Strict detector-efficiency bounds for n-site Clauser-Horne inequalities

Jan-Åke Larsson and Jason Semitecolos
Phys. Rev. A 63, 022117 – Published 18 January 2001
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Abstract

An analysis of detector-efficiency in many-site Clauser-Horne inequalities is presented for the case of perfect visibility. It is shown that there is a violation of the presented n-site Clauser-Horne inequalities if and only if the efficiency is greater than n/(2n1). Thus, for a two-site two-setting experiment there are no quantum-mechanical predictions that violate local realism unless the efficiency is greater than 23. Second, there are n-site experiments for which the quantum-mechanical predictions violate local realism whenever the efficiency exceeds 12.

  • Received 5 June 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.022117

©2001 American Physical Society

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Jan-Åke Larsson1,2,* and Jason Semitecolos2,†

  • 1Matematiska Institutionen, Linköpings Universitet, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
  • 2Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom

  • *Electronic address: jalar@mai.liu.se
  • Electronic address: jts@qubit.org

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Vol. 63, Iss. 2 — February 2001

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