NonlocalGameValue

NonlocalGameValue
Computes the maximum value of a two-player non-local game
Other toolboxes required	CVX
Related functions	BCSGameValue BellInequalityMax NPAHierarchy XORGameValue
Function category	Nonlocality and Bell inequalities
Usable within CVX?	no

NonlocalGameValue is a function that computes the maximum possible value of a given non-local game under either classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, or general no-signalling theories. In the classical and non-signalling cases, an exact value is computed, whereas the value computed in the quantum case is only an upper bound (found using the NPA hierarchy).

Syntax

• NGVAL = NonlocalGameValue(P,V)
• NGVAL = NonlocalGameValue(P,V,MTYPE)
• NGVAL = NonlocalGameValue(P,V,MTYPE,K)

Argument descriptions

• P: A probability matrix whose $(x,y)$-entry gives the probability that the referee asks Alice question $x$ and Bob question $y$.
• V: A 4-D array whose $(a,b,x,y)$-entry gives the value awarded to Alice and Bob if they reply with answers $(a,b)$ to questions $(x,y)$.
• MTYPE (optional, default 'classical'): A string indicating which type of theory should be used when computing the maximum value of the non-local game. Must be one of 'classical', 'quantum', or 'nosignal'. If MTYPE = 'quantum' then only an upper bound on the non-local game is computed, not necessarily the best upper bound (see the argument K below).
• K (optional, default 1): If MTYPE = 'quantum' then this is a non-negative integer indicating what level of the NPA hierarchy should be used when bounding the value of the non-local game. Higher values of K give better bounds, but require more memory and time. Alternatively, K can be a string of a form like '1+ab+aab', which indicates that an intermediate level of the hierarchy should be used, where this example uses all products of 1 measurement, all products of one Alice and one Bob measurement, and all products of two Alice and one Bob measurement. Use plus signs to separate the different categories of products, as above. The first character of this string should always be a number, indicating the base level to use. If MTYPE is anything other than 'quantum' then K has no effect.

Examples

The CHSH inequality

One formulation of the CHSH inequality is as follows:

• A referee asks Alice a question $x \in \{0,1\}$ and Bob a question $y \in \{0,1\}$.
• Alice and Bob then reply with answers $a \in \{0,1\}$ and $b \in \{0,1\}$ respectively.
• Alice and Bob win if and only if $a \oplus b = xy$.

The optimal probability with which Alice and Bob can win this game in classical, quantum, and no-signalling theories are as follows:

>> d = 2;
>> p = ones(d,d)/d^2;
>> V = zeros(d,d,d,d);
>> for a = 1:d
     for b = 1:d
       for x = 1:d
         for y = 1:d
           if(mod(a+b+x*y,d)==0)
             V(a,b,x,y) = 1;
           end
         end
       end
     end
   end
>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'classical')

ans =

    0.7500

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'quantum',1)

ans =

    0.8536

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'nosignal')

ans =

    1.0000

The CHSH-d inequality

A generalization of the CHSH inequality to higher dimensions is exactly as above, except each of $a,b,x,y$ are taken from the set $\{0,1,\ldots,d-1\}$. The following code computes the values of the CHSH-3 game:

>> d = 3;
>> p = ones(d,d)/d^2;
>> V = zeros(d,d,d,d);
>> for a = 1:d
     for b = 1:d
       for x = 1:d
         for y = 1:d
           if(mod(a+b+x*y,d)==0)
             V(a,b,x,y) = 1;
           end
         end
       end
     end
   end
>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'classical')

ans =

    0.6667

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'quantum',1)

ans =

    0.7182

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'quantum',2)

ans =

    0.7182

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'quantum','2+aab')

ans =

    0.7124

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'nosignal')

ans =

    1.0000

The Fortnow-Feige-Lovász game

The Fortnow-Feige-Lovász (FFL) game is well-known example of a non-local game for which perfect parallel repetition does not hold (i.e., quantum players playing two copies of the game in parallel can do better than they can by playing the games in succession).

The game has binary inputs and outputs, and is defined by the rule that the referee asks Alice and Bob the question pair $(x,y) = (0,0)$, $(0,1)$, or $(1,0)$ with probability $1/3$ each, and Alice and Bob win if and only if their answers satisfy $x \vee a \neq y \vee b$, where $\vee$ denotes the bitwise OR operation.

It is known that both the classical value and quantum value of this game equal $2/3$, which we can verify as follows:

>> p = [1 1;1 0]/3;
>> V = zeros(2,2,2,2);
>> for a = 1:2
       for b = 1:2
           for x = 1:2
               for y = 1:2
                   if(max(x,a) ~= max(y,b))
                       V(a,b,x,y) = 1;
                   end
               end
           end
       end
   end
>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'classical')

ans =

    0.6667

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'quantum',1)

ans =

    0.6667

Parallel repetition

In fact, we can even compute the classical and quantum values of two copies of the FFL game being run in parallel: we simply specify the REPT input argument to be 2:

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'classical',1,2)

ans =

    0.6667

>> NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'quantum',1,2)

ans =

    0.6667

Indeed, the fact that both of these values also equal $2/3$ is a known fact . Note that in the command NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'classical',1,2), the "1" that is provided as the value of K does not do anything: it is simply provided as a placeholder so that we can set REPT = 2 in the next input argument (e.g., we could have just as well entered the command NonlocalGameValue(p,V,'classical',9873,2), and the same calculation would have been carried out).

Source code

Click here to view this function's source code on github.

Notes

In practice, K probably can't be any larger than 4 when MTYPE = 'quantum', due to memory and time restrictions.