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Acta Physica Slovaca 62, No.4, 347 – 409 (2012) (64 pages)
THE DEVICE-INDEPENDENT OUTLOOK ON QUANTUM PHYSICS Valerio Scarani Centre for Quantum Technologies & Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore Full text: ::pdf :: (Received 17 January 2013, accepted 11 February 2013, in final form March 20 2013) Abstract: This text is an introduction to an operational outlook on Bell inequalities, which has been very fruitful in the past few years. It has lead to the recognition that Bell tests have their own place in applied quantum technologies, because they quantify non-classicality in a device-independent way, that is, without any need to describe the degrees of freedom under study and the measurements that are performed. At the more fundamental level, the same device-independent outlook has allowed the falsification of several other alternative models that could hope to reproduce the observed statistics while keeping some classical features that quantum theory denies; and it has shed new light on the long-standing quest for deriving quantum theory from physical principles. DOI: 10.2478/v10155-012-0003-4 PACS: 03.65.Ud, 03.65.-w, 03.67.-a Keywords: Quantum information, Bell inequalities, Device independent certification, Nonlocality, Violation of local causality |
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