Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Gain in a Zero-Sum Game (Open Access, Publisher's Version)

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a zero-sum game that is in a fair Nash equilibrium for classical players, but has the property that a quantum player can always win using an appropriate strategy. The gain of the quantum player is measured experimentally for different quantum strategies and input states. It is found that the quantum gain is maximized by a maximally entangled state, but does not decrease to zero when entanglement disappears. Instead, it links with another kind of quantum correlation described by discord for the qubit case and the connection is demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1048917

Entities

People

  • C Zu
  • Luming Duan
  • S.-y. Zhang
  • X.-y. Chang
  • Y.-x. Wang
  • Z.-h. Wei

Organizations

  • Tsinghua University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Science
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Frequency
  • Game Theory
  • Hong Kong
  • Laser Pulses
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Optical Materials
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum States
  • Quantum Tomography
  • Waveplates
  • Zero-Sum Games

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Game Theory.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing