Two Types of Trilocality of Probability and Correlation Tensors

Entropy (Basel). 2023 Feb 1;25(2):273. doi: 10.3390/e25020273.

Abstract

In this work, we discuss two types of trilocality of probability tensors (PTs) P=〚P(a1a2a3)〛 over an outcome set Ω3 and correlation tensors (CTs) P=〚P(a1a2a3|x1x2x3)〛 over an outcome-input set Δ3 based on a triangle network and described by continuous (integral) and discrete (sum) trilocal hidden variable models (C-triLHVMs and D-triLHVMs). We say that a PT (or CT) P is C-trilocal (resp. D-trilocal) if it can be described by a C-triLHVM (resp. D-triLHVM). It is proved that a PT (resp. CT) is D-trilocal if and only if it can be realized in a triangle network by three shared separable states and a local POVM (resp. a set of local POVMs) performed at each node; a CT is C-trilocal (resp. D-trilocal) if and only if it can be written as a convex combination of the product deterministic CTs with a C-trilocal (resp. D-trilocal) PT as a coefficient tensor. Some properties of the sets consisting of C-trilocal and D-trilocal PTs (resp. C-trilocal and D-trilocal CTs) are proved, including their path-connectedness and partial star-convexity.

Keywords: C-trilocality; D-trilocality; bell locality; correlation tensor; probability tensor.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11871318, 12271325) and the Special Plan for Young Top-Notch Talent of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 1503070117).