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No-signalling attacks and implications for (quantum) nonlocality distillation

Salwey, Leonhard Benno ; Wolf, Stefan (Dir.) ; Brassard, Gilles (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015INFO008.

The phenomenon of nonlocality, which can arise when entangled quantum systems are suitably measured, is perhaps one of the most puzzling features of quantum theory to the philosophical mind. It implies that these measurement statistics cannot be explained by hidden variables, as requested by Einstein, and it thus suggests that our universe may not be, in principle, a well-determined entity...