No signaling, entanglement breaking, and localizability in bipartite channels

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Jan 7;106(1):010501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.010501. Epub 2011 Jan 4.

Abstract

A bipartite quantum channel represents the interaction between systems, generally allowing for the exchange of information. A special class of bipartite channels is the no-signaling ones, which do not allow for communication. Piani et al. [Phys. Rev. A 74, 012305 (2006)] conjectured that all no-signaling channels are mixtures of entanglement breaking and localizable channels, which require only local operations and entanglement. Here we provide the general realization scheme, and give a counterexample to the conjecture, achieving no-signaling superquantum correlations while preserving entanglement.