In this paper, we use Bell inequality and nonlocality to study the bipartite correlation in an exactly soluble two-dimensional mixed spin system. Bell inequality turns out to be a valuable detector for phase transitions in this model. It can detect not only the quantum phase transition, but also the thermal phase transitions, of the system. The property of bipartite correlation in the system is also analyzed. In the quantum anti-ferromagnetic phase, the Bell inequality is violated thus nonlocality is present. It is interesting that the nonlocality is enhanced by thermal fluctuation, and similar results have not been observed in anti-ferromagnetic phase. In the ferromagnetic phase, the quantum correlation turns out to be very novel, which cannot be captured by entanglement or nonlocality.
Entanglement and violation of Bell inequalities are aspects of quantum nonlocality that have been often confused in the past. It is now known that this equivalence is only true for pure states. Even though almost all the studies of quantum correlations at quantum phase transitions deal only with entanglement, we here argue that Bell inequalities can also reveal a general quantum phase transition. This is also shown for a particular case of two spin-
21 particles in an infinite one-dimensional chain described by the XXZ model. In this case, the Bell inequality is able to signal not only the first-order phase transition, but also the infinite-order Kosterlitz-Thouless quantum phase transition, which cannot be revealed either by the energy of the system nor by the bipartite entanglement. We also show that although the nearest-neighbor spins are entangled, they, unexpectedly, never violate the Bell inequality. This indicates that the type of entanglement which is relevant for quantum phase transition is not trivial, i.e., it cannot be revealed by the Bell inequality.
Bell inequalities and nonlocality have been widely studied in one-dimensional quantum systems. As a kind of quantum correlation, it is expected that bipartite nonlocality should be present in quantum systems, just as bipartite entanglement does. Surprisingly, for various models, two-qubit states do not violate Bell inequalities, i.e., they are local. Recently, it is realized that the results are related to the monogamy trade-off obeyed by bipartite Bell correlations, thus it is believed that for general translation invariant systems, two-qubit states should not violate the Bell inequality [Oliveira, Europhys. Lett. 100, 60004 (2012)]. In this Brief Report, we demonstrate that in perfect translation-invariant systems with an even number of sites, the Bell inequality can be violated. A nontrivial model is constructed to confirm the conclusion.
In this paper, using the infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) algorithm and Bell-type inequalities, we investigate multipartite quantum nonlocality in an infinite one-dimensional quantum spin-
21XXZ system. High hierarchy of multipartite nonlocality can be observed in the gapless phase of the model, while only the lowest hierarchy of multipartite nonlocality is observed in most regions of the gapped antiferromagnetic phase. Thereby, Bell-type inequalities disclose different correlation structures in the two phases of the system. Furthermore, at the infinite-order quantum phase transition (QPT, or Kosterlitz-Thouless QPT) point of the model, the correlation measures always show a local minimum value, regardless of the length of the subchains. It indicates that relatively low hierarchy of multipartite nonlocality would be observed at the infinite-order QPT point in a Bell-type experiment. The result is in contrast to the existing results of the second-order QPT in the one-dimensional
XY model, where multipartite nonlocality with the highest hierarchy has been observed. Thus, multipartite nonlocality provides an alternative perspective to distinguish between these two kinds of QPTs. Reliable clues for the existence of tripartite quantum entanglement have also been found.
In this article, we investigate the dynamics of a bipartite system under the action of a local non-Hermitian system. We study the quantum correlation of the bipartite system quantified by the entanglement, measurement-induced nonlocality (MIN) based on Hilbert-Schmidt norm, trace distance, and Bell inequality. We find that the quantum correlations of the system depend on the initial conditions and system parameters. We observe that the states with nonzero quantum correlation obey the Bell inequality even in the absence of entanglement. Moreover, the Bell inequality completely fails to manifest the nonlocality for the mixed quantum state. However, we have identified the nonlocal attributes of the mixed quantum state in terms of MIN and trace distance MIN. Our results show that the trace distance-based correlation is more robust against the nonunitary evolution compared to the other quantifiers.
Abstract We consider a bipartite scenario where two parties hold ensembles of 1/2-spins which can only be measured collectively. We give numerical arguments supporting the conjecture that in this scenario no Bell inequality can be violated for arbitrary numbers of spins if only first order moment observables are available. We then give a recipe to achieve a significant Bell violation with a split many-body system when this restriction is lifted. This highlights the strong requirements needed to detect bipartite quantum correlations in many-body systems device-independently.
The ground state of interacting spin chains in external magnetic fields can undergo a quantum phase transition (QPT) characterized by dramatic changes at a critical value of the magnetic field. In this paper, we use Bell-type inequalities to study the multipartite correlations (including multipartite entanglement and multipartite nonlocality in an
n-spin subsystem) in the QPT of an infinite
XY chain. An efficient numerical optimization procedure is proposed to figure out the violation measure
Mn of the inequalities. For $n\ensuremath{\le}7$, the magnetic-field ($\ensuremath{\lambda}$) dependence of
Mn is studied. We find the derivative of
Mn is divergent exactly at the QPT point ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c}=1$ for any
n. In addition, with the increase of
n,
Mn converges quickly for $\ensuremath{\lambda}<{\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c}$ and converges very slowly for $\ensuremath{\lambda}>{\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c}$, which can be regarded as another signal for the QPT. Furthermore, in the vicinity of ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c}$, high-order Bell-type inequalities will be violated as long as
n is large enough. This indicates that high-level multipartite correlation will be present when the system is in the vicinity of the QPT point. Nevertheless, genuine
n-partite entanglement or genuine
n-partite nonlocality is not observed in the QPT.