Uncertainty-Complementarity Balance as a General Constraint on Non-locality
arXiv:1808.06416
Abstract
We propose an uncertainty-complementarity balance relation and build quantitative connections among non-locality, complementarity, and uncertainty. Our balance relation, which is formulated in a theory-independent manner, states that for two measurements performed sequentially, the complementarity demonstrated in the first measurement in terms of disturbance is no greater than the uncertainty of the first measurement. Quantum theory respects our balance relation, from which the Tsirelson bound can be derived, up to an inessential assumption. In the simplest Bell scenario, we show that the bound of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality for a general non-local theory can be expressed as a function of the balance strength, a constance for the given theory. As an application, we derive the balance strength as well as the nonlocal bound of Popescu-Rohrlich box. Our results shed light on quantitative connections among three fundamental concepts, i.e., uncertainty, complementarity and non-locality.
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