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Physical Review A

Quantum nonlocality determined by fine-grained uncertainty relations

Xiang Zhou, Liang-Liang Sun, Sixia Yu

Published Feb 6, 2024• 2 citations
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Abstract

Quantum nonlocality and the uncertainty principle are two fundamental cornerstones of quantum theory, reflecting totally different aspects that distinguish it from classical theory. However, Oppenheim and Wehner introduced fine-grained uncertainty relations (FGURs) to account for the degree of quantum nonlocality. In the simplest Bell scenario, they showed that the quantum nonlocality measured by the maximal violation of some Bell inequality was determined by the FGUR. Along this line of research, we first derive explicit FGURs with general weights about probability distributions of two general projective measurements on local systems. Then we split those joint probabilities of Bell inequalities into a single-party conditional probability and the remaining joint probabilities so that the weighted FGURs can be applied straightforwardly to obtain the maximal violation in various scenarios ranging from bipartite, tripartite, to a complete set of multipartite Bell inequalities. Furthermore, in the bipartite scenario, the exact correlation boundary can be shown to be solely determined by our weighted local FGURs.

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10.1103/physreva.109.022408

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Abstract Bell nonlocality refers to the nonlocal correlation strength among quantum systems that cannot be duplicated using local hidden variables, and uncertainty relations set the lower bound on the sum or product of variances for incompatible observables within a quantum system. In this work, the study of linking these two fundamental quantum features in terms of statistical characteristics within Bell tests is initiated. Two statistics determine the state‐dependent quantum upper bounds of the Bell values: the expectation values of local observables, and the joint uncertainty that is the product of local uncertainty. Specifically, it is showed that the joint measurement uncertainty determines the upper bounds of covariant Bell inequalities in the quantum region, with more joint measurement uncertainty required for more covariant correlation strengths. Conversely, the covariant Bell value defines the lower bound of joint uncertainty. In addition, given the maximally entangled states, Tsirelson's bounds of Bell inequalities can be achieved when the joint uncertainty reaches the maximum.
Bell inequalities reveal the fundamentally nonlocal character of quantum mechanics. In this regard, one of the interesting problems is to explore all possible Bell inequalities that demonstrate a gap between local and nonlocal quantum behaviour. This is useful for the geometric characterisation of the set of nonlocal correlations achievable within quantum theory. Moreover, it provides a systematic way to construct Bell inequalities that are tailored to specific quantum information processing tasks. This characterisation is well understood in the simplest (2,2,2)(2,2,2)(2,2,2) scenario, namely two parties performing two binary outcome measurements. However, beyond this setting, relatively few Bell inequalities are known, and the situation becomes particularly scarce in scenarios involving a greater number of outcomes. Here, we consider the (2,2,3)(2,2,3)(2,2,3) scenario, or two parties performing two three-outcome measurements, and characterise all Bell inequalities that can arise from the simplest sum-of-squares decomposition and are maximally violated by the maximally entangled state of local dimension three. We then utilise them to self-test this state, along with a class of three-outcome measurements.
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Distinct from Bell's approach, Wigner derived a form of local realist (LR) inequality which is quantum-mechanically violated for a bipartite maximally entangled state. Subsequently, this approach was generalized to obtain a multipartite LR inequality. However, the violation of such a generalized Wigner inequality does not guarantee nonlocality between all possible different bipartitions of the multipartite system. In the present paper, this limitation has been overcome by formulating a further generalization of Wigner's approach through the derivation of a set of LR inequalities with respect to all different bipartitions of a NNN-partite system. Quantum-mechanical violations of all individual LR inequalities belonging to such a set would rigorously certify multipartite nonlocality by also providing a finer characterization of the nature of multipartite nonlocality in the following sense. The quantum-mechanical violation of any given inequality of our complete set of LR inequalities would enable identification of the corresponding bipartition which exhibits nonlocality. This is in contrast to other multipartite LR inequalities such as the Svetlichny inequality or its generalization that cannot be used to detect whether there is any particular bipartition which is nonlocally correlated. The efficacy of the scheme developed in this paper is illustrated for the tripartite and quadripartite states.
Abstract For a multipartite quantum state, the maximal violation of all Bell inequalities constitutes a measure of its nonlocality (Loubenets 2012 J . Math . Phys . 53 , 022201). In the present article, for the maximal violation of Bell inequalities by a pure bipartite state, possibly infinite-dimensional, we derive a new upper bound expressed in terms of the Schmidt coefficients of this state . This new upper bound allows us also to specify general analytical relations between the maximal violation of Bell inequalities by a bipartite quantum state, pure or mixed, and such entanglement measures for this state as ‘negativity’ and ‘concurrence’. To our knowledge, no any general analytical relations between measures for bipartite nonlocality and entanglement have been reported in the literature though, for a general bipartite state, specifically such relations are important for the entanglement certification and quantification scenarios. As an example, we apply our new results to finding upper bounds on nonlocality of bipartite coherent states intensively discussed last years in the literature in view of their experimental implementations.