Self-Testing of Physical Theories, or, Is Quantum Theory Optimal with Respect to Some Information-Processing Task?

@article{Weilenmann2020SelfTestingOP,
  title={Self-Testing of Physical Theories, or, Is Quantum Theory Optimal with Respect to Some Information-Processing Task?},
  author={Mirjam Weilenmann and Roger Colbeck},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2020},
  volume={125 6},
  pages={
          060406
        }
}
Self-testing usually refers to the task of taking a given set of observed correlations that are assumed to arise via a process that is accurately described by quantum theory, and trying to infer the quantum state and measurements. In other words it is concerned with the question of whether we can tell what quantum black-box devices are doing by looking only at their input-output behavior and is known to be possible in several cases. Here we introduce a more general question: is it possible to… 
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