Activation of post-quantumness in bipartite generalised EPR scenarios

Abstract

In a standard bipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) scenario, Alice and Bob share a system prepared in an entangled state and Alice performs local measurements. One possible generalisation of this set-up is to allow Bob to also locally process his subsystem. Then, correlations generated in such generalised EPR scenarios are examples of non-signalling bipartite resources, called assemblages, that can exhibit post-quantum behavior, i.e., cannot be generated using solely quantum systems. There exist assemblages that, despite being post-quantum resources, can only generate quantum correlations in bipartite Bell-type scenarios. Here, we present a protocol for activation of post-quantumness in bipartite generalised EPR scenarios such as the so-called Bob-with-input, measurement-device-independent, and channel EPR scenarios. By designing a protocol that involves distributing the assemblages in a larger network, we derive tailored Bell inequalities which can be violated beyond their quantum bound in this new set-up. Our results show that in all of the above generalised scenarios, the post-quantumness of the assemblages can be witnessed at the level of correlations they produce.