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Bounding Large-Scale Bell Inequalities

Quantum Physics 2025-06-16 v2

Abstract

Bell inequalities are an important tool for studying non-locality, however quickly become computationally intractable as the system size grows. We consider a novel method for finding an upper bound for the quantum violation of such inequalities by combining the NPA hierarchy, the method of alternating projections, and the memory-efficient optimisation algorithm L-BFGS. Whilst our method may not give the tightest upper bound possible, it often does so several orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art solvers, with minimal memory usage, thus allowing solutions to problems that would otherwise be intractable. We benchmark using the well-studied I3322 inequality as well as a more general large-scale randomized inequality RXX22. For randomized inequalities with 130 inputs either side (a first-level moment matrix of size 261x261), our method is ~100x faster than both MOSEK and SCS whilst giving a bound only ~2% above the optimum.

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@article{arxiv.2412.08532,
  title  = {Bounding Large-Scale Bell Inequalities},
  author = {Luke Mortimer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08532},
  year   = {2025}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:31:12.930Z