Self-guided certification of nonlocality in quantum networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11451v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:18:11 GMT
• Title: Self-guided certification of nonlocality in quantum networks
• Abstract summary: Bell's theorem shows that quantum theory is incompatible with local hidden-imation models.<n>In recent years, research on nonlocality has moved beyond Bell's original scenario to quantum networks.<n>We introduce a self-guided protocol that variationally optimize each party's measurement to maximize the violation of a network Bell inequality.
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• Abstract: Bell's theorem shows that quantum theory is incompatible with local hidden-variable models. In recent years, research on nonlocality has moved beyond Bell's original scenario to quantum networks, where multiple independent sources distribute physical systems among distant parties, giving rise to correlations certified by nonlinear rather than standard Bell inequalities. Here, we introduce a self-guided protocol that variationally optimizes each party's measurement to maximize the violation of a network Bell inequality, with the violation evaluated efficiently at each step via local Pauli classical shadows and the search driven by the Complex Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (CSPSA) algorithm. Once converged, the measurement settings it returns are implemented directly and the inequality is re-evaluated without shadows. This two-stage structure separates a device-dependent search from a certificate that depends only on the observed statistics and on the causal structure of the network. We validate the protocol by numerically simulating it on the triangle network using the Wagon-Wheel inequality, recovering the violation achieved by the Fritz distribution, and extending the certification to non-maximally entangled and noisy states.

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