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Asmita Kumari

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arXiv2025

Revealing hidden nonlocality and preparation contextuality for an arbitrary input Bell inequality

In recent years, the activation of hidden nonlocality for a mixed entangled state, admitting a local model, has gained considerable interest. In this paper, we study the activation of hidden nonlocality and preparation contextuality for a class of mixed entangled states, using local filtering operations. For our demonstration, we consider the two-party (Alice and Bob) one-way communication game known as parity oblivious random access code (PORAC). The quantum success probability of such $n$-bit PORAC solely depends on a Bell functional involving $2^{n-1}$ and $n$ dichotomic measurement settings for Alice and Bob, respectively. Such a Bell functional has two classical bounds, the local and the preparation non-contextual. We show that using local filtering operations on local mixed entangled state, the nonlocality can be revealed for any non-zero value of the mixedness parameter of the entangled state if $n\geq6$. Further, we show that the preparation contextuality, which is a comparatively weaker quantum correlation than nonlocality, can be revealed for any non-zero value of the mixedness parameter of the entangled state if $n\geq 4$.

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arXiv2023

Generalised quantum speed limit for arbitrary time-continuous evolution

The quantum speed limit describes how quickly a quantum system can evolve in time from an initial state to a final state under a given dynamics. Here, we derive a generalised quantum speed limit (GQSL) for arbitrary time-continuous evolution using the geometrical approach of quantum mechanics. The GQSL is applicable for quantum systems undergoing unitary, non-unitary, completely positive, non-completely positive and relativistic quantum dynamics. This reduces to the well known standard quantum speed limit (QSL), i.e., the Mandelstam-Tamm bound when the quantum system undergoes unitary time evolution. Using our formalism, we then obtain a quantum speed limit for non-Hermitian quantum systems. To illustrate our findings, we have estimated the quantum speed limit for a time-independent non-Hermitian system as well as for a time-dependent non-Hermitian system namely the Bethe-Lamb Hamiltonian for general two-level system.

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arXiv2023

Sharing preparation contextuality in Bell experiment by arbitrary pair of sequential observers

Based on the quantum violation of bipartite Bell inequality, it has been demonstrated that the sharing of non-locality can be demonstrated for at most two sequential observers at one end and at most one-pair of observers at both ends. In this work, we study the sharing of non-locality and preparation contextuality based on a bipartite Bell inequality, involving arbitrary $n$ measurements by one party and $2^{n-1}$ measurements by other party. Such a Bell inequality has two bounds, the local bound and the preparation non-contextual bound, which is smaller than the local bound. We show that while non-locality can be shared only by first pair of the sequential observers, the preparation contextuality can be shared by arbitrary pair of independent sequential observers at both ends.

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arXiv2023

Activation of hidden nonlocality using local filtering operations based on CGLMP inequality

Entanglement is necessary but not sufficient to demonstrate nonlocality as there exist local entangled states which do not violate any Bell inequality. In recent years, the activation of nonlocality (known as hidden nonlocality) by using local filtering operations has gained considerable interest. In the original proposal of Popescu [Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2619 (1995)] the hidden nonlocality was demonstrated for the Werner class of states in $d \geq 5$. In this paper, we demonstrate the hidden nonlocality for a class of mixed entangled states (convex mixture of a pure state and color noise) in an arbitrary $d$-dimensional system using suitable local filtering operations. For our demonstration, we consider the quantum violation of Collins-Linden-Gisin-Masser-Popescu (CGLMP) inequality which has hitherto not been considered for this purpose. We show that when the pure state in the aforementioned mixed entangled state is a maximally entangled state, the range of the mixing parameter for revealing hidden nonlocality increases with increasing the dimension of the system. Importantly, we find that for $d \geq 8$, hidden non-locality can be revealed for the whole range of mixing parameter. Further, by considering another pure state, the maximally CGLMP-violating state, we demonstrate the activation of nonlocality by using the same local filtering operation.

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arXiv2022

Local PT-symmetric evolutions on separable states and violation of no-signaling

We show that local PT-symmetric evolutions can lead to violation of the no-signaling principle for separable and even classically correlated bipartite shared quantum states. For classically correlated states, specially chosen PT-symmetric operations from a set of zero volume can also preserve the principle. The violations can be removed by using a CPT inner product instead of the traditional one.

