Bell's theorem is typically understood as the proof that quantum theory is incompatible with local hidden variable models. More generally, we can see the violation of a Bell inequality as witnessing the impossibility of explaining quantum correlations with classical causal models. The violation of a Bell inequality, however, does not exclude classical models where some level of measurement dependence is allowed, that is, the choice made by observers can be correlated with the source generating the systems to be measured. Here we show that the level of measurement dependence can be quantitatively upper bounded if we arrange the Bell test within a network. Furthermore, we also prove that these results can be adapted in order to derive non-linear Bell inequalities for a large class of causal networks and to identify quantumly realizable correlations which violate them.
翻译:Bell的理论通常被理解为量子理论与本地隐藏的变量模型不相容的证据。 更一般地说,我们可以看到,违反Bell的不平等证明不可能解释与古典因果模型的量子相关性。 但是,违反Bell的不平等并不排除允许某种程度的测量依赖性的传统模式,即观察员的选择可以与产生系统测量的来源相关联。 我们在这里表明,如果我们在一个网络内安排Bell测试,测量依赖性水平可以数量上上上上限。 此外,我们还证明,这些结果可以调整,以便为一大批因果网络获得非线性贝尔的不平等,并查明违反这些差异的可量化关联性。