Self-testing quantum states and measurements in the prepare-and-measure scenario

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  • Armin Tavakoli
  • Jȩdrzej Kaniewski
  • Tamás Vértesi
  • Denis Rosset
  • Nicolas Brunner

The goal of self-testing is to characterize an a priori unknown quantum system based solely on measurement statistics, i.e., using an uncharacterized measurement device. Here we develop self-testing methods for quantum prepare-and-measure experiments, thus not necessarily relying on entanglement and/or violation of a Bell inequality. We present noise-robust techniques for self-testing sets of quantum states and measurements, assuming an upper bound on the Hilbert space dimension. We discuss in detail the case of a 2→1 random access code with qubits, for which we provide analytically optimal self-tests. The simplicity and noise robustness of our methods should make them directly applicable to experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number062307
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume98
Issue number6
ISSN2469-9926
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2018

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