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This research resolves a longstanding open problem in quantum nonlocality by demonstrating that maximally entangled states are not sufficient to achieve perfect strategies for all bipartite pseudo-telepathic games. The authors provide a specific counterexample using an inner product game, establishing the necessity of more complex entanglement structures for certain scenarios. This finding advances fundamental understanding within quantum information theory and has implications for device-independent cryptography protocols relying on nonlocal correlations.
Maximally entangled states are not complete for pseudo-telepathy
arXiv:2608.05378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One of the longstanding open problems in quantum nonlocality is to determine if maximally entangled states are complete for bipartite pseudo-telepathic games: namely, if every nonlocal game which admits a perfect entangled strategy admits such a strategy which uses a maximally entangled state. We exhibit a counterexample to this in the form of a bipartite nonlocal game with input sets of size 4 and 3 and output sets both of size 6. This game is part of a new class of nonlocal games, which we call inner product games, which could be of independent interest.
Abstract:One of the longstanding open problems in quantum nonlocality is to determine if maximally entangled states are complete for bipartite pseudo-telepathic games: namely, if every nonlocal game which admits a perfect entangled strategy admits such a strategy which uses a maximally entangled state. We exhibit a counterexample to this in the form of a bipartite nonlocal game with input sets of size 4 and 3 and output sets both of size 6. This game is part of a new class of nonlocal games, which we call inner product games, which could be of independent interest.
arXiv:2608.05378 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2608.05378v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
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