On Bell’s inequality

Keith Hannabuss

David Avis, Hiroshi Imai, Tsuyoshi Ito +1 more

Bell inequalities, originally introduced as a method to prove that some quantum states show nonlocal behavior, are now studied as a method to capture the extent of the nonlocality of quantum states. Tight Bell inequalities are considered to be more important than redundant ones. Despite the increasing importance of the study of Bell inequalities, few kinds of tight Bell inequalities have been found. Examples include the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality, the I_{mmvv} inequalities, the CGLMP inequalities, and the Bell inequalities in systems small enough to generate all the Bell inequalities by exhaustive search. In this paper, we establish a relation between the two-party Bell inequalities for two-valued measurements and a high-dimensional convex polytope called the cut polytope in polyhedral combinatorics. Using this relation, we propose a method, triangular elimination, to derive tight Bell inequalities from facets of the cut polytope. This method gives two hundred million inequivalent tight Bell inequalities from currently known results on the cut polytope. In addition, this method gives general formulas which represent families of infinitely many Bell inequalities. These results can be used to examine general properties of Bell inequalities.

K. Veerkamp

Bell inequalities are certain probabilistic inequalities that should hold in the context of quantum measurement under assumption of a local hidden variable model. These inequalities can be violated according to the theory of quantum mechanics and have also been violated experimentally. Bell inequalities were therefore historically used to disprove local hidden variable models as an interpretation of quantum mechanics. An interesting question is to what degree Bell inequalities can be violated according to the theory of quantum mechanics. The degree to which a particular Bell inequality can be violated is quantified by the largest violation of the Bell inequality. A central question we address in this thesis is how large the largest violation can become when considering all possible Bell inequalities. In particular the CHSH-inequality, a well-known Bell inequality, has a largest violation equal to the square root of 2 and we want to find a Bell inequality with largest violation exceeding the square root of 2. This thesis consists of two main parts. In the first part we formally define Bell inequalities and the largest violation and prove several theorems about Bell inequalities. In the second part we search for Bell inequalities with largest violation exceeding the square root of 2. We do this by first approximating the largest violation of a given Bell inequality using numerical optimization. Next, using this approximation, we use numerical optimization to maximize the largest violation. Due to run-time restrictions we were only able to consider Bell inequalities with a relatively small number of terms and were unable to find any among them with largest violation exceeding the square root of 2.

Pierre A. Millette

D. Gutkowski, G. Masotto

Yu-Chun Wu, Marek Żukowski

A technique, which we call homogenization, is applied to transform Clauser and Horne- (CH)-type Bell inequalities that contain lower-order correlations into CH, Shimony, and Holt- (CHSH)-type Bell inequalities, which are defined for highest-order correlation functions. A homogenization leads to inequalities involving more settings, that is, a choice of one more observable is possible for each party. We show that this technique preserves the tightness of Bell inequalities: A homogenization of a tight CH-type Bell inequality is still a tight CHSH-type Bell inequality. As an example, we obtain $3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}3$ CHSH-type Bell inequalities by the homogenization of $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2$ CH-type Bell inequalities derived by Sliwa [Phys. Lett. A 317, 165 (2003)].