Robust one-sided self-testing of two-qubit states via quantum steering

Abstract

Entangled two-qubit states are the core building blocks for constructing quantum communication networks. Their accurate verification is crucial to the functioning of the networks, especially for untrusted networks. In this work we study the self-testing of two-qubit entangled states via steering inequalities, with robustness analysis against noise. More precisely, steering inequalities are constructed from the tilted Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality and its general form, to verify the general two-qubit entangled states. The study provides a good robustness bound, using both local extraction map and numerical semidefinite-programming methods. In particular, optimal local extraction maps are constructed in the analytical method, which yields the theoretical optimal robustness bound. To further improve the robustness of one-sided self-testing, we propose a family of three measurement settings steering inequalities. The result shows that three-setting steering inequality demonstrates an advantage over two-setting steering inequality on robust self-testing with noise. Moreover, to construct a practical verification protocol, we clarify the sample efficiency of our protocols in the one-sided device-independent scenario.

17pages, 6figures

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