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arXiv2021

Lüders bounds of Leggett-Garg inequalities, $\mathcal{PT}$- symmetric evolution and arrow-of-time

Leggett Garg inequalities (LGIs) test the incompatibility between the notion of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. For unitary dynamics, the optimal quantum violation of an LGI is constrained by the Lüders bound. However, the LGIs does not provide the necessary and sufficient for macrorealism. A suitably formulated set of no-signaling in time (NSIT) conditions along with the arrow-of-time (AOT) condition provides the same. In this paper, we study two formulations in the three-time LG scenario, viz., the standard LGIs and the recently formulated variant of LGIs when the system evolves under $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonian. We first demonstrate that the quantum violations of both forms of LGIs exceed their respective Lüders bounds and can even reach their algebraic maximum. We further show that for the case of standard LGI, the violation of Lüders bound can be obtained when both NSIT and AOT conditions are violated. Interestingly, for the case of a variant of LGI, for suitable choices of relevant parameters, the quantum violation can even be obtained when only the AOT is violated but all NSIT conditions are satisfied. This feature has not hitherto been demonstrated. We discuss the further implication of our study.

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arXiv2021

Quantum violations of Lüders bound Leggett-Garg inequalities for quantum channel

Leggett Garg inequalities (LGIs) provide an elegant way for probing the incompatibility between the notion of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. For unitary dynamics, the optimal quantum violation of a LGI is constrained by the Lüders bound. In this paper, we have studied two formulations of LGIs in a three-time LG scenarios, viz., the standard LGIs and third-order LGIs both for unbiased and biased measurement settings. We show that if the system evolves under a non-unitary quantum channel between two measurements, the quantum violations of both forms of LGIs exceed their respective Lüders bounds and can even reach their algebraic maximum in sharp measurement settings. We found that when the measurement is unsharp the quantum violations of both standard and third-order LGIs for non-unitary quantum channels can be obtained for the lower value of the unsharpness parameter compared to the unitary dynamics. We critically examined the violation of Lüders bound of LGIs and its relation to the violation of various no-signaling in time conditions, another formalism for testing macrorealism. It is shown that mere violations of no-signaling conditions are not enough to warrant the violation of standard LGIs, an interplay between the violations of various NSIT condition along with a threshold value play an important role. On the other hand violation of third-order LGI is obtained when the degree of violation of a specific no-signaling in time condition reaches a different threshold value.

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arXiv2021

Steering inequality for pairs of particle-number-superselection-rule restricted states

We consider violations of a Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt-type steering inequality for quantum states of systems of indistinguishable particles restricted by a particle-number-superselection rule. We check for violations in non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate and N00N states, by using two copies of the states for bypassing the superselection rule. The superselection rule prevents the states from maximally violating the steering inequality. But the steering inequality violations are higher than Bell inequality violations for the same states. This in particular implies, in certain cases, that visibilities of the steering inequality violations are higher than the same for Bell inequality violations, for admixtures with white noise. We also found that an increase in the number of particles in the non-interacting condensate states results in a decrease of the violation amount of the steering inequality.

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arXiv2020

L$\ddot{u}$der rule, von Neumann rule and Cirelson's bound of Bell CHSH inequality

In [PRL, 113, 050401 (2014)] the authors have shown that instead of L$\ddot{u}$der rule, if degeneracy breaking von Neumann projection rule is adopted for state reduction, the quantum value of three-time Leggett-Garg inequality can exceed it's L$\ddot{u}$ders bound. Such violation of L$\ddot{u}$ders bound may even approach algebraic maximum of the inequality in the asymptotic limit of system size. They also claim that for Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality such violation of L$\ddot{u}$ders bound (known as Cirelson's bound) cannot be obtained even when the measurement is performed sequentially first by Alice followed by Bob. In this paper, we have shown that if von Neumann projection rule is used, quantum bound of CHSH inequality exceeds it's Cirelson's bound and may also reach its algebraic maximum four. This thus provide a strong objection regarding the viability of von Neumann rule as a valid state reduction rule. Further, we pointed out that the violation of Cirelson's bound occurs due to the injection of additional quantum non-locality by the act of implementing von Neumann measurement rule.

