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Local Hidden Variable Theories for Quantum States

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

While all bipartite pure entangled states violate some Bell inequality, the relationship between entanglement and non-locality for mixed quantum states is not well understood. We introduce a simple and efficient algorithmic approach for the problem of constructing local hidden variable theories for quantum states. The method is based on constructing a so-called symmetric quasi-extension of the quantum state that gives rise to a local hidden variable model with a certain number of settings for the observers Alice and Bob.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0210053,
  title  = {Local Hidden Variable Theories for Quantum States},
  author = {Barbara M. Terhal and Andrew C. Doherty and David Schwab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0210053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages Revtex; v2 contains substantial changes, a strengthened main theorem and more references