Measurement incompatibility and quantum nonlocality are two key features of quantum theory.Violations of Bell inequalities require quantum entanglement and incompatibility of the measurements used by the two parties involved in the protocol.We analyze the converse question: for which Bell inequalities is the incompatibility of measurements enough to ensure a quantum violation?We relate the two questions by comparing two tensor norms on the space of dichotomic quantum measurements, one characterizing measurement compatibility and the other characterizing violations of a given Bell inequality.We provide sufficient conditions for the equivalence of the two notions in terms of the matrix describing the correlation Bell inequality.We show that the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality and its variants are the only ones that satisfy it.
Measurement incompatibility and quantum nonlocality are two key features of quantum theory.Violations of Bell inequalities require quantum entanglement and incompatibility of the measurements used by the two parties involved in the protocol.We analyze the converse question: for which Bell inequalities is the incompatibility of measurements enough to ensure a quantum violation?We relate the two questions by comparing two tensor norms on the space of dichotomic quantum measurements, one characterizing measurement compatibility and the other characterizing violations of a given Bell inequality.We provide sufficient conditions for the equivalence of the two notions in terms of the matrix describing the correlation Bell inequality.We show that the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality and its variants are the only ones that satisfy it.
One of the major concepts introduced by quantum theory is the compatibility of quantum measurements. There are certain types of measurements that cannot be made at the same time. Thus,we say that measurements are compatible if they can be measured at the same time and others are incompatible. The other major concept of quantum mechanics is that of nonlocality which is one of the most counterintuitive concepts of quantum physics. This major concept is due to John Bell who showed that quantum mechanics is intrinsically non-local. Thus, we speak of violation of Bell's inequalities by quantum mechanics. Today, nonlocality is understood through nonlocal games. A nonlocal game consists of two or more players Alice and Bob playing against a referee. The referee will ask a number of questions to the players who will have to generate a number of answers using a classical or quantum strategy. It turns out that the maximum number of answers that Alice and Bob can generate is intrinsically linked to a tensor norm characterizing the game. In this formalism, the use of classical strategies is related to the norm of the matrix of the game itself, so the violation of Bell's inequalities results in a strict inequality between the tensor norms. The aim of this thesis is to understand the incompatibility of quantum measures and the link with Bell's inequalities. First, we introduced the compatibility of quantum measures from a new point of view, and analyzed the types of noise that can be made to make the system compatible. This new point of view consists in understanding and analyzing the effect of the dimension of the Hilbert space on the incompatibility of measurements. Moreover, in order to make the measurements compatible, we can introduce the effect of a noise. As an application, some states known as MUB are incompatible in nature, we show that even if we add noise to the MUB it remains incompatible, there is an isometry and a Hilbert space of smaller dimension making the MUB compatible. In a second step, we have analyzed the intrinsic link between the incompatibility of quantum measurements and the violation of Bell's inequalities. For this purpose, we considered the framework of non-local games, where Alice's measurements are fixed. It is known that a violation of Bell's inequalities requires the use of incompatible measurements. On the other hand, if Alice wants to know if she will observe a violation of Bell's inequalities if she uses incompatible measures. To do this, she must compute two tensor norms of a tensor constructed from her measurements. These tensorial norms will characterize on the one hand the compatibility of Alice's measurements and on the other hand the violation of Bell's inequalities. In this natural framework, to understand the link between the incompatibility of quantum measurements and the violation of Bell's inequalities, we have to compare the two tensorial norms. Now, it turns out that for the CHSH game these two norms are equal, but it can be shown generally that they are not. We can ask ourselves if there are other types of games satisfying this equality of the tensorial norms? It turns out that we have shown that with sufficient conditions, only the CHSH game with a multiplicative constant gives the equality between the tensor norms.
