Parallel repetition of local simultaneous state discrimination

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Publication date 15-04-2025
Journal Quantum
Article number 1706
Volume | Issue number 9
Number of pages 34
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Local simultaneous state discrimination (LSSD) is a recently introduced problem in quantum information processing. Its classical version is a non-local game played by non-communicating players against a referee. Based on a known probability distribution, the referee generates one input for each of the players and keeps one secret value. The players have to guess the referee's value and win if they all do so. For this game, we investigate the advantage of no-signalling strategies over classical ones. We show numerically that for three players and binary values, no-signalling strategies cannot provide any improvement over classical ones. For a certain LSSD game based on a binary symmetric channel, we show that no-signalling strategies are strictly better when multiple simultaneous instances of the game are played. Good classical strategies for this game can be defined by codes, and good no-signalling strategies by list-decoding schemes. We expand this example game to a class of games defined by an arbitrary channel, and extend the idea of using codes and list decoding to define strategies for multiple simultaneous instances of these games. Finally, we give an expression for the limit of the exponent of the classical winning probability, and show that no-signalling strategies based on list-decoding schemes achieve this limit.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-04-15-1706 https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-04-15-1706
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