scholarly journals General Method for Constructing Local Hidden Variable Models for Entangled Quantum States

2016 ◽  
Vol 117 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Cavalcanti ◽  
L. Guerini ◽  
R. Rabelo ◽  
P. Skrzypczyk
2016 ◽  
Vol 117 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavien Hirsch ◽  
Marco Túlio Quintino ◽  
Tamás Vértesi ◽  
Matthew F. Pusey ◽  
Nicolas Brunner

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 1941024
Author(s):  
Danko Georgiev ◽  
Eliahu Cohen

Although regarded today as an important resource in quantum information, nonlocality has yielded over the years many conceptual conundrums. Among the latter are nonlocal aspects of single particles which have been of major interest. In this paper, the nonlocality of single quanta is studied in a square nested Mach–Zehnder interferometer with spatially separated detectors using a delayed choice modification of quantum measurement outcomes that depend on the complex-valued weak values. We show that if spacelike separated Bob and Alice are allowed to freely control their quantum devices, the geometry of the setup constrains the local hidden variable models. In particular, hidden signaling and a list of contextual instructions are required to split a quantum state characterized by a positive Wigner function into two quantum states with nonpositive Wigner functions. This implies that local hidden variable models could rely neither on only two hidden variables for position and momentum, nor on simultaneous factorizability of both the hidden probability densities and weights of splitting to reproduce the correct quantum distributions. While our analysis does not fully exclude the existence of nonfactorizable local hidden variable models, it demonstrates that the recently proposed weak values of quantum histories necessitate contextual splitting of prior commitments to measurement outcomes, due to functional dependence on the total Feynman sum that yields the complex-valued quantum probability amplitude for the studied quantum transition. This analysis also highlights the quantum nature of weak measurements.


2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiesław Laskowski ◽  
Marcin Markiewicz ◽  
Tomasz Paterek ◽  
Marcin Wieśniak

Quantum ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavien Hirsch ◽  
Marco Túlio Quintino ◽  
Tamás Vértesi ◽  
Miguel Navascués ◽  
Nicolas Brunner

We consider the problem of reproducing the correlations obtained by arbitrary local projective measurements on the two-qubit Werner stateρ=v|ψ−⟩⟨ψ−|+(1−v)14via a local hidden variable (LHV) model, where|ψ−⟩denotes the singlet state. We show analytically that these correlations are local forv=999×689×10−6cos2⁡(π/50)≃0.6829. In turn, as this problem is closely related to a purely mathematical one formulated by Grothendieck, our result implies a new bound on the Grothendieck constantKG(3)≤1/v≃1.4644. We also present a LHV model for reproducing the statistics of arbitrary POVMs on the Werner state forv≃0.4553. The techniques we develop can be adapted to construct LHV models for other entangled states, as well as bounding other Grothendieck constants.


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