The type-independent resource theory of local operations and shared randomness

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive resource theory framework for nonsignaling resources in quantum information, allowing conversion between resource types and unifying various nonlocality and quantum correlation concepts.

Contribution

It develops a unifying LOSR-based resource theory that encompasses all nonsignaling resources and their associated games, generalizing previous results and enabling measurement-device-independent characterization.

Findings

Semiquantum games fully characterize LOSR nonclassicality of all resources.

Resources can be converted into any other type, including game strategies.

The framework reduces assumptions needed for nonclassicality characterization.

Abstract

In space-like separated experiments and other scenarios where multiple parties share a classical common cause but no cause-effect relations, quantum theory allows a variety of nonsignaling resources which are useful for distributed quantum information processing. These include quantum states, nonlocal boxes, steering assemblages, teleportages, channel steering assemblages, and so on. Such resources are often studied using nonlocal games, semiquantum games, entanglement-witnesses, teleportation experiments, and similar tasks. We introduce a unifying framework which subsumes the full range of nonsignaling resources, as well as the games and experiments which probe them, into a common resource theory: that of local operations and shared randomness (LOSR). Crucially, we allow these LOSR operations to locally change the type of a resource, so that players can convert resources of any type into resources of any other type, and in particular into strategies for the specific type of game they are playing. We then prove several theorems relating resources and games of different types. These theorems generalize a number of seminal results from the literature, and can be applied to lessen the assumptions needed to characterize the nonclassicality of resources. As just one example, we prove that semiquantum games are able to perfectly characterize the LOSR nonclassicality of every resource of any type (not just quantum states, as was previously shown). As a consequence, we show that any resource can be characterized in a measurement-device-independent manner.