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Robust CHSH Self-Testing with Finite-Energy GKP States

Quantum Physics 2026-08-11 v1

Abstract

We present a full-oscillator analysis of a finite-energy GKP CHSH test whose observed score yields robust Bell-pair self-testing. Periodically binned position and momentum give the Pauli settings, while a fixed binary coarse-graining of photon number modulo four and its displaced conjugate realize the tilted settings. For a number-filtered GKP source, we retain the finite codeword overlap, define the measurements on all photon-number sectors, and compute the physical correlations without logical post-corrections. With the canonical ideal-logical displacement d=πd=\sqrt{\pi}, the CHSH value exceeds the local bound above 4.564.56 dB of per-peak squeezing, and Kaniewski's extractability bound becomes nontrivial above 5.025.02 dB. Calibrating only dd using an independently characterized finite-energy parameter lowers these model thresholds to 4.214.21 dB and 4.584.58 dB, respectively; at 1212 dB, it raises the score from 2.694862.69486 to 2.788582.78858 and the corresponding target-state overlap bound from 0.907580.90758 to 0.972430.97243. This calibration is fixed before Bell-test data are collected. The displacement activates the odd modulo-four sectors, so their fixed a priori assignments are a genuine finite-energy component. The large gain is specific to the deterministic phase-bit coarse-graining; independently calibrating the one-bit POVM with randomized odd-sector outcomes gives only a much smaller improvement. These are honest-model predictions, not loss, detection-efficiency, or finite-sample thresholds. In an experiment, a device-independent guarantee for an extracted Bell pair follows by inserting a confidence lower bound on the observed CHSH score into the self-testing theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2608.11122,
  title  = {Robust CHSH Self-Testing with Finite-Energy GKP States},
  author = {Farzin Salek and Masahito Hayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.11122},
  year   = {2026}
}