Published February 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Generating nonclassical correlations without fully aligning measurements

  • 1. School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006 (Australia)
  • 2. Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)

Description

We investigate the scenario where spatially separated parties perform measurements in randomly chosen bases on an N-partite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state. We show that without any alignment of the measurements, the observers will obtain correlations that violate a Bell inequality with a probability that rapidly approaches 1 as N increases and that this probability is robust against noise. We also prove that restricting these randomly chosen measurements to a plane perpendicular to a common direction will always generate correlations that violate some Bell inequality. Specifically, if each observer chooses their two measurements to be locally orthogonal, then the N observers will violate one of two Bell inequalities by an amount that increases exponentially with N. These results are also robust against noise and perturbations of each observer's reference direction from the common direction.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 022110-022110.14
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43016126
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BELL THEOREM; CORRELATIONS; DISTURBANCES; NOISE; PERTURBATION THEORY; PROBABILITY

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics