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Physical Review A

Passive and active nonlocality sharing for a two-qubit system via weak measurements

Changliang Ren, Tianfeng Feng, Dan Yao, Haofei Shi, Jing‐Ling Chen, Xiaoqi Zhou

Published Nov 26, 2019• 27 citations
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Abstract

A well-known property of quantum nonlocality is monogamy. However, recent research by Silva et al. shows that multiple observers can share the nonlocality by using weak measurements [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)]. In this paper, we deeply discuss nonlocality sharing for an arbitrary two-qubit state via weak measurements. Two types of nonlocality sharing, passive nonlocality sharing and active nonlocality sharing, which is another type of double violation of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality with many counterintuitive results existing, are fully analyzed. The two types are quite distinct. Active nonlocality sharing can be observed when Bob1 performs strong measurements only except for the ideal strong measurements. Also, a double violation still can be observed in the active nonlocality sharing even using a square pointer type for weak measurements of Bob1, which is impossible in the passive one. As a special example, for a Bell state, a double violation of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality can be always observed in a broad range whether the weak measurement of Bob1 is with an optimal pointer or a square pointer.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.100.052121

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A well-known property of quantum nonlocality is monogamy. However, recent research by Silva et al. shows that multiple observers can share the nonlocality by using weak measurements [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)]. In this paper, we deeply discuss nonlocality sharing for an arbitrary two-qubit state via weak measurements. Two types of nonlocality sharing, passive nonlocality sharing and active nonlocality sharing, which is another type of double violation of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality with many counterintuitive results existing, are fully analyzed. The two types are quite distinct. Active nonlocality sharing can be observed when Bob1 performs strong measurements only except for the ideal strong measurements. Also, a double violation still can be observed in the active nonlocality sharing even using a square pointer type for weak measurements of Bob1, which is impossible in the passive one. As a special example, for a Bell state, a double violation of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality can be always observed in a broad range whether the weak measurement of Bob1 is with an optimal pointer or a square pointer.
Recently the authors of Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 090401 (2020) considered the following scenario: Alice and Bob each have half of a pair of entangled qubit states. Bob measures his half and then passes his part to a second Bob who measures again, and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of Bobs that can have an expected violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality with the single Alice. By taking the maximally entangled pure two-qubit state $|\ensuremath{\phi}\ensuremath{\rangle}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|00\ensuremath{\rangle}+|11\ensuremath{\rangle})$ as an example, it has been constructively proved that arbitrarily many independent Bobs can share the nonlocality with the single Alice. Here we demonstrate that arbitrarily many independent observers can share the nonlocality of a single arbitrary dimensional bipartite entangled but not necessary two-qubit entangled state. Furthermore, taking the generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states as an example, we show that at most two Charlies can share the genuine nonlocality of a single generalized GHZ state with an Alice and a Bob.
There exist bipartite entangled states whose violations of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) Bell inequality can be observed by a single Alice and arbitrarily many sequential Bobs [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 090401 (2020)]. Here we consider its analogues for tripartite systems: a tripartite entangled state is shared among Alice, Bob and multiple Charlies. The first Charlie measures his qubit and then passes his qubit to the next Charlie who measures again with other measurements and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of Charlies that can observe some kind of nonlocality with the single Alice and Bob. It has been shown that at most two Charlies could share genuine nonlocality of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state via the violation of Svetlichny inequality with Alice and Bob [Quantum Inf. Process. 18, 42 (2019) and Phys. Rev. A 103, 032216 (2021)]. In this work, we show that arbitrarily many Charlies can have standard nonlocality (via violations of Mermin inequality) and some other kind of genuine nonlocality (which is known as genuinely nonsignal nonlocality) with the single Alice and single Bob.
Abstract In the standard Bell experiment, two parties perform local projective measurements on a shared pair of entangled qubits to generate nonlocal correlations. However, these measurements completely destroy the entanglement, rendering the post-measurement state unable for subsequent use. For a long time, it was believed that only unsharp measurements can be used to share quantum correlations. Remarkably, recent research has shown that classical randomness assisted projective measurements are sufficient for sharing nonlocality (Steffinlongo and Tavakoli 2022 Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 230402). Here, by stochastically combining no more than two different projective measurement strategies, we report an experimental observation of double Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality violations with two measurements in a sequence made on each pair of maximally and partially entangled polarization photons. Our results reveal that the double violation achieved by partially entangled states can be 11 standard deviations larger than that achieved by maximally entangled ones. Our scheme eliminates the requirement for entanglement assistance in previous unsharp-measurement-based sharing schemes, making it experimentally easier. Our work provides possibilities for sharing other types of quantum correlations in various physical systems with projective measurements.
Bipartite entangled states whose violations of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Bell inequality can be observed by a single Alice and arbitrarily many sequential Bobs exist [Brown and Colbeck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 090401 (2020)]. Here we consider their analogs for tripartite systems: a tripartite entangled state is shared among Alice, Bob, and multiple Charlies. The first Charlie measures his qubit and then passes his qubit to the next Charlie, who measures again with other measurements, and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of Charlies that can observe some kind of nonlocality with the single Alice and Bob. It has been shown that at most two Charlies can share genuine nonlocality of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state via the violation of the Svetlichny inequality with Alice and Bob [S. Saha et al., Quantum Inf. Process. 18, 42 (2019); Zhang and Fei, Phys. Rev. A 103, 032216 (2021)]. In this work, we show that arbitrarily many Charlies can have standard nonlocality (via violations of the Mermin inequality) and some other kind of genuine nonlocality (which is known as genuinely nonsignal nonlocality) with a single Alice and single Bob.
Alice and Bob each have half of a pair of entangled qubits. Bob measures his half and then passes his qubit to a second Bob who measures again and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of Bobs that can have an expected violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) Bell inequality with the single Alice. This scenario was introduced in [R. Silva et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.114.250401] where the authors mentioned evidence that when the Bobs act independently and with unbiased inputs then at most two of them can expect to violate the CHSH inequality with Alice. Here we show that, contrary to this evidence, arbitrarily many independent Bobs can have an expected CHSH violation with the single Alice. Our proof is constructive and our measurement strategies can be generalized to work with a larger class of two-qubit states that includes all pure entangled two-qubit states. Since violation of a Bell inequality is necessary for device-independent tasks, our work represents a step towards an eventual understanding of the limitations on how much device-independent randomness can be robustly generated from a single pair of qubits.
A well-known property of quantum nonlocality is monogamy. However, recent research by Silva \emph{et al.} shows that multiple observers can share the nonlocality by using weak measurements [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)]. There is an open question left in their result: whether the nonlocality of a single particle from an entangled pair can be shared among more than two observers that act sequentially and independently of each other? In this work, we analytical and numerical shows that it is possible to observe a triple violation of CHSH inequality between Alice and three Bobs when the measurements of each of the several observers at one side are unbiased with respect to the previous observers. This result overturns the conclusions and proofs of previous related work on this issue which has been widely shared in the scientific community before.