Abstract
In a no-signaling world, the outputs of a nonlocal box cannot be completely predetermined, a feature that is exploited in many quantum information protocols exploiting nonlocality, such as device-independent randomness generation and quantum key distribution. This relation between nonlocality and randomness can be formally quantified through the min-entropy, a measure of the unpredictability of the outputs that holds conditioned on the knowledge of any adversary that is limited only by the no-signaling principle. This quantity can easily be computed for the noisy Popescu-Rohrlich (PR) box, the paradigmatic example of nonlocality. In this paper, we consider the min-entropy associated to several copies of noisy PR boxes. In the case where noisy PR boxes are implemented using noncommunicating pairs of devices, it is known that each PR box behaves as an independent biased coin: the min-entropy per PR box is constant with the number of copies. We show that this does not hold in more general scenarios where several noisy PR boxes are implemented from a single pair of devices, either used sequentially times or producing outcome bits in a single run. In this case, the min-entropy per PR box is smaller than the min-entropy of a single PR box, and it decreases as the number of copies increases.
1 More- Received 16 July 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.042130
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