Facets of tripartite entanglement

Kaushiki Mukherjee, Biswajit Paul, Debasis Sarkar

According to the studies of genuine tripartite nonlocality in discrete variable quantum systems conducted so far, Svetlichny inequality is considered as the best Bell-type inequality to detect genuine (three way) nonlocality of pure tripartite genuine entangled states. In the present work, we have considered another Bell-type inequality (which has been reported as the 99th facet of NS 2 local polytope in Bancal et al (2013 Phys. Rev. A 88 014102 ), to reveal genuine tripartite nonlocality of generalized GHZ (Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger) class and a subclass of extended GHZ class states Acín et al (2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 1560 ) thereby proving the conjecture given by Bancal et al (2013 Phys. Rev. A 88 014102 ) for the GGHZ class and the subclass of extended GHZ states. We compare the violation of this inequality with Svetlichny inequality which reveals the efficiency of the former inequality over the latter to demonstrate genuine nonlocality using the above classes of quantum states. Even in some cases discord monogamy score can be used as a better measure of quantum correlation over Svetlichny inequality for those classes of pure states. Besides, the 99th facet inequality is found efficient not only for revealing genuine nonlocal behavior of correlations emerging in systems using pure entangled states but also in some cases of mixed entangled states over Svetlichny inequality and some well known measures of entanglement.

Noriaki Horiuchi

Fabio Deelan Cunden, Paolo Facchi A, Giuseppe Florio +1 more

James Vallins, Ana Belén Sainz, Yeong-Cherng Liang

We study the set of almost-quantum correlations and their refinements in the simplest tripartite Bell scenario where each party is allowed to perform two dichotomic measurements. In contrast to its bipartite counterpart, we find that there already exist facet Bell inequalities that witness almost-quantum correlations beyond quantum theory in this simplest tripartite Bell scenario. Furthermore, we study the relation between the almost-quantum set and the hierarchy of supersets to the quantum set due to Navascu\'es-Pironio-Ac\'{\i}n (NPA) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010401 (2007)]. While the former lies between the first and the third level of the NPA hierarchy, we find that its second level does not contain and is not contained within the almost-quantum set. Finally, we investigate the hierarchy of refinements to the almost-quantum set due to Moroder et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030501 (2013)], which converges to the set of quantum correlations producible by quantum states having positive partial transposition. This allows us to consider (approximations of) the ``biseparable'' subsets of the almost-quantum set as well as of the quantum set of correlations, and thereby gain further insights into the subtle similarities and differences between the two sets. In addition, they allow us to identify candidate Bell-like inequalities that can serve as device-independent witnesses for genuine tripartite entanglement.

Alastair A. Abbott, Christina Giarmatzi, Fabio Costa +1 more

We consider the most general correlations that can be obtained by a group of parties whose causal relations are well defined, although possibly probabilistic and dependent on past parties' operations. We show that, for any fixed number of parties and inputs and outputs for each party, the set of such correlations forms a convex polytope, whose vertices correspond to deterministic strategies and whose (nontrivial) facets define so-called causal inequalities. We completely characterize the simplest tripartite polytope in terms of its facet inequalities, propose generalizations of some inequalities to scenarios with more parties, and show that our tripartite inequalities can be violated within the process matrix formalism, where quantum mechanics is locally valid but no global causal structure is assumed.

Andrew Grant