Hardy is (almost) everywhere: nonlocality without inequalities for almost all entangled multipartite states

DOI10.1016/J.IC.2015.09.003zbMATH Open1353.81024arXiv1506.01365OpenAlexW652745200MaRDI QIDQ320194FDOQ320194

Authors: Samson Abramsky, Carmen M. Constantin, Shenggang Ying 

Publication date: 6 October 2016

Published in: Information and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that all $n$-qubit entangled states, with the exception of tensor products of single-qubit and bipartite maximally-entangled states, admit Hardy-type proofs of non-locality without inequalities or probabilities. More precisely, we show that for all such states, there are local, one-qubit observables such that the resulting probability tables are logically contextual in the sense of Abramsky and Brandenburger, this being the general form of the Hardy-type property. Moreover, our proof is constructive: given a state, we show how to produce the witnessing local observables. In fact, we give an algorithm to do this. Although the algorithm is reasonably straightforward, its proof of correctness is non-trivial. A further striking feature is that we show that $n+2$ local observables suffice to witness the logical contextuality of any $n$-qubit state: two each for two for the parties, and one each for the remaining $n-2$ parties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01365

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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