Quantum steering refers to correlations that can be classified as intermediate between entanglement and Bell nonlocality. Every state exhibiting Bell nonlocality exhibits also quantum steering and every state exhibiting quantum steering is also entangled. In low dimensional cases similar hierarchical relations have been observed between the temporal counterparts of these correlations. Here, we study the hierarchy of such temporal correlations for a general multilevel quantum system. We demonstrate that the same hierarchy holds for two definitions of state over time. In order to compare different types of temporal correlations, we show that temporal counterparts of Bell nonlocality and entanglement can be quantified with a temporal nonlocality robustness and temporal entanglement robustness. Our numerical result reveal that in contrast to temporal steering, for temporal nonlocality to manifest itself we require the initial state not to be in a completely mixed state.
Quantum steering refers to correlations that can be classified as intermediate between entanglement and Bell nonlocality. Every state exhibiting Bell nonlocality exhibits also quantum steering and every state exhibiting quantum steering is also entangled. In low dimensional cases similar hierarchical relations have been observed between the temporal counterparts of these correlations. Here, we study the hierarchy of such temporal correlations for a general multilevel quantum system. We demonstrate that the same hierarchy holds for two definitions of state over time. In order to compare different types of temporal correlations, we show that temporal counterparts of Bell nonlocality and entanglement can be quantified with a temporal nonlocality robustness and temporal entanglement robustness. Our numerical result reveal that in contrast to temporal steering, for temporal nonlocality to manifest itself we require the initial state not to be in a completely mixed state.
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering is an intermediate quantum correlation that lies in between entanglement and Bell nonlocality. Its temporal analog, temporal steering, has recently been shown to have applications in quantum information and open quantum systems. Here we show that there exists a hierarchy among the three temporal quantum correlations: temporal inseparability, temporal steering, and macrorealism. Given that the temporal inseparability can be used to define a measure of quantum causality, similarly the quantification of temporal steering can be viewed as a weaker measure of direct cause and can be used to distinguish between direct cause and common cause in a quantum network.
Entanglement, quantum steering and Bell nonlocality can be used to describe the distinct quantum correlations of quantum systems. Because of their different characteristics and application fields, how to divide them quantitatively and accurately becomes particularly important. Based on the sufficient and necessary criterion for quantum steering of an arbitrary two-qubit T-state, we derive the inequality relations between quantum steering and entanglement as well as between quantum steering and Bell nonlocality for the T-state. Additionally, we have verified those relations experimentally.
Abstract Nonclassicality is seen as an important physical resource and offers quantum advantages in modern quantum information processing. Motivated by recent work on the interplay between Bell nonlocality and nonclassicality quantified by average correlation [ Phys. Rev. Res. 5 023063 (2023)], in this paper we aim to establish the intrinsic relationship between the average correlation and the violation of the three-setting linear steering inequality for arbitrary two-qubit states. The results suggest that average correlation is closely related to the violation of the three-setting linear steering inequality, like its relationship with Bell inequality violation. Moreover, the dynamical behaviors of average correlation and steering are carefully analyzed under the influence of local unital and nonunital noisy channels. Particularly, for any two-qubit states, the hierarchy of average correlation-steering-Bell nonlocality is demonstrated by using the singular value decomposition theorem.
Quantum correlations are fragile under noise, motivating quantitative measures that track not only their presence but also their degradation during physical evolution. We develop a robustness framework for the hierarchy of Bell nonlocality, EPR steering, and entanglement, establishing an ordering of the corresponding robustness measures and relating robustness to noise-induced transition times. We further formulate the instantaneous robustness decay along Lindblad dynamics as a directional derivative determined by both the evolution and the robustness functional. Applications to isotropic depolarizing noise and amplitude damping illustrate, respectively, the resulting resource transition times and the directional dependence of steering robustness. The framework provides an approach to characterizing the degradation and lifetime of bipartite quantum correlations under noisy dynamics.
Quantum channels breaking entanglement, incompatibility, or nonlocality are defined as such because they are not useful for entanglement-based, one-sided device-independent, or device-independent quantum-information processing, respectively.Here, we show that such breaking channels are related to complementary tests of macrorealism, i.e., temporal separability, channel unsteerability, temporal unsteerability, and the temporal Bell inequality.To demonstrate this we first define a steerability-breaking channel, which is conceptually similar to entanglement and nonlocality-breaking channels and prove that it is identical to an incompatibility-breaking channel.A hierarchy of quantum nonbreaking channels is derived, akin to the existing hierarchy relations for temporal and spatial quantum correlations.We then introduce the concept of channels that break temporal correlations, explain how they are related to the standard breaking channels, and prove the following results.(1) A robustness-based measure for non-entanglementbreaking channels can be probed by temporal nonseparability.(2) A non-steerability-breaking channel can be quantified by channel steering.(3) Temporal steerability and nonmacrorealism can be used for, respectively, distinguishing unital steerability-breaking channels and nonlocality-breaking channels for a maximally entangled state.Finally, a two-dimensional depolarizing channel is experimentally implemented as a proof-of-principle example to demonstrate the hierarchy relation of nonbreaking channels using temporal quantum correlations.
By using the Born Markovian master equation, we study the relationship among the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering, Bell nonlocality, and quantum entanglement of entangled coherent states (ECSs) under decoherence. We illustrate the dynamical behavior of the three types of correlations for various optical field strength regimes. In general, we find that correlation measurements begin at their maximum and decline over time. We find that quantum steering and nonlocality behave similarly in terms of photon number during dynamics. Furthermore, we discover that ECSs with steerability can violate the Bell inequality, and that not every ECS with Bell nonlocality is steerable. In the current work, without the memory stored in the environment, some of the initial states with maximal values of quantum steering, Bell nonlocality, and entanglement can provide a delayed loss of that value during temporal evolution, which is of interest to the current study.