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Quantum technologies have seen a tremendous upsurge in recent years. Bell nonlocality, one of the most striking discoveries triggered by quantum theory, has been instrumental in this trend. It states that in some situations measurements of physical systems do not reveal pre-existing properties, but properties are created by the measurement itself.
List of contents
- I Classical Bell Nonlocality
- 1: First Encounter with Bell Nonlocality
- 2: Formalising Bell Nonlocality
- 3: Bell Nonlocality in Quantum Theory
- 4: Review of Bipartite Bell Scenarios
- 5: Multipartite Bell Nonlocality
- II Nonlocality as a Tool for Certification
- 6: The Set of Quantum Behaviors
- 7: Device-independent Self-Testing
- 8: Certifying Randomness
- III Foundational Insights from Nonlocality
- 9: Nolocality in the No-signaling Framework
- 10: The Quest for Device-Independent Quantum Principles
- 11: Signaling and Measurement Dependence
- 12: Epilogue
- Appendix A: History Museum
- Appendix B: Experimental Platforms: A Reading Guide
- Appendix C: Notions of Quantum Theory Used in This Book
- Appendix D: LV Models for Single Systems
- Appendix E: Basic Notions of Convex Optimisation
- Appendix F: Device-Independent Certification: History and Review
- Appendix G: Repository of Technicalities
About the author
Valerio Scarani was born in Milan in 1972. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1996 and received his doctorate in physics from the same institution in 2000. He then moved to the University of Geneva, where he started working on quantum information science, notably quantum cryptography and Bell nonlocality. In 2007 he joined the National University of Singapore, as a member of the Physics Department and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies.
Summary
Quantum technologies have seen a tremendous upsurge in recent years. Bell nonlocality, one of the most striking discoveries triggered by quantum theory, has been instrumental in this trend. It states that in some situations measurements of physical systems do not reveal pre-existing properties, but properties are created by the measurement itself.
