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Prepare-and-broadcast scenarios activate nonclassicality in resources that remain classical under standard prepare-and-measure or Bell tests.

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load-bearing objection The paper sets up a prepare-and-broadcast scenario that activates nonclassicality with multiple measurements per party while collapsing under shared randomness for single measurements.

arxiv 2606.28632 v1 pith:V4LVFPDO submitted 2026-06-26 quant-ph

The Prepare and Broadcast Scenario

Tailan S. Sarubi , Mois\'es Alves , Santiago Zamora , Vin\'icius F. Alves , A. de Oliveira Junior , Rafael Chaves This is my paper
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keywords prepare-and-broadcast scenariononclassicality activationBell inequalitiesquantum correlationsdimension restrictionprepare-and-measurebroadcasting transformationnonsignaling models
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The paper defines a dimension-restricted prepare-and-broadcast scenario in which a sender prepares a system that undergoes a broadcasting transformation before multiple receivers perform local measurements. It constructs hierarchies of classical, quantum, and nonsignaling correlation sets for this setup and develops methods to certify them via new Bell-like inequalities together with linear and semidefinite programming. When each receiver has only one measurement choice the three hierarchies coincide, but when multiple measurement choices are allowed the sets separate and nonclassical correlations appear that are invisible in ordinary prepare-and-measure or Bell scenarios. This matters because it supplies a concrete way to certify quantum resources that would otherwise be dismissed as classical.

Core claim

The prepare-and-broadcast scenario generalizes prepare-and-measure frameworks by inserting a broadcasting step before local measurements. Hierarchies of correlation sets are characterized, and the classical, quantum, and nonsignaling sets are shown to collapse when each party performs only one measurement. With multiple measurements the sets separate, so that resources admitting classical descriptions in standard settings can produce genuinely nonclassical correlations once the broadcast step is included.

What carries the argument

The dimension-restricted prepare-and-broadcast scenario, in which a prepared system is broadcast before local measurements by multiple receivers.

Load-bearing premise

The broadcasting transformation preserves the dimension restriction and the correlation sets are correctly captured by the defined classical, quantum, and nonsignalling hierarchies without additional hidden assumptions on the broadcast channel.

What would settle it

An explicit quantum state, broadcast map, and set of measurements that produce correlations outside the classical set in the PAB scenario but inside the classical set for the corresponding prepare-and-measure scenario would confirm activation; the absence of any such example after complete enumeration of low-dimensional cases would falsify it.

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If this is right

  • New families of Bell-like inequalities become available for certifying nonclassicality in broadcast settings.
  • Linear and semidefinite programming methods can decide membership in the classical, quantum, and nonsignaling sets for concrete correlations.
  • Resources that are classical in prepare-and-measure or Bell scenarios can exhibit nonclassical behavior once a broadcast step is added.
  • The hierarchy of models collapses to a single set whenever each receiver is restricted to one measurement choice.

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  • The activation effect may appear in other network scenarios that combine preparation with shared channels to multiple parties.
  • The same hierarchy techniques could be used to bound the power of broadcast-assisted communication protocols.
  • Experimental tests could focus on low-dimensional states already known to be classical in simpler scenarios but suspected to violate PAB inequalities.

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Summary. The paper introduces the dimension-restricted prepare-and-broadcast (PAB) scenario, in which a sender prepares a system that undergoes a broadcasting transformation before being measured locally by multiple receivers. It constructs explicit hierarchies of classical, quantum, and nonsignalling correlation sets, derives associated Bell-like inequalities together with LP and SDP relaxations for their certification, proves that the hierarchies collapse to a single set under shared randomness when each party performs only one measurement, and demonstrates activation of nonclassicality when multiple measurements per party are allowed, such that resources classical in standard prepare-and-measure or Bell scenarios become nonclassical in the PAB setting.

Significance. If the stated proofs and characterizations hold, the work supplies a new, operationally motivated scenario for studying nonclassicality activation together with concrete computational tools (LP/SDP hierarchies) and explicit collapse/activation theorems. The activation result is a clear strength, as it identifies genuinely nonclassical features invisible in the usual Bell or prepare-and-measure settings; the provision of both analytic proofs and numerical methods is also a positive feature.

minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract / §4] The abstract states that new families of Bell-like inequalities are derived, yet the main text does not appear to include an explicit example inequality together with its quantum violation and classical bound; adding one concrete inequality (with the corresponding SDP value) in §4 or §5 would strengthen the presentation of the certification methods.
  2. [§3] The definition of the broadcasting map in the dimension-restricted setting (likely around Eq. (3) or the start of §3) should explicitly state whether the output dimension is strictly preserved or allowed to increase; the current wording leaves open whether the restriction is on the input or on each output leg.
  3. [Figure 1 / §2] Figure 1 (or the equivalent diagram of the PAB scenario) would benefit from an explicit label indicating the shared-randomness variable λ and the local measurement choices x_i, to match the notation used in the correlation definitions later in the text.

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript, the recognition of the activation result as a strength, and the recommendation for minor revision. No major comments were raised in the report.

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full rationale

The paper introduces the dimension-restricted PAB scenario as a generalization, explicitly defines classical/quantum/nonsignalling correlation sets via standard hierarchies, and derives collapse (under shared randomness, single measurement) and activation results as theorems with SDP/LP certification methods. No self-definitional reductions, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided abstract or described construction; the activation claim rests on the new scenario's explicit models rather than prior author results or ansatze.

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We introduce the dimension-restricted prepare and broadcast (PAB) scenario, which generalizes standard prepare-and-measure frameworks. Here, the system prepared by a sender undergoes a broadcasting transformation before being locally measured by multiple receivers. We develop a hierarchy of classical, quantum, and nonsignalling models describing this scenario, characterize their corresponding correlation sets, and derive new families of Bell-like inequalities together with linear and semidefinite programming methods for their certification. First, assuming shared randomness, we prove that the hierarchy collapses into a single set whenever we consider only one measurement per party. Then, considering multiple possible measurements, we show that PAB scenarios allow the activation of nonclassicality, revealing genuinely nonclassical features in resources that admit classical descriptions in standard prepare-and-measure or Bell settings.

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