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José Mário da Silva

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Local models and Bell inequalities for the minimal triangle network

Nonlocal correlations created in networks with multiple independent sources enable surprising phenomena in quantum information and quantum foundations. The presence of independent sources, however, makes the analysis of network nonlocality challenging, and even in the simplest nontrivial scenarios a complete characterization is lacking. In this work we study one of the simplest of these scenarios, namely that of distributions invariant under permutations of parties in the minimal triangle network, which features no inputs and binary outcomes. We perform an exhaustive search for triangle-local models, and from it we infer analytic expressions for the boundaries of the set of distributions that admit such models, which we conjecture to be all the tight Bell inequalities for the scenario. Armed with them and with improved outer approximations of the set, we provide insights on the existence of a classical-quantum gap in the triangle network with binary outcomes.

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Numerically assisted determination of local models in network scenarios

Taking advantage of the fact that the cardinalities of hidden variables in network scenarios can be assumed to be finite without loss of generality, a numerical tool for finding explicit local models that reproduce a given statistical behaviour was developed. The numerical procedure was then validated using families of statistical behaviours for which the network-local boundary is known, in the bilocal scenario. Furthermore, the critical visibility for 3 notable distributions mixed with a uniform random noise is investigated in the triangle network without inputs. We provide conjectures for the critical visibilities of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) and W distributions (which are roots of 4th degree polynomials), as well as a lower bound estimate of the critical visibility of the Elegant Joint Measurement distribution. The developed codes and documentation are publicly available at github.com/mariofilho281/localmodels

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