Hierarchy of the nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence and Bell nonlocality

Abstract

Quantum coherence and nonlocality capture the nature of quantumness from different aspects. For the two-qubit states with a diagonal correlation matrix, we prove strictly a hierarchy between the nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence (NAQC) and Bell nonlocality by showing geometrically that the NAQC created on one qubit by local measurement on another qubit captures quantum correlation which is stronger than Bell nonlocality. For general states, our numerical results present strong evidence that this hierarchy may still hold. So the NAQC states form a subset of the states that can exhibit Bell nonlocality. We further propose a measure of NAQC that can be used for a quantitative study of it in bipartite states.