Hierarchy of hidden nonlocality: A genuine activation of Incompletability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00797v1
• Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:26:35 GMT
• Title: Hierarchy of hidden nonlocality: A genuine activation of Incompletability
• Abstract summary: We investigate the role of incompletability in local state discrimination.<n>We show that activation of incompletability necessarily implies activation of nonlocality.<n>Our results uncover a fundamental interplay among local distinguishability, incompletability, coherence, and nonlocality.
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• Abstract: Quantum nonlocality admits several operational manifestations, one of which emerges from sets of orthogonal quantum states that cannot be perfectly distinguished by local operations and classical communication (LOCC). Such sets are regarded as nonlocal because their perfect discrimination requires global measurements. In contrast, sets that are perfectly distinguishable by LOCC are generally considered locally accessible and operationally classical. In this work, we investigate the role of incompletability in local state discrimination and introduce the notion of \emph{activation of incompletability}. Specifically, we demonstrate the existence of orthogonal sets that are initially perfectly distinguishable by LOCC and free from local redundancy, but which can be transformed via LOCC into strictly incompletable sets. We prove that activation of incompletability necessarily implies activation of nonlocality, whereas the converse fails in general, thereby establishing a hierarchy between the two activation phenomena. Furthermore, within the framework of local incoherent operations and classical communication (LICC), we show that any set whose incompletability can be activated can nevertheless be extended to a complete orthonormal basis of the Hilbert space, although the resulting completed basis is no longer perfectly distinguishable by LOCC. Our results uncover a fundamental interplay among local distinguishability, incompletability, coherence, and nonlocality, and provide new insight into the structure of locally accessible quantum information.

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