The Elegant Joint Measurement is Non-Classical in the Triangle Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15143v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:03:11 GMT
• Title: The Elegant Joint Measurement is Non-Classical in the Triangle Network
• Authors: Victor Gitton, Renato Renner,
• Abstract summary: When quantum systems are shared by parties in a network, the measurement outcomes of the parties can exhibit non-classical correlations.<n>We show how to combine inflation symmetry reductions and Frank-Wolfe algorithms for large-scale optimization.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: When quantum systems are shared by multiple parties in a network, the measurement outcomes of the parties can exhibit non-classical correlations, i.e., correlations that cannot be obtained if the parties shared classical systems instead. This phenomenon is known as quantum nonlocality and is typically demonstrated in the Bell scenario. However, the Bell scenario is fundamentally simpler to investigate than general networks, since the latter come with non-convex optimization problems that are often intractable. The triangle network is one of the simplest networks exhibiting this non-convexity due to the presence of three independent sources. Although some special cases of quantum nonlocality are known in the triangle network, general methods to certify classical incompatibility are still lacking, which suggests that our understanding of networks is still rather limited. For instance, the Elegant Joint Measurement (EJM) distribution is a simple and highly-symmetric outcome distribution that can be obtained with quantum systems and measurements in the triangle network. This distribution was conjectured to be non-classical eight years ago. In this article, we provide the first proof of non-classicality of the EJM distribution. To do so, we show how to combine inflation, a causal inference technique, with powerful symmetry reductions and Frank-Wolfe algorithms for large-scale optimization. We then use these methods to obtain computer-assisted proofs of non-classicality in exact arithmetic.

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