A Tractable Protocol for Detection-Loophole-Free Bell Tests over Long Distances
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| author | Alwehaibi, Yazeed K. Mer, Ewan Machado, Gerard J. Yu, Shang Walmsley, Ian A. Patel, Raj B. |
| author_facet | Alwehaibi, Yazeed K. Mer, Ewan Machado, Gerard J. Yu, Shang Walmsley, Ian A. Patel, Raj B. |
| contents | Certifying genuine nonclassical correlations over long distances is crucial for device-independent (DI) quantum information protocols. However, in photonic platforms this remains technologically challenging due to photon loss, which opens the detection-loophole, rendering violations increasingly difficult for less efficient detectors. A well-known strategy to mitigate this involves using non-maximally entangled states, which Eberhard showed can tolerate lower detection efficiencies. However, existing proposals and demonstrations have been limited to short distances, as their success rates scale linearly with channel transmittance. Here, we propose a protocol to herald a tunable entangled state between distant users that achieves a post-selection-free Bell inequality violation at the Eberhard limit. We identify the loss independence of the vacuum component amplitude of the prepared state as the source of this enhancement. Notably, our scheme requires only quantum interference at a central station, followed by the detection of a single photon, preserving the optimal square-root scaling with channel transmittance. Our approach provides greater loss-tolerance in entanglement distribution, bringing long-distance DI applications closer to practical implementation. |
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| spellingShingle | A Tractable Protocol for Detection-Loophole-Free Bell Tests over Long Distances Alwehaibi, Yazeed K. Mer, Ewan Machado, Gerard J. Yu, Shang Walmsley, Ian A. Patel, Raj B. Quantum Physics Certifying genuine nonclassical correlations over long distances is crucial for device-independent (DI) quantum information protocols. However, in photonic platforms this remains technologically challenging due to photon loss, which opens the detection-loophole, rendering violations increasingly difficult for less efficient detectors. A well-known strategy to mitigate this involves using non-maximally entangled states, which Eberhard showed can tolerate lower detection efficiencies. However, existing proposals and demonstrations have been limited to short distances, as their success rates scale linearly with channel transmittance. Here, we propose a protocol to herald a tunable entangled state between distant users that achieves a post-selection-free Bell inequality violation at the Eberhard limit. We identify the loss independence of the vacuum component amplitude of the prepared state as the source of this enhancement. Notably, our scheme requires only quantum interference at a central station, followed by the detection of a single photon, preserving the optimal square-root scaling with channel transmittance. Our approach provides greater loss-tolerance in entanglement distribution, bringing long-distance DI applications closer to practical implementation. |
| title | A Tractable Protocol for Detection-Loophole-Free Bell Tests over Long Distances |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05048 |