Temporal correlations and device-independent randomness

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Quantum Information Processing

Abstract

Leggett–Garg inequalities (LGI) are constraints on certain combinations of temporal correlations obtained by measuring one and the same system at two different instants of time. The usual derivations of LGI assume macroscopic realism per se and noninvasive measurability. We derive these inequalities under a different set of assumptions, namely the assumptions of predictability and no signaling in time (NSIT). As a novel implication of this derivation, we find application of LGI in randomness certification. It turns out that randomness can be certified from temporal correlations, even without knowing the details of the experimental devices, provided the observed correlations violate LGI but satisfy NSIT.

First Page

2993

Last Page

3004

DOI

10.1007/s11128-016-1321-0

Publication Date

7-1-2016

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