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Quantum Foundations
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Quantum validity of the Zhang–Yeung inequality
Does the four-party Zhang–Yeung inequality hold for the von Neumann entropies of every finite-dimensional quantum state?
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Many-copy Bell nonlocality of every entangled state
Does every entangled bipartite state become Bell nonlocal under collective local measurements on some finite number of copies?
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Wigner entropy conjecture
Does every finite-energy single-mode state with a nonnegative Wigner function have Wigner entropy at least \(1+\ln\pi\)?
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POVM steering threshold of higher-dimensional Werner states
What is the exact steering threshold for arbitrary POVMs on a higher-dimensional Werner state?
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Secret key from every Bell-nonlocal behavior
Does every finite-alphabet Bell-nonlocal behavior have a strictly positive asymptotic secret-key rate against arbitrary individual nonsignalling attacks?
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SIC-POVM existence in every dimension
Does a symmetric informationally complete positive-operator-valued measure exist in every finite dimension \(d\ge2\)?
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Finite-alphabet nonsignalling simulation of entangled qubits
For every partially entangled two-qubit pure state, does some fixed finite-alphabet nonsignalling resource give an exact noncommunicating simulation of all local projective measurements?
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Universal simulation with two PR boxes
Can shared randomness and at most two Popescu–Rohrlich boxes exactly simulate every pair of local projective measurements on every two-qubit state, without communication?
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One-bit simulation of partially entangled qubits
Can shared randomness and one classical bit exactly simulate every pair of local projective measurements on every pure entangled two-qubit state?
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Long-range vacuum CHSH violation
Does the vacuum of a massive free scalar Bose field violate the CHSH inequality between bounded localization regions at arbitrarily large spacelike separation?
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Weyl–Heisenberg-covariant SICs in every dimension
Does every finite dimension admit a symmetric informationally complete measurement that is a single Weyl–Heisenberg orbit?
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Statistical strength of CGLMP measurements
For every \(d\geq3\), do the standard CGLMP Fourier–phase measurements maximize the relative-entropy statistical strength against local realism among all projective \(d\)-outcome measurements on the fixed state \(\lvert\Phi_d\rangle=d^{-1/2}\sum_{j=0}^{d-1}\lvert j,j\rangle\), when the setting distribution is also optimized?
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Extensible causality and process purification
Is every finite-dimensional extensibly causal process matrix purifiable?
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Semialgebraicity of closed quantum correlations
Is the closure of the finite-dimensional tensor-product correlation set semialgebraic in every fixed bipartite Bell scenario?
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Maximum number of mutually unbiased bases
For each integer \(d\geq2\), determine the maximum number \(\mu(d)\) of pairwise mutually unbiased orthonormal bases of \(\mathbb C^d\).
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Optimal CGLMP measurements for a maximally entangled state
For every \(d\geq3\), do the standard Fourier–phase measurements optimize the CGLMP violation of the maximally entangled state among all projective \(d\)-outcome measurements?
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Quantum violations of bipartite Bell facets
Must every nontrivial facet Bell inequality in a finite bipartite scenario have a quantum violation?
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Complete facet descriptions for Bell polytopes
Determine complete facet descriptions for local-behavior polytopes beyond the presently solved Bell scenarios, either for a specified unresolved finite scenario or for a nontrivial infinite family with additional structure.
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Zauner-symmetric Weyl–Heisenberg SIC fiducials
Does every finite dimension admit a Weyl–Heisenberg SIC fiducial that is an eigenvector of a Zauner Clifford unitary?
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