxes, Quantum computation, pseudo-telepathy, entanglement, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), non-locality, Computer Science(all)
non-local boxes, Quantum Physics, Quantum information, entanglement simulation, Pseudo-telepathy, FOS: Physical sciences, Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.), Theoretical Computer Science, Entanglement, Entanglement simulation, Non-locality, quantum information, Non-local boxes, Quantum computation, pseudo-telepathy, entanglement, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), non-locality, Computer Science(all)
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