Table 2 Possible outcomes and the corresponding probabilities for different measurement settings in the perfect model. Outcome \(i j \in \{+,-,?\}\times \{+,-,?\}\) represents i at Alice and j at Bob. It can be verified that the conditional probability distributions are no-signalling50.

From: Bright-light detector control emulates the local bounds of Bell-type inequalities

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Measurement outcome

Joint probability at measurement setting

\(\alpha _0 \beta _0\)

\(\alpha _1 \beta _0\)

\(\alpha _0 \beta _1\)

\(\alpha _1 \beta _1\)

\(\alpha _0 \beta _0\)

\({+}+\)

a

b/2

0

0

\(+-\)

0

0

a

b/2

\(-+\)

0

b/2

0

0

\({-}-\)

0

0

0

b/2

\(?+\)

\(1-a\)

\(1-b\)

0

0

\(?-\)

0

0

\(1-a\)

\(1-b\)

\(\alpha _1 \beta _1\)

\({+}+\)

b/2

a

b/2

a

\(+-\)

0

0

0

0

\(-+\)

b/2

0

b/2

0

\({-}-\)

0

0

0

0

\(?+\)

\(1-b\)

\(1-a\)

\(1-b\)

\(1-a\)

\(?-\)

0

0

0

0