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Bell's theorem for general N-qubit states

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We derive a single general Bell inequality which is a necessary and sufficient condition for the correlation function for N particles to be describable in a local and realistic picture, for the case in which measurements on each particle can be chosen between two arbitrary dichotomic observables. We also derive a necessary and sufficient condition for an arbitrary N-qubit mixed state to violate this inequality. This condition is a generalization and reformulation of the Horodeccy family condition for two qubits.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0102039,
  title  = {Bell's theorem for general N-qubit states},
  author = {Marek Zukowski and Caslav Brukner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0102039},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, journal version