Hardy is (almost) everywhere: Nonlocality without inequalities for almost all entangled multipartite states

نویسندگان

  • Samson Abramsky
  • Carmen M. Constantin
  • Shenggang Ying
چکیده

We show that all n-qubit entangled states, with the exception of tensor products of single-qubit and bipartite maximally-entangled states, admit Hardy-type proofs of non-locality without inequalities or probabilities. More precisely, we show that for all such states, there are local, one-qubit observables such that the resulting probability tables are logically contextual in the sense of Abramsky and Brandenburger, this being the general form of the Hardy-type property. Moreover, our proof is constructive: given a state, we show how to produce the witnessing local observables. In fact, we give an algorithm to do this. Although the algorithm is reasonably straightforward, its proof of correctness is non-trivial. A further striking feature is that we show that n+2 local observables suffice to witness the logical contextuality of any n-qubit state: two each for two for the parties, and one each for the remaining n− 2 parties.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Comput.

دوره 250  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016