Characterizing the Performance of xor Games and the Shannon Capacity of Graphs

Ravishankar Ramanathan, Alastair Kay, Gláucia Murta, and Paweł Horodecki
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240401 – Published 8 December 2014

Abstract

In this Letter we give a set of necessary and sufficient conditions such that quantum players of a two-party xor game cannot perform any better than classical players. With any such game, we associate a graph and examine its zero-error communication capacity. This allows us to specify a broad new class of graphs for which the Shannon capacity can be calculated. The conditions also enable the parametrization of new families of games that have no quantum advantage for arbitrary input probability distributions, up to certain symmetries. In the future, these might be used in information-theoretic studies on reproducing the set of quantum nonlocal correlations.

  • Received 9 June 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.240401

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ravishankar Ramanathan1,2,*, Alastair Kay3, Gláucia Murta1,4, and Paweł Horodecki1,5

  • 1National Quantum Information Center of Gdańsk, 81-824 Sopot, Poland
  • 2University of Gdańsk, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
  • 3Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom
  • 4Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • 5Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Technical University of Gdańsk, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland

  • *ravishankar.r.10@gmail.com

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Vol. 113, Iss. 24 — 12 December 2014

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