Quasi-Bell inequalities from symmetrized products of noncommuting qubit observables

DOI10.1063/1.4983918zbMATH Open1364.81020arXiv1509.08539OpenAlexW3103097309MaRDI QIDQ5738696FDOQ5738696

Authors: Omar E. Gamel, Graham Fleming 

Publication date: 12 June 2017

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

Abstract: Noncommuting observables cannot be simultaneously measured, however, under local hidden variable models, they must simultaneously hold premeasurement values, implying the existence of a joint probability distribution. We study the joint distributions of noncommuting observables on qubits, with possible criteria of positivity and the Fr'echet bounds limiting the joint probabilities, concluding that the latter may be negative. We use symmetrization, justified heuristically and then more carefully via the Moyal characteristic function, to find the quantum operator corresponding to the product of noncommuting observables. This is then used to construct Quasi-Bell inequalities, Bell inequalities containing products of noncommuting observables, on two qubits. These inequalities place limits on local hidden variable models that define joint probabilities for noncommuting observables. We find Quasi-Bell inequalities have a quantum to classical violation as high as $frac32$, higher than conventional Bell inequalities. The result demonstrates the theoretical importance of noncommutativity in the nonlocality of quantum mechanics, and provides an insightful generalization of Bell inequalities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08539

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65)

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