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Lower-bounding entanglement with nonlocality in a general Bell's scenario

Quantum Physics 2026-04-21 v2

Abstract

Understanding the quantitative relation between entanglement and Bell nonlocality is a long-standing open problem of fundamental and practical interest. Here, we tackle this problem in a general Bell scenario. {We observe that lying in the center of quantifying these properties are two minimal distances: one from a state to separable states (entanglement), and the other from a correlation to local correlations (nonlocality).} We find that these two distances can be related to each other -- the minimal correlation distance provides a lower bound for the minimal state distance, which allows us to derive nontrivial bounds on many entanglement measures with an arbitrary nonlocal correlation. Moreover, with the on-hand structural knowledge of entanglement and nonlocality in the (n,2,2)(n, 2, 2) Bell scenario, we refine our estimate significantly.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02588,
  title  = {Lower-bounding entanglement with nonlocality in a general Bell's scenario},
  author = {Liang-Liang Sun and Xiang Zhou and Zhen-Peng Xu and Sixia Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02588},
  year   = {2026}
}