Hierarchical activation of quantum nonlocality: Stronger than local indistinguishability

Abstract

The quantum state discrimination primitive becomes highly nontrivial in the limited measurement setting and leads to different classes of impossibility, viz., indistinguishability, unmarkability, irreducibility, etc. These phenomena, often referred to as another nonlocal aspect of quantum theory, have utmost importance in the domain of data hiding, secret sharing, etc. Motivated by this, recently a significant effort has been devoted to activate local indistinguishability from locally distinguishable nontrivial sets of quantum states. In the present work, we introduce other stronger notions of quantum nonlocality and depict a series of hierarchical nonlocality activation from nontrivial sets of locally distinguishable entangled states. Moreover, we appropriately moderate the strict condition of nontriviality, introduced in earlier literature, and come up with interesting examples in support of our claim.