Abstract Nonlocality, manifested by the violation of Bell inequalities, indicates entanglement within a joint quantum system. A natural question is how much entanglement is required for a given nonlocal behavior. Here, we explore this question by quantifying entanglement using a family of generalized Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt-type Bell inequalities. Given a Bell-inequality violation, we derive analytical lower bounds on the entanglement of formation, a measure related to entanglement dilution. The bounds also lead to an analytical estimation of the negativity of entanglement. In addition, we consider one-way distillable entanglement tied to entanglement distillation and derive tight numerical estimates. With the additional assumptions of qubit-qubit systems, we find that the relationship between entanglement and measurement incompatibility is not simply a trade-off under a fixed nonlocal behavior. Furthermore, we apply our results to two realistic scenarios—non-maximally entangled and Werner states. We show that one can utilize the nonlocal statistics by optimizing the Bell inequality for better entanglement estimation.
Contextuality and measurement incompatibility are two fundamental aspects of nonclassicality, and their manifestations in observed quantum correlations are often deeply interconnected. Recently, measurement incompatibility has been studied in connection with nonlocality, particularly in terms of their robustness under various quantum channels. This line of investigation helps establish a connection between the channels that break nonlocality and those that break incompatibility. In this study, we focus on an asymmetric bipartite Bell scenario involving three and four inputs on Alice and Bob sides, respectively, with each of these inputs having dichotomous outcomes. Under the assumption of locality, the observed statistics in this asymmetric scenario obeys the Elegant Bell inequality (EBI). Here, we use a different version of the EBI that relies on the assumption of the preparation noncontextuality. By taking the violation of this noncontextual version of EBI as a witness of preparation contextuality we establish a connection between the channels that break contextuality and the channels that break triple-wise measurement incompatibility. Our results suggest that any channel which breaks EBI contextuality will also break Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) nonlocality; however, the reverse does not hold. We also show that a depolarising channel that breaks N-wise incompatibility can also break a certain form of contextuality, witnessed by a generalised inequality involving N measurements on one wing of a bipartite Bell scenario.
Incompatibility of observables, or measurements, is one of the key features of quantum mechanics, related, among other concepts, to Heisenberg's uncertainty relations and Bell nonlocality. In this manuscript we show, however, that even though incompatible measurements are necessary for the violation of any Bell inequality, some relevant Bell-like inequalities may be obtained if compatibility relations are assumed between the local measurements of one (or more) of the parties. Hence, compatibility of measurements is not necessarily a drawback and may, however, be useful for the detection of Bell nonlocality and device-independent certification of entanglement.
In the case of a pair of two-outcome measurements, incompatibility is equivalent to Bell nonlocality. Indeed, any pair of incompatible two-outcome measurements can violate the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt Bell inequality, which has been proven by Wolf et al (2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 230402). In the case of more than two measurements the equivalence between incompatibility and Bell nonlocality is still an open problem, though partial results have recently been obtained. Here we show that the equivalence breaks for a special choice of three measurements. In particular, we present a set of three incompatible two-outcome measurements, such that if Alice measures this set, independent of the set of measurements chosen by Bob and the state shared by them, the resulting statistics cannot violate any Bell inequality. On the other hand, complementing the above result, we exhibit a set of N measurements for any that is -wise compatible, nevertheless it gives rise to Bell violation.
Bell nonlocality is the experimentally testable incompatibility between quantum correlations and explanations based on local hidden variables. Its significance now extends beyond the foundations of quantum mechanics: a Bell-inequality violation can certify entanglement, randomness, measurement incompatibility, and cryptographic security without requiring a detailed model of the devices producing the observed data. This article develops the mathematical structure of Bell experiments and explains its role in device-independent quantum information. Conditional probability distributions are classified into local, quantum, and no-signalling sets; the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality is derived, and its classical, quantum, and algebraic limits are distinguished. Tsirelson’s bound is obtained from the CHSH operator, while Popescu-Rohrlich correlations demonstrate that no-signalling alone does not identify the quantum set. The relation between entanglement and nonlocality is examined through local entangled states, hidden nonlocality, and activation. Nonlocal games, semidefinite relaxations, self-testing, certified randomness, and device-independent quantum key distribution are treated as operational consequences of Bell violation. Particular attention is given to entropy accumulation, finite-data security, loophole-free experiments, and the limitations of device independence. Bell nonlocality emerges as both a foundational separation between classical and quantum causal models and a quantitative resource for cryptographic and informational tasks.