Experimental Test of the Principle of Tomographic Locality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07775v1
• Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:49:28 GMT
• Title: Experimental Test of the Principle of Tomographic Locality
• Authors: Tristan S. Lismer, Kaleb B. Felefele, Robert W. Spekkens, Kevin J. Resch,
• Abstract summary: We consider an experiment on the polarization degrees of freedom of a pair of photonic modes in a prepare-and-measure scenario.<n>We find no evidence of a violation of tomographic locality in the full quantum setting.<n>We also verify that if we restrict attention to those states and measurements that lie within the fragment described by quantum theory over the real field, then a clear signature of the failure of tomographic locality is observed.
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• Abstract: The principle of tomographic locality states that the operational state of a multipartite system can be fully characterized by the statistics obtained from measurements that are local to the individual subsystems. This property holds in quantum theory and features prominently in axiomatic reconstructions of the theory, where it serves to rule out a wide class of alternatives. For instance, quantum theory with Hilbert spaces defined over the real field (rather than the complex field) is an example of a theory that is ruled out in this fashion. Given its foundational importance, it is worthwhile to subject this principle to a direct experimental test. Specifically, we consider an experiment on the polarization degrees of freedom of a pair of photonic modes in a prepare-and-measure scenario and analyze the resulting data within the framework of generalized probabilistic theories. The signature of a failure of tomographic locality is that there are pairs of states on the bipartite system that can only be distinguished by the statistics they yield for non-separable measurements. In the full quantum setting, we find no evidence of a violation of tomographic locality. As a test of our analysis method, we also verify that if we restrict attention to those states and measurements that lie within the fragment described by quantum theory over the real field, then a clear signature of the failure of tomographic locality is observed.

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