Maximum nonlocality in the (3,2,2) scenario

Sheila López-Rosa, Zhen-Peng Xu, and Adán Cabello
Phys. Rev. A 94, 062121 – Published 27 December 2016

Abstract

We identify the simplest combinations of entanglement and incompatibility giving the maximum quantum violation for each of the 46 classes of tight Bell inequalities for the (3,2,2) scenario, i.e., three parties, two measurements per party, and two outcomes per measurement. This allows us to classify the maximum quantum nonlocality according to the simplest resources needed to achieve it. We show that entanglement and incompatibility only produce maximum nonlocality when they are combined in specific ways. For each entanglement class there is, in most cases, just one incompatibility class leading to maximum nonlocality. We also identify two interesting cases. We show that the maximum quantum violation of Śliwa inequality 23 only occurs when the third party measures the identity, so nonlocality cannot increase when we add a third party to the bipartite case. Almost quantum correlations predict that adding a new party increases nonlocality. This points out that either almost quantum correlations violate a fundamental principle or that there is a form of tripartite entanglement which quantum theory cannot account for. The other interesting case is the maximum quantum violation of Śliwa inequality 26, which, like the Mermin inequality, requires maximum incompatibility for all parties. In contrast, it requires a specific entangled state which has the same tripartite negativity as the W state.

  • Received 14 November 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.062121

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

General Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Sheila López-Rosa1,*, Zhen-Peng Xu2,1,†, and Adán Cabello1,‡

  • 1Departamento de Física Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
  • 2Theoretical Physics Division, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China

  • *slopezrosa@us.es
  • zhenpengxu@us.es
  • adan@us.es

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Vol. 94, Iss. 6 — December 2016

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