Hardy's non-locality paradox and possibilistic conditions for non-locality

DOI10.1007/S10701-012-9640-1zbMATH Open1247.81015arXiv1105.1819OpenAlexW3100617139WikidataQ62041808 ScholiaQ62041808MaRDI QIDQ436952FDOQ436952

Authors: Shane Mansfield, Tobias Fritz 

Publication date: 17 July 2012

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hardy's non-locality paradox is a proof without inequalities showing that certain non-local correlations violate local realism. It is `possibilistic' in the sense that one only distinguishes between possible outcomes (positive probability) and impossible outcomes (zero probability). Here we show that Hardy's paradox is quite universal: in any (2,2,l) or (2,k,2) Bell scenario, the occurence of Hardy's paradox is a necessary and sufficient condition for possibilistic non-locality. In particular, it subsumes all ladder paradoxes. This universality of Hardy's paradox is not true more generally: we find a new `proof without inequalities' in the (2,3,3) scenario that can witness non-locality even for correlations that do not display the Hardy paradox. We discuss the ramifications of our results for the computational complexity of recognising possibilistic non-locality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1819

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zbMATH Keywords

Bell inequalitynon-localityHardy paradoxpossibilistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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