On the computational complexity of detecting possibilistic locality
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Author(s)
Simmons, A
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The proofs of quantum nonlocality due to Greenberger, Horne and Zeilinger and due to Hardy are qualitatively different from that of Bell insofar as they rely only on a consideration of whether events are possible or impossible, rather than relying on specific experimental probabilities. We consider the scenario of a bipartite nonlocality experiment, in which two separated experimenters each have access to some measurements they can perform on a system. In a physical theory, some outcomes of this experiment will be labelled possible, others impossible, and an assignment of the values 0 (impossible) and 1 (possible) to these different outcomes forms a table of possibilities. Here, we consider the computational task of determining whether or not a given table of possibilities constitutes a departure from possibilistic local realism. By considering the case in which one party has access to measurements with two outcomes and the other three, it is possible to see at exactly which point this task becomes computationally difficult.
Date Issued
2018-02-01
Date Acceptance
2017-11-15
Citation
Journal of Logic and Computation, 2018, 28 (1), pp.203-217
ISSN
0955-792X
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Start Page
203
End Page
217
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Logic and Computation
Volume
28
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subjects
quant-ph
01 Mathematical Sciences
08 Information And Computing Sciences
22 Philosophy And Religious Studies
Computation Theory & Mathematics
Publication Status
Published