Construction of Inequalities for Network Quantum Steering Detection
Ji Jia, Kan He · Axioms · 2025
Quantum network correlations are crucial for long-distance quantum communication, quantum cryptography, and distributed quantum computing. Detecting network steering is particularly challenging in complex network structures. We have studied the steering inequality criteria for a 2-forked 3-layer tree-shaped network. Assuming the first and third layers are trusted and the second layer is untrusted, we derived a steering inequality criterion using the correlation matrix between trusted and untrusted observables. In particular, we apply the steering criterion to three classes of measurements which are of special significance: local orthogonal observables, mutually unbiased measurements, and general symmetric informationally complete measurements. We further illustrate the effectiveness of our method through an example.