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arXiv2020

Swapping Intra-photon entanglement to Inter-photon entanglement using linear optical devices

We propose a curious protocol for swapping the intra-photon entanglement between path and polarization degrees of freedom of a single photon to inter-photon entanglement between two spatially separated photons which have never interacted. This is accomplished by using an experimental setup consisting of three suitable Mach-Zehnder interferometers along with number of beam splitters, polarization rotators and detectors. Using the same setup, we have also demonstrated an interesting quantum state transfer protocol, symmetric between Alice and Bob. Importantly, the Bell-basis discrimination is not required in both the swapping and state transfer protocols. Our proposal can be implemented using linear optical devices.

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arXiv2020

Robustness of Higher Dimensional Nonlocality against dual noise and sequential measurements

Robustness in the violation of Collins-Linden-Gisin-Masser-Popescu (CGLMP) inequality is investigated from the dual perspective of noise in measurements as well as in states. To quantify it, we introduce a quantity called the area of nonlocal region which reveals a dimensional advantage. Specifically, we report that with the increase of dimension, the maximally violating states show a greater enhancement in the area of nonlocal region in comparison to the maximally entangled states and the scaling of the increment, in this case, grows faster than visibility. Moreover, we examine the robustness in the sequential violation of CGLMP inequality using weak measurements and find that even for higher dimensions, two observers showing a simultaneous violation of the CGLMP inequality as obtained for two-qubit states persists. We notice that the complementarity between information gain and disturbance by measurements is manifested by the decrease of the visibility in the first round and the increase of the same in the second round with dimensions. Furthermore, the amount of white noise that can be added to a maximally entangled state so that it gives two rounds of the violation, decreases with the dimension, while the same does not appreciably change for the maximally violating states.

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arXiv2020

Local preservation of no-signaling in multiparty PT-symmetric evolutions

Violation of the no-signaling principle may occur in PT-symmetric evolutions, that is, evolutions that stem from Hamiltonians that are symmetric with respect to parity and time-reversal, of bipartite entangled states. The violation can be avoided by using a non-conventional inner product. We show that even within the formalism that utilizes the conventional Dirac inner product between physical state vectors, it is possible to obtain instances of local preservation of the no-signaling principle for evolutions corresponding to PT-symmetric non-hermitian Hamiltonians with real eigenvalues, of multiparty entangled states, whose bipartite versions still violate the principle. The phenomenon can be witnessed already by using the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state. Interestingly, the generalized W states do not support such a local preservation of no-signaling.

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arXiv2019

Sharing non-locality and non-trivial preparation contextuality using same family of Bell expressions

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)] the sharing of non-locality by multiple observers was demonstrated through the quantum violation of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Halt inequality. In this paper we provide a scheme for sharing of non-locality and non-trivial preparation contextuality sequentially through the quantum violation of a family of Bell's inequalities where Alice and Bob perform $2^{n-1}$ and $n$ numbers of measurements of dichotomic observables respectively. For this, we consider that Alice always performs projective measurement and multiple Bobs sequentially perform unsharp measurement. We show that when Bob's choices of measurement settings are unbiased, maximum two Bobs can sequentially share the non-locality through the violation of our inequalities. Further, we show that the local bound of the aforementioned family of inequalities gets reduced if non-trivial preparation non-contextuality assumptions are further imposed. Then there is a chance to share the non-trivial preparation contextuality for more number of Bobs than that of non-locality. We demonstrate that the non-trivial preparation contextuality can be sequentially shared by arbitrary numbers of Bob for unbiased choices of his measurement settings.

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arXiv2018

CHSH inequalities with appropriate response function for POVM and their quantum violation

In the derivation of local bound of a Bell's inequality, the response functions corresponding to the different outcomes of measurements are fixed by the relevant hidden variables irrespective of the fact if the measurement is unsharp. In the context of a recent result by Spekkens that tells even in an ontological model the unsharp observable cannot be assigned a deterministic response function, we derive a modified local bound of CHSH inequality in unsharp measurement scenario. We consider response function for a given POVM which is determined by the response functions of the relevant projectors appearing in its spectral representation. In this scenario, the local bound of CHSH inequality is found to be dependent on the unsharpness parameter. This then enables us to show that the quantum violation of CHSH inequality for unbiased spin-POVMs occurs whenever there is violation for their sharp counterpart. For the case of biased POVMs, it is shown that the quantum violation of CHSH inequality can be obtained for ranges of sharpness parameter for which no violation obtained using standard local bound of CHSH inequality.

