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Tight Bound on Randomness for Violating the CHSH Inequality

Quantum Physics 2017-03-29 v2

Abstract

Free will (or randomness) has been studied to achieve loophole-free Bell's inequality test and to provide device-independent quantum key distribution security proofs. The required randomness such that a local hidden variable model (LHVM) can violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality has been studied, but a tight bound has not been proved for a practical case that i) the device settings of the two parties in the Bell test are independent; and ii) the device settings of each party can be correlated or biased across different runs. Using some information theoretic techniques, we prove in this paper a tight bound on the required randomness for this case such that the CHSH inequality can be violated by certain LHVM. Our proof has a clear achievability and converse style. The achievability part is proved using type counting. To prove the converse part, we introduce a concept called profile for a set of binary sequences and study the properties of profiles. Our profile-based converse technique is also of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.1504.05306,
  title  = {Tight Bound on Randomness for Violating the CHSH Inequality},
  author = {Yifeng Teng and Shenghao Yang and Siwei Wang and Mingfei Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05306},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages

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