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Phys. Rev. A 74, 062109 (2006) [8 pages]

Bell inequality with an arbitrary number of settings and its applications

Koji Nagata,1,2 Wieslaw Laskowski,1 and Tomasz Paterek1,3
1Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej i Astrofizyki, Uniwersytet Gdanski, PL-80-952 Gdansk, Poland
2National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukuikita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
3The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Received 16 January 2006; revised 6 June 2006; published 18 December 2006

Based on a geometrical argument introduced by Zukowski, a new multisetting Bell inequality is derived, for the scenario in which many parties make measurements on two-level systems. This generalizes and unifies some previous results. Moreover, a necessary and sufficient condition for the violation of this inequality is presented. It turns out that the class of nonseparable states which do not admit local realistic description is extended when compared to the two-setting inequalities. However, supporting the conjecture of Peres, quantum states with positive partial transposes with respect to all subsystems do not violate the inequality. Additionally, we follow a general link between Bell inequalities and communication complexity problems, and present a quantum protocol linked with the inequality, which outperforms the best classical protocol.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062109
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062109
PACS: 03.65.Ud; 03.65.Ca; 03.67.Mn
  • 03.65.Ud
    Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.)
  • 03.65.Ca
    Formalism in quantum mechanics
  • 03.67.Mn
    Quantum entanglement production, characterization, and manipulation
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: Bell theorem, communication complexity, protocols, quantum communication

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