Physics Asked on September 26, 2021
Could you give me an example of a measurement which is LOCC (Local Operations Classical Communication) but not separable? Or better, one which is separable but not LOCC?
Given an ensable of states $rho^{N}$, a separable measurement on it is a POVM $lbrace N_i rbrace$ where the effects $N_i$ are all of the form $N_i = A_i^{1} otimes A_i^{2} otimes dots otimes A_i^{N}$. So they are a separable product of effects acting on each state $rho$ in $rho^{N}$.
Is every separable measurement LOCC?
There isn't: Any LOCC measurement is also a separable measurement. This is easy to see: Alice's first measurement has POVM elements $A_{i_1}otimes I$. Alice then communicates her outcome $i_1$ to Bob. Bob's subsequent measurement has elements $Iotimes A^{i_1}_{i_2}$, where $i_2$ enumerates Bob's outcomes, and $A^{i_1}$ indicates that Bob's POVM can depend on Alice's outcome. The total POVM of both has then elements $$ N_{i_1,i_2}=A_{i_1}otimes B^{i_1}_{i_2} , $$ which is a separable POVM with double index ${i_1,i_2}$. Clearly, this can be iterated to an arbitrary number of rounds, and generalized to an arbitrary number of parties, and will always have POVM elements of the form $N_i=A_iotimes B_iotimes cdots$.
Conversely, not every separable POVM can be written as a LOCC POVM. A counterexample is given in Bennett et al., Quantum Nonlocality without Entanglement, Phys. Rev. A. 59, 1070 (1999).
Answered by Norbert Schuch on September 26, 2021
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