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arXiv:quant-ph/0107050 · Physical Review Letters

Multipartite Bound Entangled States that Violate Bell’s Inequality

Wolfgang Dür

Published Nov 13, 2001• 121 citations
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Abstract

We study the relation between distillability of multipartite states and violation of Bell's inequality. We prove that there exist multipartite bound entangled states (i.e., nonseparable, nondistillable states) that violate a multipartite Bell inequality. This implies that (i) violation of Bell's inequality is not a sufficient condition for distillability and (ii) some bound entangled states cannot be described by a local hidden variable model.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.87.230402

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