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arXiv2018

Faithful Pointer for qubit measurement

In the context of von Neumann projective measurement scenario for a qubit system, it is widely believed that the mutual orthogonality between the post-interaction pointer states is the sufficient condition for achieving the ideal measurement situation. However, for experimentally verifying the observable probabilities, the real space distinction between the pointer distributions corresponding to post-interaction pointer states play crucial role. It is implicitly assumed that mutual orthogonality ensures the support between the post-interaction pointer distributions to be disjoint. We point out that mutual orthogonality (formal idealness) does \emph{not} necessarily imply the real space distinguishability (operational idealness), but converse is true. In fact, for the commonly referred Gaussian wavefunction, it is possible to obtain a measurement situation which is formally ideal but fully nonideal operationally. In this paper, we derive a class of pointer states, that we call faithful pointers, for which the degree of formal (non)idealness is equal to the operational (non)idealness. In other words, for the faithful pointers, if a measurement situation is formally ideal then it is operationally ideal and vice versa.

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arXiv2018

On the violation of L$\ddot{u}$ders bound of macrorealist and noncontextual inequalities

In a recent Letter [PRL, 113, 050401 (2014)], it is shown that the quantum violation of a three-time Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) for a dichotomic qutrit system can exceed the L$\ddot{u}$ders bound. This is obtained by using a degeneracy breaking projective measurement rule which the authors termed as von Neumann rule. Such violation can even approach the algebraic maximum in the asymptotic limit of system size. In this paper, we question the implication of such violation of L$\ddot{u}$ders bound and its conceptual relevance in LG scenario. We note an important fact that the basis for implementing the proposed von Neumann rule for a degenerate observable is non-unique and show that the violation of L$\ddot{u}$ders bound is crucially dependent on the choice of basis. Further, we demonstrate the violation of L$\ddot{u}$ders bound of the simplest non-contextual inequality (NCI) which is in contrast to the reasoning provided in the aforementioned Letter. This result further raises the doubts regarding the validity of the proposed rule as a viable projective measurement. We discuss the relevance of such results with respect to the usual quantum violation of LGI and NCI.

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arXiv2018

Sub-Planck structure in a mixed state

The persistence of sub-Planck structure in phase space with loss of coherence is demonstrated in a mixed state, which comprises two terms in the density matrix. Its utility in carrying out Heisenberg-limited measurement and quantum parameter estimation have been shown. It is also shown that the mixed state performs equally well as the compass state for carrying out precision measurements. The advantage of using mixed state relies on the fact that such a state can be easier to prepare and may appear from pure states after partial loss of coherence. We explicate the effect of environment on these sub-Planck structures in the mixed state and estimates the time scale of complete decoherence.

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arXiv2017

Joint weak value for all order coupling using continuous variable and qubit probe

The notion of weak measurement in quantum mechanics has gained a significant and wide interest in realizing apparently counterintuitive quantum effects. In recent times, several theoretical and experimental works have been reported for demonstrating the joint weak value of two observables where the coupling strength is restricted to the second order. In this paper, we extend such a formulation by providing a complete treatment of joint weak measurement scenario for all-order-coupling for the observable satisfying $A^2=\mathbb{I}$ and $A^2=A$, which allows us to reveal several hitherto unexplored features. By considering the probe state to be discrete as well as continuous variable, we demonstrate how the joint weak value can be inferred for any given strength of the coupling. A particularly interesting result we pointed out that even if the initial pointer state is uncorrelated, the single pointer displacement can provide the information about the joint weak value, if at least third order of the coupling is taken into account. As an application of our scheme, we provide an all-order-coupling treatment of the well-known Hardy paradox by considering the continuous as well as discrete meter states and show how the negative joint weak probabilities emerge in the quantum paradoxes at the weak coupling limit.

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