Do All Pure Entangled States Violate Bell’s Inequalities for Correlation Functions?

Marek Żukowski, Časlav Brukner, Wiesław Laskowski, and Marcin Wieśniak
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 210402 – Published 9 May 2002
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Abstract

Any pure entangled state of two particles violates a Bell inequality for two-particle correlation functions (Gisin’s theorem). We show that there exist pure entangled N>2 qubit states that do not violate any Bell inequality for N particle correlation functions for experiments involving two dichotomic observables per local measuring station. We also find that Mermin-Ardehali-Belinskii-Klyshko inequalities may not always be optimal for refutation of local realistic description.

  • Received 18 December 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.210402

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Marek Żukowski1, Časlav Brukner2, Wiesław Laskowski3, and Marcin Wieśniak3

  • 1Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej i Astrofizyki, Uniwersytet Gdański, PL-80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
  • 2Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria
  • 3Wydział Matematyki i Fizyki, Uniwersytet Gdański, PL-80-952 Gdańsk, Poland

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Vol. 88, Iss. 21 — 27 May 2002

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