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Arbitrarily small amount of measurement independence is sufficient to manifest quantum nonlocality
Gilles Pütz1, Denis Rosset1, Tomer Jack Barnea1
1Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
Abstract:
The use of Bell's theorem in any application or experiment relies on the assumption of free choice or, more precisely, measurement independence, meaning that the measurements can be chosen freely. Here, we prove that even in the simplest Bell test-one involving 2 parties each performing 2 binary-outcome measurements-an arbitrarily small amount of measurement independence is sufficient to manifest quantum nonlocality. To this end, we introduce the notion of measurement dependent locality and show that the corresponding correlations form a convex polytope. These correlations can thus be characterized efficiently, e.g., using a finite set of Bell-like inequalities-an observation that enables the systematic study of quantum nonlocality and related applications under limited measurement independence.
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