Informationally restricted correlations: a general framework for classical and quantum systems

TL;DR

This paper develops a comprehensive framework to analyze classical and quantum correlations in prepare-and-measure experiments with informational restrictions, revealing new insights into mixed states and quantum communication resources.

Contribution

It introduces novel methods for characterizing correlations under informational constraints and demonstrates their applications in quantum resource detection and semi-device independent randomness generation.

Findings

Mixed states can outperform pure states in certain informationally restricted scenarios.

New device-independent witnesses for quantum information resources are derived.

The methods enable semi-device independent random number generation.

Abstract

We introduce new methods and tools to study and characterise classical and quantum correlations emerging from prepare-and-measure experiments with informationally restricted communication. We consider the most general kind of informationally restricted correlations, namely the ones formed when the sender is allowed to prepare statistical mixtures of mixed states, showing that contrary to what happens in Bell nonlocality, mixed states can outperform pure ones. We then leverage these tools to derive device-independent witnesses of the information content of quantum communication, witnesses for different quantum information resources, and demonstrate that these methods can be used to develop a new avenue for semi-device independent random number generators.