Published September 2009 | Version public
Journal Article

Relaxed uncertainty relations and information processing

Abstract

We consider a range of "theories'' that violate the uncertainty relation for anti-commuting observables derived. We first show that Tsirelson's bound for the CHSH inequality can be derived from this uncertainty relation, and that relaxing this relation allows for non-local correlations that are stronger than what can be obtained in quantum mechanics. We continue to construct a hierarchy of related non-signaling theories, and show that on one hand they admit superstrong random access encodings and exponential savings for a particular communication problem, while on the other hand it becomes much harder in these theories to learn a state. We show that the existence of these effects stems from the absence of certain constraints on the expectation values of commuting measurements from our non-signaling theories that are present in quantum theory.

Additional Information

© 2009 Rinton Press. Received November 27, 2008. Revised May 5, 2009. We are indebted to Wim van Dam for useful discussions. This work was supported by NSF grant number PHY-04056720.

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15737
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CaltechAUTHORS:20090910-134203309

Funding

NSF
PHY-04056720

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2009-09-15
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