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Hardy is (almost) everywhere: nonlocality without inequalities for almost all entangled multipartite states

Quantum Physics 2017-02-22 v1

Abstract

We show that all nn-qubit entangled states, with the exception of tensor products of single-qubit and bipartite maximally-entangled states, admit Hardy-type proofs of non-locality without inequalities or probabilities. More precisely, we show that for all such states, there are local, one-qubit observables such that the resulting probability tables are logically contextual in the sense of Abramsky and Brandenburger, this being the general form of the Hardy-type property. Moreover, our proof is constructive: given a state, we show how to produce the witnessing local observables. In fact, we give an algorithm to do this. Although the algorithm is reasonably straightforward, its proof of correctness is non-trivial. A further striking feature is that we show that n+2n+2 local observables suffice to witness the logical contextuality of any nn-qubit state: two each for two for the parties, and one each for the remaining n2n-2 parties.

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@article{arxiv.1506.01365,
  title  = {Hardy is (almost) everywhere: nonlocality without inequalities for almost all entangled multipartite states},
  author = {Samson Abramsky and Carmen M. Constantin and Shenggang Ying},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01365},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages. Submitted for publication