Maximal violation of a bipartite three-setting, two-outcome Bell inequality using infinite-dimensional quantum systems

Károly F. Pál, Tamás Vértesi

Physical Review A · 2010 · 170 citations · 38 references

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The I3322 inequality is the simplest bipartite two‑outcome Bell inequality beyond CHSH, involving three two‑outcome measurements per party, and unlike CHSH, its maximal quantum violation has not yet been achieved with finite‑dimensional systems. The paper introduces a family of measurement operators and states that attain the maximal quantum value of the I3322 inequality. These operators and states are defined in an infinite‑dimensional Hilbert space, and an efficient iterative algorithm is employed to compute the quantum maximum for arbitrary two‑outcome Bell inequalities. The authors conjecture that finite‑dimensional systems cannot reach the true quantum maximum, and their algorithm enabled the maximal violation for I3322 while improving bounds for several other bipartite two‑outcome inequalities with up to five settings per party.

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The ${I}_{3322}$ inequality is the simplest bipartite two-outcome Bell inequality beyond the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality, consisting of three two-outcome measurements per party. In the case of the CHSH inequality the maximal quantum violation can already be attained with local two-dimensional quantum systems; however, there is no such evidence for the ${I}_{3322}$ inequality. In this paper a family of measurement operators and states is given which enables us to attain the maximum quantum value in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Further, it is conjectured that our construction is optimal in the sense that measuring finite-dimensional quantum systems is not enough to achieve the true quantum maximum. We also describe an efficient iterative algorithm for computing quantum maximum of an arbitrary two-outcome Bell inequality in any given Hilbert space dimension. This algorithm played a key role in obtaining our results for the ${I}_{3322}$ inequality, and we also applied it to improve on our previous results concerning the maximum quantum violation of several bipartite two-outcome Bell inequalities with up to five settings per party.

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