Entanglement in Quantum Bit Cloning and in Hardy’s Paradox

Shuai Zhao, Qing Zhou, Si-Ran Zhao +7 more

Hardy’s paradox provides an “All-versus-Nothing” fashion to directly certify that quantum mechanics cannot be completely described by local realistic theory. However, when considering potential imperfections in experiments, like noisy entanglement source and low detection efficiency, the original Hardy’s paradox can only induce a rather small Hardy violation, and is difficult to reveal. To overcome this challenge, we have proposed a realigned Hardy’s paradox, which can dramatically improve the Hardy violation. Furthermore, we have generalized the realigned Hardy’s paradox to arbitrary even n dichotomic measurements. For n=2, 4 and 6 cases, the realigned Hardy’s paradox can achieve Hardy values approximate 0.4140, 0.7734 and 0.8875 respectively for qubit systems, compared with only 0.09 of the original Hardy’s paradox. Meanwhile, the structure of the realigned Hardy’s paradox is simpler and more robust, in the sense that there is only one Hardy condition. We anticipate that the realigned Hardy’s paradox can tolerate more experimental imperfections and help to stimulate more fascinating quantum information applications.

G. Fano, S. M. Blinder

Soumya Das, Goutam Paul

Hardy’s paradox (equivalently, Hardy’s non-locality or Hardy’s test) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2981 (1992)] is used to show non-locality without inequalities, and it has been tested several times using optical circuits. We, for the first time, experimentally test Hardy’s paradox of non-locality in superconducting qubits. For practical verification of Hardy’s paradox, we argue that the error-modeling used in optical circuits is not useful for superconducting qubits. So, we propose a new error-modeling for Hardy’s paradox and a new method to estimate the lower bound on Hardy’s probability (i.e., the probability of a specific event in Hardy’s test) for superconducting qubits. Our results confirmed the theory that any non-maximally entangled state of two qubits violates Hardy’s equations; whereas, any maximally entangled state and product state of two qubits do not exhibit Hardy’s non-locality. Further, we point out the difficulties associated with the practical implementation of quantum protocols based on Hardy’s paradox and propose possible remedies. We also propose two performance measures for any two qubits of any quantum computer based on superconducting qubits.

Dagmar Bruß, Chiara Macchiavello

Hoshang Heydari

Soumya Das, Goutam Paul

We test Hardy's paradox of non-locality experimentally on the IBM five-qubit quantum computer for the first time. The quantum circuit is constructed on superconducting qubits corresponding to the original Hardy's test of non-locality. Results confirmed the theory that any non-maximally entangled state of two qubits violates Hardy's Equations, whereas any maximally entangled state and product state of two qubits do not exhibit Hardy's non-locality. We also point out the difficulties associated with the practical implementation of any Hardy's paradox based quantum protocol and propose three performance measures for any two qubits of any quantum computer.