Two convergent NPA-like hierarchies for the quantum bilocal scenario

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Authors: Marc-Olivier Renou, Xiangling Xu, Laurens T. Ligthart 

Abstract: Characterising the correlations that arise when locally measuring a single joint quantum system is one of the main problems of quantum information theory. The seminal work [M. Navascu'es et al, NJP 10,7,073013 (2008)], known as the NPA hierarchy, reformulated this question as a polynomial optimisation problem over noncommutative variables and proposed a convergent hierarchy of necessary conditions, each testable using semidefinite programming. More recently, the problem of characterising the quantum network correlations, which arise when locally measuring several independent quantum systems distributed in a network, has received considerable interest. Several generalisations of the NPA hierarchy, such as the Scalar Extension [Pozas-Kerstjens emph{et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 140503 (2019)], were introduced while their converging sets remain unknown. In this work, we introduce a new hierarchy and characterise its convergence in the case of the simplest network, the bilocal scenario, and explore its relations with the known generalisations. We also provide arguments against a commutator-based definition of the set of quantum correlations in networks.

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