A nonlocal game is a two player co-operative game. In each round of the game, the verifier sends two questions, say x and y to the players, Alice and Bob. The players then reply with their answers, say a and b respectively. Whether or not Alice and Bob win this round of the game is given by the value of the predicate function V(a, b|x, y). What makes these games non-trivial is the fact that Alice and Bob are not allowed to communicate during the game.
Alice and Bob can employ quantum strategies, where they make use of a shared entangled state. These quantum strategies can often given them an edge over classical strategies. Over the past few years, nonlocal games have been extensively studied and they have found applications in self-testing of quantum devices and quantum complexity theory.
I have mostly worked on synchronous nonlocal games. Several of these synchronous nonlocal games are based on graphs. The study of these nonlocal games involves a rich interplay of ideas from several fields such as quantum information, operator algebras, combinatorics and compact quantum groups. See the following entries on the papers section for more information:
Robust Self-Testing for Synchronous Correlations and Games
NPA Hierarchy for Quantum Isomorphism and Homomorphism Indistinguishability
Transitive Nonlocal Games
Quantum automorphism groups of graphs arise as a natural non-commutative generalization of the notion of the automorphism group of a graph. This a relatively new field and not much is known about the quantum automorphism groups of graphs. Most results address the question of whether a graph has quantum symmetry, i.e whether the quantum automorphism group of the graph is the same as the classical automorphism group of the graph.
I have worked on providing ways of explicitly calculating quantum automorphism groups of graphs. Our work is characterized by the use of combinatorial techniques like the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and making use of results about the graph isomorphism game. See the following entries in the papers section for more details:
Free Inhomogeneous Wreath Product of Quantum Groups
Quantum Automorphism Groups of Lexicographic Products of Graphs
Quantum Automorphism Groups of Trees