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arXiv:1306.3805 · Physical Review Letters

Designing Bell Inequalities from a Tsirelson Bound

Michael Epping, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß

Published Dec 11, 2013• 18 citations
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Abstract

We present a simple analytic bound on the quantum value of general correlation type Bell inequalities, similar to Tsirelson's bound. It is based on the maximal singular value of the coefficient matrix associated with the inequality. We provide a criterion for tightness of the bound and show that the class of inequalities where our bound is tight covers many famous examples from the literature. We describe how this bound helps to construct Bell inequalities, in particular inequalities that witness the dimension of the measured observables.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.111.240404

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We introduce Bell inequalities based on covariance, one of the most common measures of correlation. Explicit examples are discussed, and violations in quantum theory are demonstrated. A crucial feature of these covariance Bell inequalities is their nonlinearity; this has nontrivial consequences for the derivation of their local bound, which is not reached by deterministic local correlations. For our simplest inequality, we derive analytically tight bounds for both local and quantum correlations. An interesting application of covariance Bell inequalities is that they can act as ``shared randomness witnesses'': specifically, the value of the Bell expression gives device-independent lower bounds on both the dimension and the entropy of the shared random variable in a local model.