Exponentially decreasing critical detection efficiency for any Bell inequality

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Main Authors: Miklin, Nikolai, Chaturvedi, Anubhav, Bourennane, Mohamed, Pawłowski, Marcin, Cabello, Adán
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author Miklin, Nikolai
Chaturvedi, Anubhav
Bourennane, Mohamed
Pawłowski, Marcin
Cabello, Adán
author_facet Miklin, Nikolai
Chaturvedi, Anubhav
Bourennane, Mohamed
Pawłowski, Marcin
Cabello, Adán
contents We address the problem of closing the detection efficiency loophole in Bell experiments, which is crucial for real-world applications. Every Bell inequality has a critical detection efficiency $η$ that must be surpassed to avoid the detection loophole. Here, we propose a general method for reducing the critical detection efficiency of any Bell inequality to arbitrary low values. This is accomplished by entangling two particles in $N$ orthogonal subspaces (e.g., $N$ degrees of freedom) and conducting $N$ Bell tests in parallel. Furthermore, the proposed method is based on the introduction of penalized $N$-product (PNP) Bell inequalities, for which the so-called simultaneous measurement loophole is closed, and the maximum value for local hidden-variable theories is simply the $N$th power of the one of the Bell inequality initially considered. We show that, for the PNP Bell inequalities, the critical detection efficiency decays exponentially with $N$. The strength of our method is illustrated with a detailed study of the PNP Bell inequalities resulting from the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality.
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Miklin, Nikolai
Chaturvedi, Anubhav
Bourennane, Mohamed
Pawłowski, Marcin
Cabello, Adán
Quantum Physics
We address the problem of closing the detection efficiency loophole in Bell experiments, which is crucial for real-world applications. Every Bell inequality has a critical detection efficiency $η$ that must be surpassed to avoid the detection loophole. Here, we propose a general method for reducing the critical detection efficiency of any Bell inequality to arbitrary low values. This is accomplished by entangling two particles in $N$ orthogonal subspaces (e.g., $N$ degrees of freedom) and conducting $N$ Bell tests in parallel. Furthermore, the proposed method is based on the introduction of penalized $N$-product (PNP) Bell inequalities, for which the so-called simultaneous measurement loophole is closed, and the maximum value for local hidden-variable theories is simply the $N$th power of the one of the Bell inequality initially considered. We show that, for the PNP Bell inequalities, the critical detection efficiency decays exponentially with $N$. The strength of our method is illustrated with a detailed study of the PNP Bell inequalities resulting from the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality.
title Exponentially decreasing critical detection efficiency for any Bell inequality
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11726