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arXiv:quant-ph/0005028 · Physical Review Letters

Violations of Local Realism by Two Entangled N -Dimensional Systems Are Stronger than for Two Qubits

Dagomir Kaszlikowski, P. Gnaciński, Marek Żukowski, W. Miklaszewski, Anton Zeilinger

Published Nov 20, 2000• 506 citations
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Abstract

Tests of local realism versus quantum mechanics based on Bell's inequality employ two entangled qubits. We investigate the general case of two entangled quantum systems defined in N-dimensional Hilbert spaces, or " quNits." Via a numerical linear optimization method we show that violations of local realism are stronger for two maximally entangled quNits ( 3</=N</=9) than for two qubits and that they increase with N. The two quNit measurements can be experimentally realized using entangled photons and unbiased multiport beam splitters.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.85.4418

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We report an exhaustive numerical analysis of violations of local realism by two qutrits in all possible pure entangled states. In Bell-type experiments we allow any pair of local unitary U(3) transformations to define the measurement bases. Surprisingly, Schmidt-rank-2 states, resembling pairs of maximally entangled qubits, lead to the most noise-robust violations of local realism. The phenomenon seems to be even more pronounced for four- and five-dimensional systems, for which we tested a few interesting examples.
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